CCleaner deletes Chrome exe

I've used CCleaner flawlessly on many computers for at least a year, and now it decides to bite back. Whenever I run it on my computer, which is running Window 7 x64, it deletes Google Chrome's exe, or it messes with the shortcuts somehow. If I run CCleaner, and they try to click on the chrome icon, it says "This shortcut is linking to a missing file. Do you want to delete this shortcut?". It does this to the desktop icon and the icon in All programs. It's a pain to reinstall Chrome every time I run CCleaner, so until the issue is fixed I cannot use CCleaner. Everything is updated to the latest version, CCleaner started doing this maybe 3 updates ago.

Are you running registry or just cleaning.

if just cleaning

  1. reinstall chrome (once more sorry)
  2. uncheck everything in ccleaner on both Windows and applications tab
  3. check only the first item on the windows page (you don't actually have to start with the first item you can try the ones you think are the likely cause first if you want/have a guess)
  4. clean
  5. test chrome
  6. if chrome still runs uncheck that item in ccleaner and check the next one
  7. repeat steps 4-6 until you find what mark is messing up chrome (test both windows and application tabs)
  8. report back here

if registry please follow the advice in my signature