I’m going to show you in Windows 10 2
how to remove your admin privileges and change you to a standard user. 3
If we go down here 4
and click User accounts, 5
click on User accounts, 6
then click on Manage another account. 7
Now, what I'm assuming is that you are currently an administrator. 8
If you're not an administrator, then you don't need to change it. 9
In order to remove your admin rights, 10
we need to create another user first, 11
give them admin rights and then remove your rights. 12
That's the first thing we want to do. 13
We want to add a new user. 14
Click on Add someone else to this PC. 15
Now, it's up to you but you can setup your Windows Microsoft integration. 16
I don't recommend you do that, 17
but that's entirely up to you. 18
Here I'm going to click on this one. 19
And because I don’t want the integration, 20
I'm going to click on Add a user without Microsoft Account. 21
Here I need to enter my username. 22
I'm going to enter Bob, or Bobo. 23
I'm not going to call this admin or administrator account 24
because if you do that it can give away information 25
as to the account being an administrator and can help a hacker. 26
It doesn’t really make much difference, 27
but it's sometimes better just to call it something other than admin. 28
Then click Next. 29
Now we need to make this new account an administrator. 30
If we return back to here, 31
actually you'll see that Bob isn't there, 32
but if you click Refresh, he should appear, but he's not. 33
Let's go to user accounts 34
and Manage another account, 35
and there we do see Bob. 36
If we click on Bob, and we click on Change the account type, 37
Change to administrator, 38
Change account type, 39
Manage another account, 40
now we can see that Bob is now an administrator. 41
We're now going to remove privileges from our own account. 42
We click on our own account. 43
Change the account type, 44
Change to standard, 45
Change account type, 46
Manage another account, 47
this is now a standard user or a local account as it's called, 48
and Bob is an administrator. 49
We'll use Bob only for our specific administrating tasks 50
and we use our regular account for everything else. 51
I would also recommend you disable 52
or delete any other accounts you don't use 53
and remove admin privileges 54
from all other accounts apart from the one special one that you use, 55
just for administrative tasks. 56
If you know in advance that you need to run something as an administrator, 57
that's quite simple. 58
You just right click on it and Run as administrator. 59
And then you'll be prompted for a username and password 60
for the admin account which you can put in. 61
Obviously, never run anything as an administrator that you don't trust.