ProtectYourPC

ProtectYourPC specifies whether Express settings are used to:

  • Personalize speech, typing, and inking input by sending contacts and calendar details, along with other associated input data to Microsoft.
  • Let Windows and apps request the user’s localization, including location history, and use the advertising ID to personalize experiences on the device.
  • Turn on protection from malicious web content and use page prediction to preload sites in Windows browsers, which sends the browsing history to Microsoft.
  • Automatically connect to suggested open and shared networks.
  • Send problem reports to Microsoft.
Note  The functionality for ProtectYourPC has changed for Windows 10 for desktop editions (Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education). In previous releases, this setting specified whether Windows Update installed important and recommended updates automatically.

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When booting up to the logon screen, Windows may notify you that your password will expire in a number of days and ask whether you want to change it now. This behavior can start months after your initial installation of Windows. Its purpose is to help enforce password policies in a business environment, but if you don’t need that enforcement, it can be very annoying. In this tutorial we’ll show you two options to turn off password expiration in Windows 8/7/Vista/XP. The steps are quite simple!

Note: If your password expired and couldn’t remember your Windows password, you need to use a password cracking bootdisk such as Reset Windows Password utility to remove your forgotten password, before following this guide to turn off Windows password expiration.

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Windows 7 allows you to pin your favorite programs to Taskbar so that you can access them quickly whenever you want. To pin a program to Taskbar you just need to right-click on its shortcut and select “Pin to Taskbar” option:

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Here in this tutorial, we’ll learn how to pin various useful system shortcuts like Control Panel, My Computer, Recycle Bin, Programs and Features, etc to Windows 7 Taskbar.

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