CCleaner not seeing %ProgramFiles%

CCleaner for Windows
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It seems that the registry cleaner is getting confused with the %ProgramFiles% variable and flagging any files using this scheme as missing.

For instance in Vista, registry cleaner thinks the file MSAScui.exe located at "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" is missing, but that's not the case. It's in that location on the disk. It's listed correctly in the registry, but when I removed it, Defender didn't launch properly.

There are a few others too, where registry cleaner is saying that any files where their location starts with %ProgramFiles% are missing, but they are all there on the disk.

Manually editing the registry and changing the location from %ProgramFiles% to C:\Program Files eliminates the problem, and registry cleaner sees them fine and doesn't return a "missing" error.

Any thoughts?

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Also, to note that the problem above is in a Vista64 system. It doesn't seem to happen on a Vista32 system.

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Thanks, we'll look into this.