Category: Windows 7

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.

After installing Windows Live Messenger in Windows 7, it is set to auto run at the Windows logon. If you do not like this, then you can disable Windows Live Messenger from starting up at Windows logon

In Windows 7, if you create a shortcut doing copy and create shortcut routine, then Windows appends Shortcut in front of the shortcut name. You can disable this behavior using these easy steps.

If you want to save some hard disk space by disabling System Restore, then you can follow the instructions in this article. But note that if you disable System Restore, you will not be able to perform a system restore when needed.

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.