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I'm going to show you how to remove
your admin privileges in Windows 8.

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If you click on the Windows
button or the Start menu,

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and type user accounts

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and click on User accounts here.

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Then, let's make this
a little bit wider.

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Then click on manage
another account.

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We can see all the accounts
that we’ve got here.

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I'm assuming that the account that you
have is an administrator account.

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If it is a standard user, then you
don't need to change it,

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but we can see here,

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the account that we've logged in as
has an administrator privilege.

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We need to add another account.

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We don't want to remove administrator
privileges straight away

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from the account
that's logged in,

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because then we would have
no administrator privileges

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to do an admin task.

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So we need to create an account first,
and give it admin rights.

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So we'll do that now.

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Add an account.

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Here it's going to ask you for your
various Microsoft Services details.

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I'm going to Skip all of this,

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so Sign in without
Microsoft account,

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Local account.

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If you want to create Microsoft
linked accounts, that's up to you.

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I actually don't recommend that.

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But click on Local account, so
now we need to create a user.

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I'm going to call this user Tim
as opposed to Time.

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I don't necessarily recommend creating
this user with the name admin,

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because it can give away information
for a hacker to know that,

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that is an administrator account.

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It doesn't really give you
too much, but just in case,

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I'm going to call it Tim.

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Now, you should setup your
password details here

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according to what I recommend
on the section on passwords.

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Finish.

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And there, we setup
a Tim account for us.

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You'll notice that this didn't ask
us about admin privileges,

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so this will just be
a standard user.

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If I click on this,

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and I click Edit,

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change this to Administrator
and click OK,

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we now have Tim
as an administrator.

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We now need to remove admin
privileges from our account.

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If we click the Windows button,

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we'll go to the start screen
and I type account.

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There we go,
and click User accounts,

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Manage another account.

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There's the account
we logged in as,

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we double click on this,

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Change account type,

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Change to standard,

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Change account type,

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click on Manage another account.

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We can see we swapped
these accounts over.

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John is now a standard user
and Tim is an administrator.

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You need to also make sure

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that you disable all accounts
or remove accounts you don't use,

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and remove admin privileges

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from any other account apart
from the one special account

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that you're going to use
as an administrator account.

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If you know in advance that you want
to run something as an administrator

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and you're logged in with
your standard user,

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all you need to do is right click
and then Run as administrator.

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You'll be prompted with the admin
username and password

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which you can just enter here.

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If you're installing things,

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you'll generally find that
you do need admin rights.

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Also, if something
is not quite working,

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it might be worth trying to run it
as an administrator

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to see if that's causing
the problem.

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Obviously, every time you run
something as an administrator,

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you are taking a slight risk,

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so you should never run anything that
you don't trust as an administrator.