Upgrade to 8.1 causes windows explorer to crash constantly

Beewee

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Sep 8, 2013
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my problem is that in order to get the latest amd drivers i need to upgrade to 8.1 but everytime i upgrade to 8.1 from the store it, once installed 8.1's windows explorer will crash making it unusable. so ive been refreshing to 8. is there a way to upgrade to 8.1 and prevent this?