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How do I set up a standard user a/c in win8.1 in win/LL dual boot? - m654321 - 05-04-2015
This may be a strange question to ask in an LL forum but I'll give it a go...
I have a UEFI enabled LL2.4/win8.1 dual-boot system.
My Problem is that I would like to be able to set of a standard user (no password) and administrator (password protected) accounts on win8.1, but don't know how to do it.
Whenever I've used win7, I always set up two accounts:
1. a standard user a/c for day-to-day running, including the internet (no password, limited privileges)
2. a system administrator account (password protected) for making changes to the computer; never used for surfing on internet.
However, I've just bought a new laptop and of course it came preloaded with win8.1. Setting up a standard user a/c on this OS, is not as clear as in win7: the same buttons
to click on aren't there under user a/c settings.
At the moment, with win8.1, I have a local a/c that is marked administrator, and this screen presents itself whenever I boot into win8.1 from the grub screen, and it asks for a password.
I don't want to use this password protected a/c to surf the internet, as having entered my password, I am therefore giving permission to anything it meets on the internet
(e.g. malware) to modify my computer if it so wishes. Therefore, how do I set up a standard user a/c in win8.1 to allow safe surfing on the internet? I didn't find anything
useful when I searched online with Google.
Many thanks for any clarification on this.
Regards
Mike