Windows Explorer does not have menu displayed by default like you were used to in previous versions. To activate and keep it permanently visible follow this tutorial.
By default Windows calculator doesn't support order of operation, to enable the functionality you need to activate the scientific view, let me show you how.
If on your Windows 7 computer opening programs, saving documents, browsing the Internet and other every day tasks are getting slower, this is how you speed up things without installing an additional program.
Windows 8 also brings a very transparent tool for examining global indices, where you can also optionally keep track of the value of individual shares.