Friday, August 13, 2004

create a shortcut to lock your computer

if you're paranoid like me then you probably never leave your workstation without locking it first. i usally just do a <ctrl>+<alt>+<del>, press enter (i use windows 2000) and voila, my machine is now safe from those prying eyes =) but not all the time, sometimes i'm in too much of a hurry to actually check if my workstation has indeed been locked. i only find out when i get back that the windows security pop-up is still on screen, meaning the enter key wasn't processed (probably because the machine was too busy), thus leaving my pc open to the world. don't you just hate it when that happens? well, this no longer happens to me, i've found a way to lock my computer in just one step. =) here's a quick how-to:

  1. right click on your desktop
  2. go to new and then shortcut to luanch the create shortcut wizard
  3. on the textbox type, rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation
  4. click on next
  5. name the shortcut
  6. click finish

you can also add a keyboard shortcut so that you can lock your computer without using the mouse =)

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

lolomoblog!!!!! musta na? hi lang :)

-k the insomniac

12:32 AM  
Blogger mobile247 said...

great! thanks for asking =) sent you an email, btw...

8:26 AM  

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