In regard to the post by Shane..... As a former DNS Administrator for the company I worked for before retirement, I had my doubts that this would resolve my problem. In my case I was using 3 DNS servers (205.152.132.23, 68.94.157.1 and 205.152.37.23) that are the fastest and most reliable public DNS servers for the area in which I live. For grins I did changes them to 8.8.8.8 and 8.4.4.4 but it didn't make any difference. I also ran the troubleshooter for connecting to the internet and the troubleshooter for my NIC and nothing was found. Basically I can download mail to Outlook 2010, I can visit any website that I want and I can download updates to programs I have installed on my PC. To me this 0x824402f error is either the correct error code and there's some other issue that's denying me access to the server or the error code being reported is not the real error that's taking place and I'm chasing a phantom. Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
In regard to the post by Boggin.... Someone else pointed to a .NET problem and suggested that I needed to go into control panel and remove v4 of .NET but apparently, Microsoft has included the framework in the Windows 10 build so it no longer shows up as something that can be removed.