in order to keep Windows seven running
smoothly you can want to check the
Action Center from time to time to
manage your computer's security and
maintenance the shortcut to the Action
Center is on the taskbar and it's the
small flag icon and the red X symbol
means that there are important messages
that we need to address let's open the
Action Center to view the details you
can also get to the Action Center
through the control panel under system
and security all of your security and
maintenance messages are listed here and
the two red items are the important
messages this means that this computer
is vulnerable to viruses or other
malicious software the Action Center
makes it easy to fix these problems just
click the button on the right side of
the message we're going to want to take
care of all of the red items now and the
yellow one can wait until later because
it's less urgent so now the red X symbol
has disappeared from the flag icon and
we just have one message left and it's
about setting up windows backup which we
can choose to do now or later but maybe
we're planning to use a different
program for backups and we'd rather not
see this message anymore we can click
turn off messages about windows backup
and it's going to hide all backup
related messages if we want to turn
those messages back on we can go to
change Action Center settings and we can
check the windows backup box and you can
uncheck any of these if you don't want
to receive those messages but keep in
mind that if you uncheck any of the
security messages you could make your
computer less secure so now we're going
to look at the user account control
settings user account control adds
another layer of security to your
computer by notifying you in a program
or user is trying to make changes to
your computer in previous versions of
Windows some users complained about the
high number of pop-up messages and in
Windows 7 you can
control how often you receive those
messages by using this slider now to get
the most security you should use one of
the top two settings and the other two
are not recommended and they should only
be used in special circumstances and if
you're not sure which one to use just
use the top setting and you can always
bring it back down later if you find
that you're getting too many pop-up
messages so when we click OK user
account control notifies us that this
program here is trying to make a change
to our computer now if this program
looked unfamiliar to us we could click
no to stop it from making any changes
but since we recognized it will click
yes remember to use caution when
changing the Action Center and user
account control settings you can adjust
the settings to receive fewer pop-up
messages but there can be a trade-off
between convenience and security like
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