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Everyone knows they SHOULD lock their desktop when they leave their desk, but how many people forget, or say its too hard. Well if this doesn't make it easy enough then we may need to get violent! You can give the user a shortcut on the desktop that will lock the desktop so they can quickly lock it any time they leave.

Right-click on the desktop and select New --> Shortcut. For the location of the item type the following exactly: %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation Use %windir% and do not replace it with C:\Windows or whatever you think should go there. Click next and give the shortcut a name and then click Finish.

 

Drag the shortcut to the Quick Launch area and the user can now lock the desktop with one click!





Published Friday, July 15, 2005 11:21 AM by rodney.buike

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Canadian IT Professionals said:

Hey everyone, it is Rodney here filling in for Sean with this weeks Friday Funny. Sean sent a frantic

September 14, 2007 11:28 AM
 

rip program said:

John Heasman of Next Generation Security Software (NGS) has reported that StarOffice versions 6, 7 and 8 are affected too and there is a fix available. Blog entry updated.

June 21, 2008 12:07 PM
 

www.dvdtocdpro.com said:

I held the power button for a few seconds to power up and entered into the exact same rebooting situation I had the other day.

June 22, 2008 11:00 AM
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