Windows 10: Downloading Hangs Firefox, Other Programs involved

Hey all,

I've been searching around for answers to this one but can't seem to find what would create these symptoms:

I tried to download a photo from a stock photo site through their download link, which I've done hundreds of times.

It downloaded almost all the way then Firefox hung. After ending task and retrying a few times, it kept doing it. So I cleared my temp files, etc and refreshed Firefox. Same issue. Firefox itself works just fine, but it will hang if I download. It actually DOES download the file, but it hangs before it says its finished.

So on restarting the computer my Skype shows up as basically a white screen. It does log into it (I can see that I have one message) but that's it. I just get the plain white screen. Skype will then hang if I try to close it, forcing an end task.

Opening up ITunes is the same: If I go to the store I get an empty white screen. The program itself seems to work fine in that I can see my locally stored music, play it, etc, but the store is a blank screen.

No error messages or anything.

Some sort if IE browser issue? I don't know enough about it to really get in and dig.

Thanks in advance!

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Windows 10 search bar only allows one letter to be typed

Windows 10 is new on my system and I seem to have a litany of issues that involve browsers also. Just certain browsers- Crome and Opera are fine but Edge and Firefox hang on any login screen. Does anyone have any suggestions. I can't download any Microsoft
stuff because it wants me to login-then hangs. Thanks for the help.

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Can't download Microsoft Solitaire Collection.

Browser (Firefox V47.0.1) doesn't recognize MS Store URL. Here is the error message I get:

"Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because one of the following protocols (ms-windows-store) isn't associated with any program or is not allowed in this context."

This seems different from other questions on the MS Solitaire Collection where the download just hangs. In this case, as you can see, there is an explicit error message related to the
ms-windows-store:// portion of the URL. In fact, some browsers may hang for this while apparently Firefox actually gives an error message. In any case, I'm stumped -- any ideas?

Thanks, Ardy

 

Update:

I tried the in place repair as listed in this thread:

Cortana and Search buttons not working

It has worked!