Using vB Publishing Suite for Just CMS

[Guitar Guy]

Hey all, hope all is well.

This may seem an odd subject, but let me just preface everything before I ask my specific question.
I obtained vB several years back to use as a forum (obviously lol) but the sites did not end up going anywhere and the license ended up sitting around for a number of years.

Recently, there is a new opportunity that has presented itself and I have decided to start a sort of blog- initially, that is. Instead of dealing with Wordpress or one of those other templates, I figured "Hey! I have a license for this really flexible software, so I might as well use it!"

I plan on using the CMS section to publish the articles as blog posts (I know I'm reaaaaallllly underusing the software, but when things catch on, I'll enable the forum section again.

Anyways, so I installed vB (4.2.3) on the new site and disabled the blogs in the products and plugins section of vB and would now like to deactivate the "forum" and "what's new?" sections completely (with the ability to reenable them down the road) for the sake of simplicity. More specifically, I want the only tab available on the website to be the "articles" tab.

So how does one go about doing this? The answer's probably staring me right in the face, so excuse me while I bathe in a pool of ignorance here.

Thanks so much in advance!