Windows 7 Beta doesn’t ask for a password while installing. Make sure to secure your computer by password protecting it manually.

Note: This post is not for the geeks (aka. advanced users).

I’m sure by now many of you must have installed Windows 7 Beta and must have started loving it given the fact that it’s only a beta version and seems to be pretty solid and have some UI eye-candies.

One thing that I noticed with Windows 7 Beta installation is that it didn’t ask for an Administrator password while installing. All it asked was the username. Now, considering this is a beta install it is understandable that the final version of Windows 7 will look a lot different than the beta in terms of fixing these corners.

If you’ve installed Windows 7 Beta and didn’t realize of this threat, make sure to secure your account with a password. The process of setting up password is pretty much the same as Windows Vista.

Step-1: Control Panel

Click on the Start button and then click on Control Panel.

Step-2: User Accounts and Family Safety

Click on User Accounts and Family Safety option.

Step-3: User Accounts

Click on the User Accounts option. You can also click on the Change your Windows Password option. If you do then you skip Step-4.

Step-4: Create a password for your user account

Click on the Create a password for your account option. Note that since we haven’t assigned any password yet (the default Windows 7 Beta behavior) you can see on the right side of the above screenshot that it doesn’t say anything about password protection for the account.

Step-5: Assign a Password

Assign a password on this screen and type-in a Password Hint for you to get reminded of your password if you forget your password in the future. Click on the Create Password button.

Once you assign a password to your account, a Password Protected message appears just below your username, as you can see on the above screenshot, to indicate that this account is password protected.

That’s all to it. This is a basic thing that can easily get ignored and can cause issues if you share your computer, particularly. I’m sure the further versions will have it fixed but just wanted to make aware of this behavior in Windows 7.