Windows 7 is the newest operating system that comes installed on Windows personal computers. Windows 7 comes bundled with many useful tools, but there are other tools you need.

As far as programs go, if your new computer did not come with an antivirus program, it is very important to purchase one or download a free one! Without a reliable antivirus program, your computer is at great risk! An anti-malware program such as MalwareBytes is also needed and is free, along with an anti-spyware program such as Ad-Aware.

Speaking specifically of tools, there are some that you need to install on a new Windows personal computer:

Most brand laptops and desktops comes with unwanted preinstalled software which you should uninstall if you want your computer to function better. PC Decrapifier lets computer owners get rid of junk software and make more room for software and programs that are needed. PC Decrapifier is free for personal use; the commercial version is available at a small cost.

It is very important to create a system image when you buy a new computer. You can create one using the built-in Windows backup and restore center, but this may not be installed on all Windows editions. A more powerful tool is Macrium Reflect; use it to create the first system image and for other similar tasks when you start using your computer. You can download a free edition.

Revo Uninstaller is a great tool to clean uninstalled applications and programs from a Windows PC. It’s much more powerful than the default add/remove programs tool. Sometimes there are problems encountered when trying to uninstall programs using Windows Add or Remove Programs.

CCleaner is a wonderful free tool to perform routine computer maintenance and get rid of temporary files and data that you don’t need. CCleaner is an optimization tool that removes unused and temporary files from your computer.

Microsoft Security Essentials is one of the best free software tools that has been released by Microsoft. It can protect your computer from viruses, spyware and malware.

People tend to procrastinate when it comes to backing data up. Many times a crisis situation happens where people lose important data without any backup at all. An online backup tool like Dropbox and an offline sync and backup tool like Syncback SE allow online backups and data to be synchronized with an external hard drive.

These tools can be downloaded free of charge and are highly recommended.

I have a simple method to get access to protected content without need to endure the annoyance of signing up for an account. Every time relatives and friends send me links to registration-required Web sites, I’ll visitBugMeNot to bypass most of these annoyance. BugMeNot is a free Web site that stored registered user account logins and passwords so you don’t have to provide your personal info.

Once you at BugMeNot front page, just type in the URL of the website that you’d like access. BugMeNot then will return a list of user names and passwords along with their accuracy percentage.

For Firefox users, BugMeNot provide the extension that automates these process. Once you’ve installed the extension, you can easily access the website you like by right click on the username or email address text box.

When this setting is enabled, users are no longer able to access the Change Passwords page

Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] Value Name: NoPwdPage

Data Type: REG_DWORD Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

if EXIST “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure u want to Lock the folder(Y/N)

set/p “cho=>”

if %cho%==Y goto LOCK

if %cho%==y goto LOCK

if %cho%==n goto END

if %cho%==N goto END

echo Invalid choice.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren Locker “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”

attrib +h +s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”

echo Folder locked

goto End

:UNLOCK

echo Enter password to Unlock folder

set/p “pass=>”

if NOT %pass%==type your password here goto FAIL

attrib -h -s “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}”

ren “Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}” Locker

echo Folder Unlocked successfully

goto End

:FAIL

echo Invalid password

goto end

:MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker created successfully

goto End

:End

This quick tutorial will show you how to develop your own functional IM bot that works with Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live and all other popular instant messaging clients.

To get started, all you need to know are some very basic programming skills (any language would do) and web space to host your “bot”.

For this example, I have created a dummy bot called “webtoim” that listens to your IM messages. To see this live, add webtoim@bot.im to your GTalk buddy list and start chatting.

Step 1: Go to www.imified.com and register a new account with a bot.

Step 2: Now it’s time to create a bot which is actually a simple script that resides on your public web server.
It could be in PHP, Perl, Python or any other language.

Example Hello World bot:
The example below illustrates just how easy it is to create a bot.
This example is coded in PHP.

switch ($_REQUEST['step']) {
case 1:
echo “Hi, what’s your name?”;
break;
case 2:
echo “Hi ” . $_REQUEST['value1'] . “, where do you live?”;
break;
case 3:
echo “Well, welcome to this hello world bot, ” . $_REQUEST['value1'] . ”
from ” . $_REQUEST['value2'] . “.”;
break;
}
?>

Step 3: Once your script is ready, put it somewhere on your web server and copy the full URL to the clipboard.

Step 4: Now login to your imified account, paste the script URL

This is a very basic bot but the possibilities are endless.

For instance, you could write a bot that will send an email to all your close friends via a simple IM message. Or you could write one that will does currency conversion.