Did you try it from the commandline? quoting rules are quoting rules

$ dir C:\Program Files
 Volume in drive C is Local Disk
 Volume Serial Number is XXXX-XXXX

 Directory of C:\

File Not Found
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Win32::Unicode with Path::Tiny like Re: links in pathnames under Windows 8

use Path::Tiny qw/ path /;
print "$_\n" for path( 'C:/Program Files' )->children;
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