[soi 2]

A couple of weeks ago I updated windows 8 to the newer version. All seemed fine. Then I noticed that now when I switch my laptop on. It doesn't start at the normal windows 8 home page where you select a tile to use an app.

Instead it opens up straight into desktop. Which would be fine but... I have some black google chrome bar with icons for youtube, g-mail etc along the bottom of my screen. Which makes things like changing volume or using the calculator which i normally have minimised there difficult.

When I hover the mouse about down there my old icons pop up but they seem to be faint and when I click on them the window I'm using gets minimised. Pretty annoying.

Is there some daft thing I've done in settings that's caused this change ? Or is it a new chrome update that's caused it ? I just want to get this off my computer and use it as before.

Any suggestions welcome.