Rarely use internet explorer, but ccleaner seems to hang when internet explorer history is selected for cleaning. The only work around found is to not select explorer history.
Currently using version 5.51.
It's been a problem for a while, it was caused by changes that Microsoft made to IE.
As you've found the solution is not to select Internet Explorer History for cleaning, unless you use IE frequently.
If you do want to clean it occasionally you can right click on the unselected category and clean it from the small menu that pops up.