A reader made us aware that with Home Premium versions of Windows 7, you may not be able to create a new User account named Administrator. The instructions and screenshots in chapter 7 of the book were done with Windows 7 Ultimate, not Home Premium. Following those instructions with Windows 7 Home Premium may result in an error message like that shown in the next screenshot.

Error Message

If you use Windows Home Premium and get this error when trying to set up a decoy “Administrator” account, instead name the decoy account “Admin” (see the next screenshots) or something similar that will lead hackers to believe that it is the Administrator account.

Naming the User Account "Admin"

Voila!

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