ccleaner very slowly cycles through windows temp folder

Greetings,

I am a new forum member but have been using ccleaner for years and it has always worked great. I am running version 4.19.4867 (64-bit) on my win7 64 bit sp1 hp laptop. Each time I begin the analysis it gets to the 23% mark almost immediately and then seems to begin cycling through the same group of files in system temp folder. This lasts at least 40 minutes – sometimes longer, before it eventually completes. My experience is that the analysis used to complete in 2 minutes or less. Something seems to be going on.

I have tried rebooting and a fresh install but it seems to make no difference. I have also noticed that ccleaner seems to think that Chrome is still running but the task manager disagrees. I am using the Avast AV tool and have been for many years as well Never had an issue like this with ccleaner.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

Windows: How many total files and the total size are in your temp folder?

CCleaner: Are you using the secure delete mode?