Windows 8 - New Views, Customizations and Configurations

So after you log on that's your first view. It's your start menu.

You can customize this view. If you right click in one of the shortcuts you will have some options. Right click on Stocks and you will have the option to make it smaller, to unpin it from there or to uninstall it.

If you select to make it smaller it will look like this:

To go to your Desktop, just click on the Desktop shortcut.

To go back to the previous screen (the start menu) guess what? Click on the Start Menu icon.

There are some new looks in the explorer windows. Now you have some tabs with commands available.
The picture below you can see it's the Home tab of the Libraries node.

Now that's the Home tab of the Computer node.

If you want to put a picture to your profile, first put the picture you want in C:\Users\Username\User Tiles then in the start menu click on your user name and click on Change user tile.

That will take you to the Control Panel. In Personalize, click on User Tile, browse and select the picture.

Now when you go back to the Home Page (start menu) you can see your picture displayed.

If you can't find out how to go back just move your mouse to the left bottom corner and a list with some options will show up. Click on Start.

Now let's create a Picture password. Pretty cool feature. Click on Control Panel, Users and Create a picture password.

Type your password and click on Choose picture.

Select a picture and then click on Use this picture.

Now there's a 3 steps where you have to make a dot, line or circle in the picture. Make sure you remember the direction you made the lines or circles. After you confirm what you have done in the first 3 steps you should get a Congratulations screen. Now you can use the picture password next time you log in.

After you install applications, if the application places a shortcut to the start menu, it will be available for you in the far right of the Home Screen (start menu). You can drag it to any place you want.