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.
You have no need to protect your Windows access with a password? Perform following steps to eliminate the prompt for user and password after startup:
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.
Confused by the new Control Panel layout in Windows 7? Try the so-called “God Mode” or All Tasks list or any of the other shortcuts to go directly to your most used Windows folders.
When opening a file directly from a shared folder on the local area network a warning message appears that looks something like this:
