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Much like in Windows Vista you’ll find a graphical login screen for Windows 7. This has a much nicer look and feel to it than the old login prompts of Windows XP and its predecessors but it at the expense of security. Anyone attempting to infiltrate your system will have access to all the possible usernames and will merely have to guess the passwords. If the users are not using secure passwords then they will easily be compromised.

So how can one protect their system from this type of attack? Aside from using secure passwords you can also go a step further and enable the classic logon screen as used in the earlier versions of Windows. This will force the user to not only guess the password but the username as well.

• Press start
• Type: local security policy
• Press enter
• Expand local policies
• Click Security Options
• Double-click “Interactive Login: Do not display last user name”
• Check Enabled
• Click OK

Now close all open windows and restart the system. After it is done booting you will now be prompted to enter both the username and password, without being provided with a list of available users.

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Those of you who rely heavily on the run dialog may have noticed it is no longer in the Windows 7 start menu by default. If, like myself, you’re accustomed to using the Win+R hotkey then this isn’t much of an inconvenience. However if you’d like to add it back to the start menu this can be done easily by following these steps:

1. Right Click on your taskbar
2. Click Properties
3. In the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties dialog select the Start Menu tab
4. Click the Customize button
5. Scroll down the list until you see Run Command and click the check box beside it
6. Click OK twice to close the dialog boxes

That’s it, you should now see “Run…” when you click your start button