Author: Trisha

Windows 7 comes with a firewall built in – called Windows firewall. Unfortunately, this Windows firewall allows outbound connections by default. An outbound connection is a connection from your computer to internet. But you can enable outbound protection using these steps.

When a program does not respond to your clicks, its window does not come to the foreground, maximizes or minimizes and you see not responding in its title bar, then that program has frozen. All you have to do is terminate that program. If a program becomes frozen and does not respond, you can kill / terminate it using Task manager.

If you have received a second hand computer, you may want to change the registered owner name and registered organization name. It is also possible that somebody else installed Windows 7 for you and has set his name and organization. You may want to change it. This articled tells you different ways to see and edit this information.

You ran Windows 7 update adviser on your computer and it says that your graphics card cannot run Aero – the glass like interface of Windows 7? Worry no more, if you could run it in Windows Vista, you can run Aero in Windows 7 no matter what it says. After installing Windows 7, follow these instructions

There are many reasons we all want to hide a drive on our computers at different times. You can now hide any drive whether it is a floppy drive, hard disk partition drive or a CD/DVD disk drive using the following method.

If a user does not need his/her account for some period of time, you may want to disable his/her account temporarily for security reasons. This article tells you how to disable a user account in Windows 7. Only an administrator can delete or disable user accounts.

Windows 7 comes with a lot of bells and whistles. Windows Aero is one of those eye candies that make Windows look cooler. But Aero can make Windows slow and sluggish, if you do not have a very fast system. It can also put extra load on your GPU (graphic processing unit) card. If you are done enjoying Aero, you can disable it now for making Windows 7 even faster.

Windows 7 comes with a lot of eye candies. Windows Aero Shake is one of them. You can do jiggly jiggle with any window to minimize all other window quickly. This article describes how to use Windows Aero Shake to minimize any open window.

Windows 7 has a new feature called Sticky Notes. They are software version of paper sticker Post It notes which come in many colors. You can use them as a reminder for important events, meetings or tasks. You can paste them all over your Windows 7 desktop.