The taskbar on the desktop works as before, too. You can drop any desktop application (though not Windows 8 apps from the Microsoft Store) onto the taskbar, just as you did in Windows 7. Also, the task manager has been enhanced, and you can now set up your startup items there.

But I digress--those are things to do in your subsequent use of Windows 8. Right now, you've gotten familiar with basic navigation, you've set up networking, and you've created user accounts. There's more to learn, but that alien feeling you first experienced when starting at the active tiles in the Start menu should be fading. It's your PC, so take control.