Compared to Vista the User Account Control has much improved in Windows 7, however the continuous confirmation pop-up can still be very annoying as well as time-consuming.
Windows comes with a malicious software scanner already installed and activated. In case you don’t need it, here is how to disable Windows Defender:
In order to prevent Windows 7 from asking you each time what you want to do, or worse automatically start running programs, each time you insert a CD or USB key into the PC you will want to disable AutoPlay:
When trying to share only a single subfolder in [drive]:\Users\[user] (for instance C:\Users\JohnDoe\Downloads) the entire Users folder actually gets shared.
Eventhough the account used to install Windows 7 is part of the administrators group, you may find the need for a “real” administrator account to get the “old feel of absolute power and administrative control” over your PC back as you were used to in previous Windows versions.