Today lets see a simple trick on how to lock your PC using mouse click.We normally use Alt+Ctrl+Del or Windows+L to lock our PCs.Instead of trying those windows keyboard shortcut keys to lock Pc, lets now tryout something new 😉 .Some might have already know this trick already…
1. Just Right click on the desktop, point to New and click Shortcut.
2. In the Create Shortcut dialog box, copy the following into the ‘Type the location’ of the item text box:
“rundll32 user32.dll,LockWorkStation” remove quotes while typing.
3. Click Next.
4. In “Type a name for this shortcut”, type LOCK MY PC and Click Finish
5. Now just double click on the icon, your desktop will be locked.
Though this is a age old trick.It makes some difference to newbies 🙂
Hey that is good one.. may be old but an another tricky way to lock down computer.
This is really useful trick to make fun with friends. Thanks
Yeah, this is really a cool trick. I was implementing shutdown -s -t trick on my school computers. Even this sounds great. Thanks indeed.
Although, as you said, the trick is old, I haven’t heard about it. I have never thought about the necessity to lock my pc but now when my daughter is growing, maybe it’s a good idea.
nice trick..
Thanks for sharing.
Really? Let me done this quick tricky.
@Steve
This hack I have tested in Xp,Vista & Windows 7… Its working fine…
It’s one of the logic think &
very nice,Thank U.
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Thanks for share this trick, maybe it’s old trick but it’s raelly useful
I am more like a pro keyboard user so…this is new to me…I use “win key + L”
anywaysthnx 4 sharing
🙂
Really its superb…..
Very nice
press Start + L
how to unlock it ??