OK, I originally installed by upgrading from Windows 7, I did a PC refresh (the one that isn't supposed to erase files) - but it did erase all my programs and gave me a fresh windows 8,, had to do the whole setup process again, however I did keep my files on the hard drive,,
Windows Store and everything else seems to be working now, I suppose it was some setting somewhere that was conflicting with getting the apps to open.
Now to just have Logmein play nice with Windows 8 and I'll be set