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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.

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.

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.

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.

After installation Windows 7 may show the time format in the standard military time format like 17:00 for 5 PM. But you can easily change the time format to everyday time format with AM/PM using the procedure in this article.

By default Windows 7 has only three programs in the standard quicklaunch taskbar : Internet Explorer 8, Windows Media Player 12 and Windows Explorer. But using a new feature in Windows 7 called Pin Up, you can pin any program to the taskbar.

Windows XP has a File menu in Windows Explorer windows. But in Windows 7 and Windows Vista, menus are turned off by default. But you can make menus appear in the Windows’ Explorer as in Windows XP and older versions. You can temporarily or permanently turn on the file menu, in Windows 7 following these steps.

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.

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 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.