Originally Posted by Murlyn

Or just give her a start menu. Drag the applications folder to the dock.. give her a two button mouse.. and tell her to right click on that application folder to view all her applications. When she's installing an application.. open up the image, drag the program to that applications folder on her dock and it'll be in there ready for her to use.

There are definitely things to help her along if she's used to Windows.. make it more windows like.. it's quite customizeable.