ccleaner and all downloads stuck 99% ??

Hidemyip sounds like a proxy service, correct? Maybe you should have a look on what the tor network is. Very cool.

Tor: anonymity online

well, i have had this problem as well, but not with any of the above stated apps. I think this is truly an iexplorer.exe problem and sometimes rolls over to explorer.exe. This could be do to a few things if not IE or explorer. A corrupt install, a corrupt hd, or corrupt files. Nevertheless something is corrupt there.
I do not have that constant problem now, but ever since i updated IE8, it wants to constantly troubleshoot itself and close/restart. Usually this is happening with multiple tabs(atleast 3) or at an attempted download(rarely)... but this is pretty random for me. But is not fixed with a simple reboot or even after running an sfc or startup repair (just for the hell of it).

After i did a fresh of 7000, this 99% problem has corrected itself, but i HAVE had it occur on a few occasions still but very minimal, like less than a handful of times during a month old install.

I Have found there to be a few bad clusters/sectors on this harddrive reported by some apps, and not by others, so for me it could be hardware related. Also this 99 problem has occurred once or twice on my lappy tho. I would first test hardware.

How glad am I to find this forum. After mnths of not being able to download anything I find that it could be the hid my IP program which I have. I uninstalled this program and everything is now working fine..thank you.