Severe bugs with windows 8.1

I am using the latest version of Flash Player.
1. Firefox won't start anymore. It shows up in task manager as a background process but never actually opens.
2. Any notifications like "You have new apps that can....." freeze when they appear, and hovering over them changes my cursor to the hourglass
3. Sound options in the control panel becomes completely unaccessible.
The only fix is to completely remove flash and re-install an older version. What is causing this? Using Windows 8.1 preview 64-bit.

Here's the kicker.
Windows 8.1 "Preview" is still a beta.
"It's NOT ready for prime time" as the saying goes.
I was conned into installing it when it was first released and it not only KILLED every one of my CS6 apps... it completely disabled my AVG anitvirus. AVG wouldn't update and trying to reinstall it got me an "incompatibility" error.
My ONLY option was to reformat and NOT put that piece of garbage back on. Windows 8 is poo to begin with, 8.1 is worse, and since it's still in a testing stage, NO ONE anywhere will do anything about problems with it, except tell you to report them to Microshaft so they can NOT fix them before they do the final release of 8.1...

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