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Although having a password set for your user account keeps your account and related files safe from the eyes of other users, but if you are the only user of your Windows 8 PC then why go through the hassle of entering username and password everytime you power on your computer. You can just remove the user password from your Windows account and it would make Windows login automatically without asking for a user password.

Windows 8 allows you to create picture password for your account, which is nothing but a set of gestures made over a picture. You have to make the same set of gestures in the same order to login to Windows. But if you have forgotten your picture password, or just do not want to use the picture password any longer than you can remove it from your account.

In Windows 8, you can create picture password for your account. The picture password is a set of gestures made over a picture. You have to make the same set of gestures in the same order to login to Windows. Because there are millions of possible gestures in different locations of the image, the picture password is very much stronger than the normal text password. The picture password feature is specially designed for touchscreen computers.

When you install and run Windows 8 for the first time, you are given an option to create a user account and choose the username and password. But if you forget to set a password for your user account, then you can do it later very easily. Windows 8 allows you to create a password for your user account through the PC settings.

When you power on your Windows 8 PC, you are taken to the start screen (previously called metro screen). This start screen has all the tiles with links to launch Windows 8 apps. For example, you can click on the Internet Explorer tile to launch the Windows 8 app for Internet Explorer and so on. By default, the start screen has a purple colored background image. But if you want, then you can change the start screen background image along with the background color.

Like the older versions of Windows, you can also lock your Windows 8 PC by pressing the Win + L hotkey. But the lock screen has changed very much in Windows 8. Now it looks more like the lock screen of a mobile device, maybe because Windows 8 has been designed keeping the touchscreen tablets in mind. The Windows 8 lock screen shows a background picture that you have to drag up to unlock your PC. Windows 8 allows you to change the background picture of the lock screen.

If you plan to run your own web server like Apache HTTP server, then you may have to open a port for people who may want to connect to your server. If you are using the Windows Firewall, then this task is not so straightforward. You can open a port in the Windows 8 Firewall using the steps in this article.

Some of the malware use special ports to connect to the infected computers. For example, the ports 5400, 5401 and 5402 are used by the Blade Runner malware. You can use Windows Firewall to block access to such ports of your system. You can block a port in the Windows Firewall using the steps shown in this article.

When you install Windows 8, it does not ask you for a user account picture like the older versions of Windows. Moreover the options to change user account picture do not seem to be present in the Control Panel. But Windows 8 has a much easier way to set a user account picture for your account. Interestingly, Windows 8 also allows you to set a small video instead of the picture for your user account.