Altered Settings to tablet mode and it's got rid of the Desktop with no adverse effects seen so far. Thanks Ztruker !

Would still like to edit the text on some tiles I've pinned to the start...

I'll give it a go. Thanks for your help !

I stopped using the desktop in Win8.1 (apart from those apps that still open it to start)
With Win10 , the desktop appears automatically on start up and also if you close an app. This always needs...