How to enable the hidden Administrator account on Windows 8

By default on Microsoft Windows 8 the Administrator account is disabled and you only have the personal user account created during the initial setup procedure done the very first time you opened the computer (or eventual other account manually created after).
Generally the user account you use should have enough privileges to perform any common daily routine, but sometime it is not enough and indeed you need to have the conventional Administrator account.

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Enable the Quick Launch Bar on the taskbar of Windows 7

Now that the official support for Microsoft Windows XP is almost over, it is time for those people that still use it to upgrade to a new computer and since Windows 8.X has not been very popular in term of interface “upgrade”, Microsoft Windows 7 may be a good choice.
One feature that Windows XP had, but that Windows 7 does not longer offer by default is the “Quick Launch Bar”; technically it has been replaced by “Pin to taskbar”, but it does not provide the same “experience” to the user too used to the XP’s “Quick Launch Bar”.

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