I want to stop using admin account

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sp-googling

I currently use the admin logon account and I want to change to
something that leaves my PC a little less vulnerable. Is there an easy
way to do something like create a new admin account and change the
admin account to a power user? Either that or copy the admin account
and then clean the admin account up?

Cheers
 
Why not just make a new user in Local Users and Groups while signed in as Admin put it in the Group Users and log in with that?
 
No.

But it is not too hard either.

It is important that you don't change your first account.

Create a new normal / power user account.

Copy the profile of your admin account to the default profile
1) in explorer, check that you can see hidden files
2) Goto control panel -> system -> user profile
3) select your admin account
4) click on button "copy to"
5) usually the path is "c:\documents and settings\default user", change the
drive if your system dirve is not c:
6) set permission to "Everyone"
7) click ok and your profile will starts coping

Log in with the new account. You should see your desktop and everything
there.

Tie up the loose end...

Jeremy
 
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