My mother bought a laptop with win8 and no touch interface. I have been trying to find easy ways to help her use mouse [her favorite tool]. I am very grateful for sysop-dr's suggestions. I can teach these to her with no problem!
I hope MSFT understands that a lot more should have been done to pass on simple ways of moving around -- not even touch could help us find the shutdown location. OMG!!! Sigh. I love win8; I am sorry these little difficulties are giving the OS and MSFT such bad press.