For about 6 months, I've had one computer with Windows 8 at the women's center where I do volunteer work. I found it to be an advantage, because it's our best-equipped computer and I would rather not have our college student interns messing with it. They were scared off by Windows 8, so they left the computer alone - and our graphic artist has had no trouble learning Windows 8.

But we needed an additional computer for the interns, and I bought one with Windows 8 - so now the interns are going to learn Win 8 and my protection of the artist's computer has ended (maybe my buying another computer will encourage the interns to stay off staff computers).

After setting up the computer, I took some time setting up the user profile for the interns. On the "start" menu, I moved all the most-used programs to the left side of the page; and I also pinned those programs on the Taskbar on the desktop. Then I left these instructions:

This computer has Windows 8. Use the Windows Key (Win) to access the "Start" Menu Use Win+D to access the desktop Use Win+C to access the "charms," which control settings and other things like shutdown You can just push "On-Off" button to shut the computer down

If you use those few pointers, Windows 8 is actually very easy to use, and it works very well with a mouse and and all the keyboard shortcuts I've used since Win 95.

-Joe-