Often times when people post things like this it's the opposite in that they think upgrading to a new version of Windows will somehow magically fix underlying problems, but same as if you go in the other direction, depending on the problem it might make matters even worse. I see you've made a large number of posts, so if you could just provide a brief summary of the key issues, it might be easier to pick out a pattern. Unless we're talking about a driver issue or one of those exceedingly rare instances of a truly incompatible program, changing from one OS revision to another is not likely going to solve your problem(s).
I have had so much trouble with Windows 8.1 that I have decided to go back to 8 now I have not got a recovery partition on my disc and I didn't make a recovery disc when I had W8 installed, as this will be the fourth installation this year due to W8.1(takes time to get through that its crap) I wondered if any of you have any tips to somehow save as much of the detail as possible so as to make the process as painless as possible, I know I am going to have to reformat the c drive but as I have had a policy of saving any data onto external drives that part will be okay, I have checked the web for help and it appears that it is not possible to just roll back.
the reason for all this is that many programs will just not install and I have paid money to Microsoft to trawl though my computer to prove it, so any advice would be helpful

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