blender preference bug

So i was modeling and after a while blender started to slow down so i decided to ajust the user preferences and it crashed. I thought ok lets do that again and …crash. Three more times i tried and crashes so I’m thinking if anyone has a work around for this it would be here. Any help would be awesome.

I have seen that happen on some student machines - but not all. Try a different (newer) build, and see if that will do the trick. In the case of one student it was due to older video drivers.