I found that this Cleaner program lockup is caused by an incompatibility with Bitdefender antivirus (in my case Bitdefender Total Security). An old post on the Bitdefender support forum addresses this:
http://forum.bitdefender.com/index.php?showtopic=41995&st=0&p=174047&&do=findComment&comment=174047
One poster reports that a Ccleaner update cleared the issue but I use the latest version of Ccleaner Pro on two machines, a Windows 8.1 and a Windows 7, and on both I have the program lockup. I made the Bitdefender configuration changes recommended in the post (file exclusions) and it fixed the issue - now able to do secure file deletion (1 pass overwrite) with no problems.