Win 10 Some programs denied connection?

[mindboggles]

Today I planned on setting Dropbox up on my new machine with Win 10, I used to have it running on Win 7 before that machine died. When I installed and had it running it couldn't access the server, I checked with my anti-virus firewall and even defaulted back to windows but that didn't help.

 

I didn't follow up anymore on that and wanted to check up a few things on Google Earth only to find out that it too wouldn't access it's servers, same story. I fooled around more with the firewalls and re-installations but nothing seemed to help. Did a lot of web searching but only really found others with similar issues and no real concrete fixes.

 

I've got Skype running fine, Firefox runs okay, Steam client, FileZilla, all running fine, so I'm at a little bit of loss to understand why it would be these 2 that are behaving like this.

 

Edit.....After wasting a lot of time on this I finally discovered the offender, MSI and their silly Killer Network Manager.

Edited July 14, 2016 by mindboggles