windows 8 Help needed on redownloading Windows 8.1

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Okay here's my situation

My computer was acting a bit funny and slow, so I decided to do a refresh on it since I had tried clearing cashes, temp files, all that good stuff included in doing a disc clean up as well as virus and malware scans(which came up with nothing).

 

I started by backing up important files on SkyDrive, OneDrive, whatever you want to call it. It's the thing that gives you free space to put files on so you can access them on different devices. I backed up things like my Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird

profiles, which includes all my saved passwords that I cannot for the life of me remember. After backing up everything I needed, I then refreshed my system.

 

 

BIG mistake.

 

I took the updates that popped up, re-downloaded Firefox and Thunderbird, Yahoo and the two virus and malware programs I use.

 

My problems started with just wanting to make my now refreshed system a trusted system again so I can get my stuff off SkyDrive. So I headed to Settings > Change PC Settings > Users. Of course it says that my passwords for apps, websites, and networks won't

sync until I make the PC a trusted PC. Fine yada yada yada. Hence forth I click on the Trust this PC. It took me to the page that gives you the code and waits for you to approve it( I use my cellphone with the Microsoft account app since I always have it near

me). I check the box that says don't asks for a code on this PC and accept the code that was immediately sent to my phone via the app. I went back to the Users settings area and stare at the screen. It still says that I have to make the PC trusted. I clicked

on the Trust this PC link again, went through the process of trusting it again, and after what I thought was a successful trusting, went back to Users. Needless to say by the fifth time of doing this, I was pretty infuriated. By what happened next just makes

the situation worse. It link starts telling me: Visit https://account.live.com/trustdevice on Internet Explorer from the Windows 8 device you would like to trust. after blinking at the screen several times and checking to make sure I was indeed in Internet

Explorer, I copied the link mentioned, pasted it into a new IE browser session and hit enter. Maybe it got confused since I have Firefox downloaded. You can imagine my frustration as repeatedly copied and pasted the link into numerous tabs, still getting the

same exact page. After taking a moment to calm myself to avoid throwing the PC across the room, I restart the system. More updates. FINE. I took the updates and then more updates and after that MORE updates. I have now gotten to the point where the system

is telling me everything is good and there are (finally) no more updates. I go through the trusting process again(because it still says i need to do that) and get the same page I've been getting that says to "Visit https://account.live.com/trustdevice on Internet

Explorer from the Windows 8 device you would like to trust." I AM on Internet Explorer. In attempt to figure out what is wrong, I searched through previous threads. I found one person that said everything fixed it's self when they updated from Windows 8 to

Windows 8.1. OK. Maybe that's the problem. I go to Settings> PC Info. And sure enough, it says that the OS is Windows 8. I am now scratching my head and trying to figure out just HOW do i get Windows 8.1 back on my system since that seems to be the problem

with my not being able to make my PC trusted, which means I can't download the things I need from SkyDrive.

 

I now have more trouble than I started with.

 

 

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