well despite spending hours and trying to obtain guidance from various websites, finding out you can't uninstall windows without a media recovery disc which I did not have, so tried to create a system recovery file on USB......did not work.......cut a long story short, all I had to do one very simple thing.........enter my windows 8 (that's right I purchased Windows 8 not 8.1) product key code in via 'PC Info' and bingo!Reason why it worked like that is because I was already running windows 8.1 preview pro on the beast (my PC name lol)
I also managed to install Kaspersky anti-virus software so my $80 to acquire it did not go to waste.
The only problem is since I thought I had to uninstall 8.1 preview, I shifted all the important files from C:drive to my E:drive.
I did not even have to that. However because I did, I have lost some dll files and some games won't work now until I relocate them.
Overall I got very frustrated but come out a winner as everything else works fine and I finally have some level of internet security installed.
But I'm glad I'm not an IT tech cuz I would suck at it something chronic