I cannot get past "collecting 'whatever package name' " on ANY python package I am trying to install

I cannot get past "collecting 'whatever package name' " on any python package I am trying to install..

I have installed python 3.5 with pip 7.1.2

This is what I have tried..

pip install telethon and.. python -m pip install telethon

Just stops on Collecting Telethon.. No downloading after that..

Then I tried: pip -vvv install -U telethon --user

Results are:

C:\Users\ACER>pip -vvv install -U telethon --user
Collecting telethon
  Getting page https://pypi.python.org/simple/telethon/
  Starting new HTTPS connection (1): pypi.python.org

C:\Users\ACER>

I tried: pip install scrapy python -m pip install scrapy

Same thing!! Just stops at collecting scrapy.. No downloading after that..

I have downloaded the tarball files: pip install scrapy-master.tar.gz & pip install Telethon-1.16.0.tar.gz full of errors when tring to install them locally..

All above is from CMD.. Then I have tried to install them directly from the repository via PyCharm. I get..

Failed to install package 'telethon'
Executed command:
pip install --user --index-url https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon/ telethon==1.16.0
Error occured:
Non-zero exit code (-1073741819)

Proposed solution:
Try to run this command from the system terminal. Make sure that you use the correct version of 'pip' installed for your Python interpreter located at 'C:\Users\ACER\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\python.exe'.

Command output:
Collecting telethon==1.16.0

I do not know whatelse to do to get basically ANY python package to install after "collecting 'whatever package name'" However I am really tring to get Telethon installed..

Thanks in advance..