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Helpful networking change in Windows 7

Continuing the Windows 7 theme of fixing things that were/are very annoying in Windows Vista, the process of connecting to a wireless network has been improved in Windows 7.

Specifically when you are asked to enter the WEP or WPA key for the network, the characters are displayed by default and only replaced by stars if you select the option. Showing the characters isn’t really much of a security risk, but does make life easier, especially if the key is hard to guess.

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