How to Create a Local Admin Account

This video demonstrates how to setup a local admin account on a Windows PC.

Mac users may refer to this article: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/07/06/promote-demote-os-x-user-accounts/

In this tutorial we discuss the importance of securing the computer that you will use for your cryptocurrency wallet interaction.

Using good anti-virus and anti-malware software on your computer is a good start, but one of the most overlooked security flaws in computer's setup is the fact that the initial user account by default, will have Administrator privilege on that computer.

Why Is This An Issue?

Any program that runs on your computer, does so using the privileges allowed by the user's account.
The default security settings on your computer will only allow you access to, or permission on, certain files and folders within your computer system.

For example, a person with Standard privilege can create, read, write and delete files that they have created, but may not be allowed to access or delete or modify files that belong to another user of that computer. In particular, they would not be able to make changes to files that make up the operating system of the computer.
A user with Administrator privilege can do anything on the computer, including deletion of sensitive or required files of the operating system.

Where the security issue comes into play is when you operate a computer with Administrator privilege and a malware program infects your computer, it will run with Administrator privilege on your computer, possibly doing severe damage to the operating system or stealing financial data on your computer and transmitting it elsewhere.

So the first step you should take to securing your cryptocurrency computer is to set it up with a local Administrator account, which you will use for things like installing software and performing updates, etc.
The next step will be to lower your existing account to the Standard privilege to use your computer for day to day operations.