Category: Windows 7

Windows 7 assigns a random picture to your account after you have installed Windows for the first time. Windows also assigns a random picture after you create a new user account. This picture appears on the Windows logon screen and on the Start Menu. You can change this picture if you want to.

Power button is the button in your Windows 7 Start Menu, clicking on which makes your computer shut down by default. But this is the default action of the power button. You can make this power button restart, sleep or log off if you want. This article shows you how to do this.

If you a password protected account in Windows 7 and you want to change its password, then this article describes you how to do that. If you are a standard user you can change only your password (of course). If you are an administrator, you can change the password of any user.

The first account Windows 7 creates during Windows setup is the administrator account. If you have only one account on your computer, then you are using the administrator account. You can create a new user account if you want to.

Microsoft Windows 7 comes on a bootable DVD, using which you can install Windows 7 on your computer. But Microsoft has created a tool that allows you to create a bootable Windows 7 USB pendrive using which you can install Windows 7. The main reason for this is slower data transfer from DVD drives compared to USB pendrives. This article tells you how to create a bootable USB disk for Windows 7.

Access all the features of windows 7 on your desktop using a tool called Windows in a Box. This saves you from all the struggle you normally do for changing a Windows setting.

Windows enthusiasts have found a hidden feature in Windows 7 (which also works in Windows Vista). They have renamed it the Windows’ God Mode. It lets the users access all the settings of Windows from a single folder. It works in all versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Windows 7 brings a new and improved User Account Control (UAC) which is much better than the UAC we have seen in Windows Vista. So you might not want to turn it off. But if your are determined to turn off the User Account Control feature in Windows 7.

Windows 7 hides important files and folders by default. Also you cannot see any hidden file in Windows Explorer by default. But you can change the settings to make Windows Explorer show hidden files and folders.