Recomendation to new users of Window 8.1

Your computer died and you bought a new computer with Windows 8.1. You
turned it on and are confronted with a screen full of advertising icons.

It would be my recommendation for a new user to do a couple of things.

When the computer comes up and you are presented with the Start screen,
find each of the programs you use routinely use, right click on it's
icon. When the menu pops up at the bottom of the screen click "Pin to
Taskbar". You may have to right click the arrow in the lower right, to
get the apps. You first pin you apps to the Start screen as you pin
items to the Taskbar above. You must then pin them to the Taskbar from
the start screen.

When you get all of the programs you want on the Taskbar, click the
desktop icon, and immediately Right Click the Taskbar at the bottom of
the Desktop screen, select Properties, and in the Navigation tab, Check
"When I sign on or close all apps on a screen go to the Desktop instead
of Start" Your computer will then be useable and function with all of
the windows you were use to in earlier versions of Windows.

After you installed your own programs, go to the Start Screen find the
program and pin it to the Taskbar. If you can not find it in on the
Start Screen, click the down arrow in the lower right of the Start
Screen and find it on the Apps screen, You first pin it to start and
then to the Taskbar.