Ron,

Check out Start8 from Stardock software. I've been hearing really great things about this software restoring a "Windows 7" desktop experience to Windows 8 and disabling of some of those touch screen only features. Only $4.99 and it has a free 30 day trial, and can be downloaded from http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/. The scuttlebut I'm hearing from my Microsoft friends is that the lack of a start menu though is likely to be short lived as it is killing sales of Windows 8.

Brian