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My wife is a manual reader..... she will pick up the manual and read it from cover to cover. She does this with every thing, even new cars which gives me endless opportunity to goad her. The lenova came with no user paper user manual. Presumable to save the 32 cents per laptop. There was a PDF user manual on the desk top. She double clicks it and IP pops a bloatware window to buy a non adobe PDF reader. She says no, window goes away back to desk top. Click user manual, rinse and repeat. Silly shit like that.

Hate to say it, but we live in a digital world. Rarely do any products these days come with full, usable, detailed, paper manuals - instead, there usually exists robust sets of tutorials and How-To's on the net.

Did your wife go to the Microsoft website? This was extremely easy to find:
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A whole host of tutorials and details about the OS.

The majority of problems you're running into sounds like Lenovo-specific problems. Whenever I buy a new Lenovo laptop, the first thing I do is flatten the drive and do a clean reinstall of the OS. Lenovo and these other companies put far too much bloatware on the machines, and an immediate clean install is the only way to combat that.