When Cindy got her new laptop it had Win 8 on it and was totally unintelligible. I couldn't even find where control panel was located so I could solve the problems I had. I paid a few bucks (literally) for a program called Start 8 that makes Win 8 look like XP or win 7. You get your Start button back so you can find the programs on your machine and it makes Win 8 almost bearable..