Change User Name in Windows 7

First, click on Start and then Control Panel. Then click on User Accounts and Family Safety.

On the next screen, click on the User Accounts heading at the very top.

Finally, click on Change your account name to actually change the user name. If you want to change the user name for a different account, click on Manage another account.

Now type in the new user name that you desire and click the Change button.

That’s it! Once you click Change, you’ll be back to the previous screen with a preview of the new login screen.

Change User Picture in Windows 7

To change the user account picture, simply click on the Change your account picture link in the second step above.

You can either choose from the default pictures in Windows 7 or you can click the Browse for more pictures link. Once you have chosen the desired picture, click on the Change Picture button.

Change/Create User Password in Windows 7

If you want to create a password for your user account or change the current password, click on the Change your Windows password link.

If you don’t already have a password setup for your user account, you can click on the Create a password for your account link, otherwise you can click Change your password.

So those are the most common three tasks when managing user accounts in Windows 7.

To customize your Windows 7 system you can adjust the base theme color used for window borders, the Start Menu, and the Taskbar. You can also choose whether or not the Start Menu, Taskbar, and window borders should appear semi-transparent, showing part of what is underneath.

1. Right-click an empty area of the Desktop and choose "Personalize" from the pop-up menu that appears.

2. The "Personalization" Control Panel appears. Near the bottom of the window, click on "Window Color".

3. The window changes to the "Window Color and Appearance" settings. From here you can do the following:

* Choose a base color - choose from one of the following base window colors (listed here in left-to-right order)

- Sky
- Twilight
- Sea
- Leaf
- Lime
- Sun
- Pumpkin
- Ruby
- Fuchsia
- Blush
- Violet
- Lavender
- Taupe
- Chocolate
- Slate
- Frost

* Next to "Color intensity", click and drag the slider to the right to make the color more intense - moving the slider to the left makes the color less intense.

* By checking or unchecking "Enable transparency", you can configure whether or not window borders, the Taskbar, and Start Menu appear semi-transparent.

* If you do not like the choice of colors, click the down arrow next to "Show color mixer". From here you can click and drag the sliders to adjust your desired color hue, saturation, and brightness.

4. When done, click "Save Changes" to close the "Window Color and Appearance" settings, then close the "Personalization" window.

Windows 7 has a brand new look as the new system suppose to have. It has new task bar navigation and functionality. However if you are uncomfortable with this new task bar and its new options you can customize it to have more usual look.

This article is describing the process of adding standard for XP and Vista systems Quick Launch bar to the Task Bar.

Steps to add Quick Launch bar to the Task Bar in Windows 7:

1. Right-click on an open area of the taskbar, choose Toolbars and then choose New Toolbar from the menu.

2. Now you should navigate to Quick Launch folder. In order to do that paste the following string to the address bar of Windows Explorer window:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Make sure that the location bar shows the full path before you choose the “Select Folder” button.

You’ll immediately notice the Quick Launch toolbar on the right side of the taskbar. You can click on the dotted lines and then drag the toolbar all the way to the left. Note that you’ll need to right-click and unlock the taskbar before you can move the toolbar.

3. To hide the text from the toolbar right-click on the dotted lines and uncheck “Show Text” as well as “Show Title” from the menu.

4. The last thing is to Lock your Taskbar again and you will get your "favourite" Quick Launch back.

New operating system from Microsoft, Windows 7, has a lot of enhancements which differs it from the previous Microsoft products. This time software giant concentrated on security and ergonomics. Some of the changes you could see in previous OS - Microsoft Windows Vista.

Windows 7 has many new cool features which will simplify, enhance and increase your productivity in performing daily tasks, and satisfaction from the working environment. Let's stop on the personalization settings. One of such features which previous OSs didn't have is the built-in tool to rotate (change) wallpapers in Windows 7 automatically.

To enable automatical changing of wallpapers at specified time intervals, perform next steps:

1. Go to [Start], then [Control Panel]. Click on the [Personalization] link or click on the [Appearance and Personalization] category and then click on [Change desktop background].

2. You need to make sure that either your theme has multiple wallpapers or you have selected multiple wallpapers from a specified folder (Use [Browse...] button to locate the folder with the wallpapers). Select wallpapers in the list you need.

3. Once you have selected the wallpapers you want to change, then you can check the Shuffle box below the list of wallpapers to change them randomly or leave without changes. Set the time interval, when the wallpapers will be changed.

4. Now you can choose the wallpaper position, which can be Fill, Fit, Stretch, Tile or Center.

5. When you have multiple desktop wallpapers set, right click on the desktop, now menu shows an additional option “Next Desktop Background Picture”. Click it every time you want to change the background.

If you have already had experience using Windows 7 you noticed that it is more "user-friendly" system than previous Windows products.

This article describes the common task that you perform to adjust your screen: changing Screen Resolution.

You can remember from previous Windows versions that it took several steps to get to screen resolution settings window.

Now I'll show you how simple it is in Windows 7:

1. Right-click an empty spot on your desktop and you will get Screen Resolution option already placed to the context menu.

2. Click on Screen Resolution option to get to the Sreen Resolution Window.

3. Click on the Resolution drop-down list and choose the desired option.

4. Accept the new settings, or cancel to revert to the previous settings.

5. Confirm changeswhen prompted and you are done.

The single most visible change in Windows 7 is the new “dock style” taskbar, which shows icons instead of buttons, with all application windows combined within a single button.

This is what the new taskbar looks like:

Changing the Windows 7 Taskbar to XP/Vista Style

To revert back to the older style, the first thing you’ll need to do is right-click on any open area of the taskbar and choose Properties from the menu.

From the Taskbar buttons drop-down menu, you’ll want to choose “Never combine”, which will make every window show up as a separate button on the taskbar, or you could choose “Combine when taskbar is full”, which does just like it says.

Now you should see the buttons show up with text labels like you are probably used to… but in the Windows 7 style.

If you chose the “Use small icons” checkbox in the properties screen, the taskbar will actually shrink down to look very similar to Vista.

The only problem is that the “pinned” icons are still sitting on the taskbar, which isn’t the same as Vista or XP, but you can easily remove all of them by right-clicking and choosing “Unpin this program from taskbar”.

Also you can choose the “Windows Classic” theme under the Desktop \ Personalize section: