I have a Poki start menu. Searching Windows Live Essentials did not bring up anything.
This 8.1 machine came with the Cloud (which I absolutely positively refuse to use, EVER) and "Picture Program" or something called "One". as a picture program. I LOATHE it. it is designed for people who take pictures and share pictures with their touch screen phones, nothing more. The "editing" program is a joke, and there is no way to tag, sort, organize or resize.
As you know, I loved the Vista photo gallery. When I had to buy the windows 8 machine I hated the picture gallery program compared to Vista but got used to it. Then I had to buy the 8.1 and got stuck with this friggin cloud and "one" crap.
With someone's help (you or Dee) I downloaded the Windows 8 picture gallery which, while not as good as vista, at least had the features I most use. But it hardly ever works. It crashes all the time.
Photobucket is impossible. Slow, not user friendly, a real mess. I just don't know what to do.
It's like everything is now designed for phones. Surely I am not the only person in the world who still uses a computer.