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Although Windows 7 comes with a built-in firewall, it does not provide you with as many control features as a commercial firewall does. In addition, Windows firewall allows all the Microsoft programs, by default. But now you can control which programs Windows 7 gives network access and which kind of access is to be granted.

On the Windows logon screen, a user has to enter a username and password. If you are an administrator and a user has forgotten his/her account’s password, you may want to remove his/her password to let that user logon again. This article tells you how to remove password from a user account in Windows 7.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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