And the best Windows 8 advice so far goes to:....
Dualboot Windows 8 with Linux Mint 14 Nadia by AvoidErrors - YouTube
Except that this is way over my head as I am about as untechy as they come. I don't know why I should want a Linux Mint 14 or what it does. I seem to have reasonable aptitude to run any computer program either intuitively or with some rudimentary instruction. But when you start getting into the techie stuff, I'm clueless. Which is why Windows 8 is so user unfriendly to somebody like me.