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OpenID is a way of using a common username across multiple sites for authentication. It has obvious benefits such as eliminating the needs of remembering different usernames and less headaches for companies to administer their usernames and passwords. It takes advantage of the fact that users have already created identies for themselvs in forms of their blogs, online profiles, memberships to social networking sites etc.

This is a step by step article that explains how to install and configure the Mollom Module on your Drupal web site.

- Go to Drupal's Mollom Project page to download the Mollom Module at http://drupal.org/project/mollom

- Extract the Module on your local drive first (for example to C:\Temp\mollom-5.x-1.6\mollom)

- Go to Mollom's website http://Mollom.com , if you do not have an account, create one (its free). If you already have an account, log on to it.

I recently had to patch my Mollom Module that I have got installed on a Drupal installation. I just wanted to share with other folks as to how you can do this, especially from a Windows machine when you do not have access to a Linux or Unix command prompt to make changes or you do not have access to the patch utility.