freezing on chrome

following an update on windows 10, ccleaner freezes and says "chrome needs to close". Then "shall ccleaner force it to close?" Then nothing happens until I start again and hit "cancel" on "chrome needs to close". Ccleaner then does the business but leaves all the chrome stuff alone, (cookies etc.) I have unticked the box in chrome settings about leaving "background" apps running, to no effect.

Even when I first boot up and go straight to ccleaner, it still tells me that chrome needs to close and won't do the business. Registry cleaning is unaffected. What's happening please?

check Task Manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del) to make sure no other Chrome or Google related programs are running.

what is your CC version?

Have downloaded latest free version of ccleaner during this time, have been assured I have "latest version"

"Latest" means nothing. However it's likely chrome is still up in the background, make sure you've read and followed

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=40285