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Do you want to easily remove your User picture from Windows 7 Start Menu? Kishan Bagaria, one of our fellow mate and a member of The Windows Club Forum has came up with an one click solution. He has developed a free portable app known as Windows 7 Start Menu User Picture Remover that allows you to remove your User picture from your Windows 7 Start Menu with just one click.

To use this app, you just have to download it from his website door2windows and save it to a location on your hard drive. The download size of the app is amazingly only 441 KB for the ZIP version and 896 KB for the EXE version. After saving it, just run the app with Administrator rights and click on the Remove Start Menu User Picture button.

PDF Password Remover is designed to remove the password and restrictions (Owner Password) of PDF files. Right-click the PDF file, select Decrypt with AnyBizSoft PDF Password Remover from the shortcut menu, the restrictions will be removed in seconds. It is easy for you to copy, edit or print the PDF files after decryption.

We posted about a small utility "God Mode Creator" before. If you liked the "God Mode" concept then you will surely like this. Ed Bott has uncovered a list of 94 secret Windows 7 shortcuts which are not documented by Microsoft. The list includes the following type of shortcuts: folders from current user profiles, other interesting per-user folders, virtual folders and Control Panel shortcuts, system and per-machine folders. You can head over to the article for the complete list and information by clicking here.

Windows 7 is very much different from Windows XP, even though it may resemble like Windows Vista. New users who have upgraded from the Windows XP world may find themselves at a loss. Microsoft in order help these users has made available for download a free resource accompanying the operating system. It's a free ebook (.pdf) titled "Your Guide to Windows 7".

Microsoft stated “Windows 7 might look and feel very different when you first use it. That’s why you’re turning to your IT department for help. They’ve listened to your questions and your needs and passed this information on to us. We thought about what help you would need and went away to produce this short guide. It’s designed to show some of the new features of Windows 7, as well as show you how you can do everyday tasks quickly and easily.”

If you use Windows 7, then you may miss the normal shutdown option when pending installations of Windows updates are available. In place of the normal shut down option Windows 7 just gives you the option to "Shut down and Install Patches".

But if you are in a hurry and wants to postpone the update/patch installation to a later time, then there is a simple way around for normally shutting down Windows.