At home or in the office it is important to keep your computer as secure as possible, especially when more than one user shares the same computer

One way to secure the computer is to enable secure logon, this is where the user is asked to press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to log on.

When secure logon is enabled, another program (such as a virus) cannot intercept the user name and password as it is entered.

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You have Windows 7 installed on your home computer which is not shared with any other users and you would like to speed up the process of logging into the computer every time it restarts, you can adjust the user account properties so that you are not prompted for a username or password at logon

NOTE: You should only configure this option if your computer is used for something relatively unimportant.

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The Windows 7 Reliability Monitor is a tool that measures hardware and software problems and other changes to your computer in the form of a stability index, this can then be used to help evaluate the reliability of the computer. Any changes made to the computer or problems that occur on the computer affect the stability index.

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Some of you based in the EU might not want to install the new ballot screen browser from Microsoft, which is due to be issued via Windows update beginning on 1 March 2010. See my Previous Post

If you do not want to install this update or any others automatically, then follow the steps below:

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Microsoft will kick off the full scale roll-out of the Web browser “ballot screen” early next week, this will end up being served to all Windows/Internet Explorer users in Europe to comply with the deal that the European Commission and Microsoft arrived at in December 2009

Te browser ballot screen is designed to give users in the European Union a choice of additional browsers, these include Opera, Firefox and Google Chrome.

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The resolution you can use depends on the resolutions your monitor supports. The larger the monitor, usually the higher the resolution it supports. Whether you can increase your screen resolution depends on the size and capability of your monitor and the type of video card you have.

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Microsoft is reported to have said on Thursday that it is planning an update to Windows 7 that will close a number of loopholes that had been used to thwart the operating systems built in anti-piracy measures

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Windows 7 provides excellent control over the Start menu, allowing you to choose which commands appear on the Start menu and how they are arranged. The following steps will show you how to change the Start Menu options

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