I saw all of those on the live CD but once loaded not available. This
laptop has been dual boot for a long time. I have a separate partition
for Root about 26 GB and Home about 57 GB, 2 GB for swap. I haven't had
any problems on other Distros on this PC. The only thing I could do was
right click and change the background. I tried all four sides expecting
something to slide out. There wasn't and of the icons as you describe.
I may have to try again, not sure I want too though.