01 Nov, 2008

Lock Your Compute Using Desktop Shortcut

Posted In: Tips Tricks

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Right click on an empty area of the desktop and choose ‘new’ -> ’shortcut.’  create shortcut wizard will open.

in the first text box, type ‘%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation’ and then give your shortcut an appropriate name on the next page, and hit ‘finish.’

You will notice that the shortcut you created has a blank icon. To select a more appropriate one, right click on the shortcut and hit ‘properties.’

In the ’shortcut’ tab, click the ‘change icon’ button.

In the ‘look for icons in this file’ box, type ‘%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll’ then click ‘ok’ to see a range of icons for your new shortcut.

Choose an appropriate icon.

it is useful if u have an account as it will prompt 4 a password

Now using this shortcut you can lock your computer at a rapid pace.

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