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I'm going to show you
here in Windows 7

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how to remove the admin privileges
from your account,

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and change it to a standard user

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and create an additional user
that is an administrator.

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If we go down to Start,

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we go down here and
we type user account,

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here are User Accounts.

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We click on Manage
another account.

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I'm assuming here that you will
currently be an administrator,

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so you'll need to look
for your account here,

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and see whether or not it is
an administrator or not.

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Here I'm logged in as John.

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You can see here this is
an administrator account.

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We want to change this
to be a standard user.

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We can't just change that
to be a standard user

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because then we wouldn't have
an administrator user,

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so we need to create
an administrator first.

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Which means we need to create
a new account, which is here.

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So we'll create another account,

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I'm calling it Tim.

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Not calling it administrator because
if you call it administrator,

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then it means that people can identify
it as an administrator account

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and in some instances
that makes it easier

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for someone to try to hack you

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because it's easier for them
to find the admin account.

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I mean, it's not really
a panacea,

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but it might just be easier
not to call it admin.

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Obviously we need
to select administrator

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because that's the sort
of account that we want

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and we click on Create account.

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Then there we go.

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We have Tim and he's
an administrator.

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This will have no password
at the moment.

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We want to click
Change the account type,

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Change this to a standard user.

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Change account type,

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then Manage another account.

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I can see here that John has been
changed to a standard user.

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Now, we do need to make sure that
we've got passwords on these accounts,

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so if I click on Tim

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and Create a password,

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and we need to make sure
that we create a password here.

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You'll need to follow the guidance that
I give on the area on passwords.

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There you have it,
you've changed your account,

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it’s now a standard user and you
have a separate user called Tim,

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or whatever you called it.

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There's administrative privileges
from the occasions

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when you need those admin rights
in order to do something.

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If for some reason you need to run
something as an administrator

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and you know that in advance,

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if you right click on what it is
you want to run,

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you can click on here,
Run as administrator.

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Then, it will prompt you for the username
and password for Tim

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or your administrator account,

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and you'll be able to run
it as administrator.

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That single process,
so Firefox in this case,

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will be running as
an administrator.

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Another thing I would suggest

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is make sure you remove
admin privileges

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for anyone else
that's on this machine.

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If Bob was a administrator,

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we'd want to make sure we
removed his privileges as well.

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Change it to standard user.

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Change account.

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Make sure you delete or disable
accounts that are not used.