Satellite C55D-A-149 - Windows 8.1 depressingly SLOW

Hi, I was asked by Toshiba USA to post this here as my laptop is an European model.
I recently got this laptop, so it is still new and so is the installation.
The laptop is TOSHIBA SATELLITE C55D-A-149. I realise that this is a budget laptop and the processor is fairly weak. But still it came pre-installed with Windows 8.1 and afaik isnt Windows 8.1 optimised for slow laptops/tablets but mine is performing really poorly.
Startup is slow, file manager is slow, minimizing a window takes forever and so on.
In order to find out where the problem lies I ran a cross platform benchmark on my machine i.e. on Windows and on Ubuntu linux. I used a live CD to run linux without installing it. The benchmark tool used was Geekbench3: http://www.primatelabs.com/geekbench/
The results of the benchmark can be seen from here: http://browser.primatelabs.com/user/87755
And it is clear how lagging Windows 8.1 is.
What is the reason for this very poor performance?
If Windows 8.1 really is the problem would it be better for me to remove this and install Windows 7? But I dont want to lose my genuine copy of 8.1 as this is what ensures the next free Windows 10 upgrade. Is there any way to partition the hard drive and not lose the recovery partition?
What are my options now

Hi
From my point of few the system is muddled up and i would recommend you to reset the Win 8.1 system to the default settings
This is not very complicated but before doing this, I recommend you to backup your personal data.
Microsoft has published short instruction how to do that. Take a look here:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/restore-refresh-reset-pc
I would recommend you to test the first option without affecting the files. In case this does not solve your issue, check the 2nd option: Recovery.

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