please explain how and what,&why

[dangedcoyote]

Ok So perhaps I am not all that bright. I am new to much of this and need a hand. I do not understand how this works why it wors or even how to get it to work. I have tried to figure it out by going to the help info on how to load configure and all that but the problem is that it does not tell me why I want to do some of the things it says can be done. Shoot for that matter I dont even know if I have anything in it set up right as of now. I have recieved a program and in one set of instructions it said to get this program and run it through it yet as I am I do not know how to do it. I am so sorry for sounding as if I dont know what it is I am doing but alas I do not , Yet am Eager to learn. Thank you for the help.