ccleaner insists that my Putty x64 is 0.80 and wants to update it to 0.81
HOWEVER, I have this installed
PuTTY
Release 0.83
Build platform: 64-bit x86 Windows
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in appdata there are very old entries e.g.
C:\Users\carua\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\PuTTY (64-bit)>dir
Directory of C:\Users\carua\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\PuTTY (64-bit)
01/11/2025 05:28 AM .
04/25/2025 03:26 PM ..
11/27/2022 06:16 PM 975 Pageant.lnk
11/27/2022 06:16 PM 963 PSFTP.lnk
11/27/2022 06:16 PM 915 PuTTY Manual.lnk
11/27/2022 06:16 PM 927 PuTTY Web Site.lnk
11/27/2022 06:16 PM 1,044 PuTTY.lnk
11/27/2022 06:16 PM 982 PuTTYgen.lnk
6 File(s) 5,806 bytes
2 Dir(s) 327,022,133,248 bytes free
there is a more up to date file C:\Users\carua\AppData\Local\PUTTY.RND
Apparently the registry has no version details
Why is CCleaner unable to detect the correct version?