just moved from a vista to a new windows 8 machine.

my startup procedure USED to be (in vista):

press on-button.
xp loads to the desktop.

easy. simple. direct.

now, my windows 8 startup procedure is:

press on-button.
windows loads a picture that looks like a two-year-old's drawing of the seattle space needle.
i click this.
windows now asks for a password.
i enter password.
windows now loads the metro screen.
i click on the desktop tile on this screen.
windows loads to the desktop.

maybe still easy and simple but certainly no longer direct.

i know there is something called "classic shell" that emulates the windows 7 interface. i'm not sure i want to go that far.

is there something i can do to have 8 go directly to the desktop bypassing the "space needle" screen, the password screen (i don't need a password on this home machine) and the metro screen?

thanks in advance,

terry