Overwhelmed... Just received my Y2P and have a few questions

Right out of the box and when I first turned it on, I had to provide them with my microsoft account in order to complete the initial boot. WHY?!?!? Is there a way to avoid this?
Chrome - the tabs and address bar are TINY, how do I change it?
Each window opened on Chrome opens up at a 100% resolution but my goodness, font is so small. I have to increase the resolution to 200%
What happened to the taskbar on the desktop to switch between tabs and windows?!
I realize there is some sort of taskbarish thing on the left side but it's not the same. I have been having difficulties with that "taskbar" to respond at the first swipe with the pointer. Closing/signing-off apps is a new adventure as there are no Xs on the upper right hand corner. UGH!
Switching to the desktop is no easy feat. Don't know where to find the Control Panel.
I feel this laptop has a huge learning curve and I feel overwhelmed. HELP!!!
With the issues reported and the learning curve involed, I feel I should just move to the macbook air.... sigh!

TxLittleAngel wrote:
Right out of the box and when I first turned it on, I had to provide them with my microsoft account in order to complete the initial boot. WHY?!?!? Is there a way to avoid this?
It's evil. You have to click the "Create a new account" link and then at the bottom of the form for creating an MSN account is a little link that says "Sign in without a Microsoft account" and that will then let you create a basic local account with a username and password and no Microsoft MSN online rubbish.
The "tiny fonts and stuff" issue has been much discussed here. You can change the Windows display scaling to make everything bigger (though some applicaitons still have issues with this) or you can run the display at a lower resolution so that everything is naturally bigger. There are a number of threads on this topic.
Everything else is just standard "Windows 8 is evil how do I get it to behave like old windows??" complaints that everyone has Apparently it IS possible to eventually get used to the Win 8 way of things but boy, is it frustrating at the start. One tip is that from the start screen you can just start typing and it will bring up the apps page and search box and most of everything is still there that you're familliar with (control panel etc.) you just have to search to find it.
There are inexpensive 3rd party utilities (from Stardock etc.) that give you back an old style Start button menu, and in 8.1 you can configure it to boot to the desktop instad of the Metro UI if you choose.
Z.

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1.) It appears as if one can not run a program from the home sreen and have it run in the background while doing other things? Does the IPhone not mutitask at all or verywell?
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Just how would the SIP server connect to the cell carrier 3G network? Do you know of ANY that do??
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hi!
I'm back, I've resolve my probleme and I'm a stupid boy....
I was so hurry to take my ipod that I don't see i need itunes... I've juste seen it when i closed my pc and read carefully the guideline
so youre rigth it was itunes the solutions...
thanks!!
sorry for this stupid question ^_^

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