Lab Objective:
Learn how to create a user account with limited privileges.
Lab Purpose:
86 percent of all Windows security threats would have been stopped or rendered toothless if they had attacked users who were using limited, rather than administrator, accounts, and therefore lacked the power to install, modify or delete software. By default, you will have admin access on your PC, but you may wish to use a limited account for your daily tasks.
Lab Tool:
Windows 10
Lab Topology:
Use a virtual PC or your own PC.
Lab Walkthrough:
Task 1:
Click on the Windows icon and press the ‘Settings’ icon.
Task 2:
Click on ‘Accounts’.
Click on ‘Family and other people’.
Click Add someone else to this PC and choose ‘I don’t have this person’s sign-in information’.
Choose ‘Add a user without a Microsoft account’.
Task 3:
Choose the login and hint information for the new account.
The account will be created.
Task 4:
Click on the Windows icon again and choose the accounts icon. You can click on your new account and log in without administrator privileges.
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