MSI GT70 20C WIN 8.1 - Slowness - Suicidal

Ever since I've upgraded to Window 8.1 from Window 8 my GT70 20C is never the same.  I bought this laptop for gaming but since my window 8.1 update I've been having the following problems:
- Slow start up (please wait.... for 10+ Min)
- Slow turn off time.  Screen will be off but you can hear the fan and see the processing light flashing
- If computer is idle for 10 min, it automatically turns into sleep mode and it takes about 20 min or so to log back in
- While playing Left 4 Dead 2 - my mouse skips and have no control for for brief 1 second every other 20 seconds or so
- Adobe photoshop - Start up used to be fast less than 7 second to start on the first time but takes longer now
I've download the latest video card driver and there is no help.  I've uninstall Norton Anti-Virus and there is no help.  I've deleted my first account and created a new one that didn't help.  I've changed microsoft login to local login still didn't help.  The most painful part is turning on and off the computer and when idle more than 10min the computer goes to sleep by itself and it wakes up when it wants to... I had to hold the power bottom down to do a force start every time. 
I've read many different blogs and I can't find a way to go back to Window 8.  I never receive a window 8 disk which I thought it should come with the purchase and I didn't even have a product serial key on the bottom of my computer so I can reformat everything back to Window 8. 
I am seriously thinking about to sell this laptop and just build a desktop and install window 7.
Please HELP!

Quote from: gt70usa on 09-December-13, 17:01:01
MSI didn't give me a copy of Window 8 - what do I do? 
I upgraded from XP to Window 8.1 - Do you like Window 7 better?  I never used 7 before but I heard it's the closest thing to XP.  any1?
What do you download with that 100MB+ speed?  hahahah 
There should be an option to rollback to w8.
Windows 8 has proved to deliver more gaming performance than w7 on the same hardware. If you use this laptop for gaming, then don't go to w7. Especially if you are playing Bf4 or any game that gets use of dx11.1

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