Help a freaking noob

[Heera]

Was given a raspberry 3. Went online & downloaded noobs. Got it hooked up. Did soft update & it went through the process. I changed default password and it asked me to check for software updates again.

Clicked check & it went through process again. 3rd time I said skip. It finished & put me on a desktop with only a trash can. No other icons. No toolbars etc.

Help. I somehow opened terminal from Inside but I'm not sure where to go from here.

Not much of a coder but can follow directions.

I want to set up VNC so I can control from my laptop & then go from there. Any help would be awesome. Ive tried Google and I'm all confused!

[procount]

Only having the trash can icon on the desktop is normal.
Having no toolbars is not normal. But it could be they are just not visible because they are off the top of the screen if your video configuration is not set properly for your monitor.

As you can get to a terminal, try:

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sudo nano /boot/config.txt

and look for any settings related to overscan. (Make a note of them so you can restore them later if necessary)
Put a '#' in front of any "disable_overscan" setting.
Change any other "overscan_XXX" settings to 24 (or adjust to other values)
Reboot and see if you can see the toolbar now.
If you now find you have a bigger black border around the edge of the screen and still no toolbar, then it's another problem.

Whilst in the terminal, you can type:

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sudo raspi-config

to enter the configuration screens. From here you can enable SSH and VNC under the interfacing section.