You can create a new account that is an administrator, then simply change
your current account to a standard account.
Or you can run the Windows Easy Transfer Wizard and create a file of all
your files and settings, then use that on your new account.
"Myron Bennett" <> wrote in message
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> I asked this question at the end of a longer thread I'd started, and I
> guess it is old news so no one looks to see that I've taken advice,
> but need some more.
> In short. I've been about a year on my Vista home prem. machine, and
> have not set up administrator account and so I am using it with its
> power that I don't quite understand, which they tell me leaves me more
> open to invaders etc..
> So they convinced me. I tried to start a new user account, but saw
> that it does not have all the files and programs that I depend on. It
> seems to say, Start over and do all that stuff you did over a year's
> time all over again.
> Question: How do I make a user account with what I have?
> I'd think I could just call what I have now a user account and create
> an administrator account beside it, but I haven't been able to figure
> out how to do it.
>
> Thanks in advance
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