Getting Started with Windows 8

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffFebruary 20, 2026

This HP app provides a helpful introduction to Windows 8. It covers essential navigation, features, and settings for new users.

Pros
- Teaches Windows 8 navigation
- Explains the new Start screen
- Covers finding apps and files
- Details moving between environments
- Includes touch and charms usage
Cons
- Focuses solely on basics
- Does not cover advanced topics
- App directed towards HP users implicitly

Getting Started with Windows 8

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GENERAL

Release: January 3, 2013

Latest update: February 20, 2026

Version: 0

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 10
Windows 8

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 258

Downloads Last Week: 2

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By Hewlett Packard Development Company

Help you learn the basics of Windows 8.

Windows 8 is a new and exciting experience. Like any new experience, it helps to be guided through it. Getting Started with Windows 8 is an HP non-exclusive app that helps you learn the basics and directs you to more information and support. This app will teach you about how to navigate in Windows 8, the new Windows 8 start screen, finding apps and files, moving between the new Windows 8 Start screen and the classic desktop, Windows 8 apps, Windows 8 store, the new control panel and task manager, using touch, charms and menus, and modifying the Windows 8 start screen.