downloading pdfs issue

It's Opera the browser,to whom do you think should complain?? Stardock?? 

Have you allowed or installed any 'download helpers' or 'accelerators' by chance?

Well gee there Gaspershooters, ElanaAhova was looking for some help from the WinCustomize community.

If she wanted some Drama for her Opera she would have said so.

In any case, this sounds like some sort problem coming from some other software affecting Opera. 

1.  You may need to do a clean install.

2.  Windows 10 sometimes mis-behaves a bit when updates are pending install and thus causing interference with other programs.

Good luck getting it sorted.  I do not use Opera but maybe someone in the Community will see this and have some insight as to what is going on.

I realize this doesn't really help you. I use to use Opera all the time. Had a few different problems and was was downloading pdf files. I do download a few each month. I do all my downloading now with Chrome and it works great each time.

As a suggestion if you don't get this situation solved. Use your Opera for everything you like but use Chrome when you want to download any pdf's. I have gotten so use to Chrome I ended up actually getting rid of Opera all together.

Do as Dave Bax suggests Elana. Chrome has no problem with downloading PDFs. I use Chrome exclusively because most other browsers, including FF, have problems with one thing or another, in my experience anyway. I once tried to dl a PDF for a friend to print it out. Downloading was no problem but opening it to print was one big headache. Edge couldn't handle it, nor IE (tried both), but Chrome breezed through it with no problem. 

Haven't added any helpers to opera. (Opera site had no help either - was part of the google/bing search I did.)

Appreciate advice you have given.  Will switch to another browser for the PDFs.  Thanks again,