Thursday, May 15, 2008

Shortcut key to Lock your Computer

Sometimes we have to leave the important work on computer in hurry for a while and of course leaving computer open without locking or shutting down is at great risks, if someone mess up with our current working data or any project then we’ll be at great losts. Yeah almost all computer users are afraid of this scenario but now there is no need to fear as we can lock our computer just by double clicking the shortcut icon on the desktop to quickly lock the keyboard and display without using Ctrl + Alt + Del or screensaver.

Here’s the simple steps to create a shortcut on your desktop to lock your computer:-

  1. Right click on the desktop.
  2. Point to New and select Shortcut.
  3. You will then see a Popup Window(Create Shortcut Wizard).
  4. In ‘Type the location of the item’, key in ‘rundll32.exe user32.dll LockWorkStation‘.
  5. Click ‘Next’ and you will be prompt to name the Shortcut. Give it any name you want and click ‘Finish’.

shortcut key to lock your computer

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