Quickly locking your Windows PC

re: Quickly locking your Windows PC

oldnewthing — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:50:47 GMT

The LockWorkStation function was not designed to be called by rundll32. You're actually corrupting the stack.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/15/58973.aspx

re: Quickly locking your Windows PC

Aaron — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:09:41 GMT

Isn't windows key + L simpler.

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Jas Dhaliwal — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:16:50 GMT

Here a few I use on my quick launch bar in addition to locking the computer.

** Shutdown **

Create a new shortcut and paste the following:

%windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -s -t 0

** Reboot ** (No sarky comments please!

%windir%\system32\shutdown.exe -r -t 0

re: Quickly locking your Windows PC

Weijun — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:29:59 GMT

It would be much more comfortable if the icon (or any clickable area) can be placed at a corner of the screen. This way I just push the mouse to the extreme and click, no need to locate the cursor anymore.

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stevecla01 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:46:23 GMT

aaron - yep, definitely simpler but not always faster when I have the mouse in my hand

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stevecla01 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:47:20 GMT

nice additions Jas. surely that reboot one is just restart after you've installed some new graphics drivers :P

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stevecla01 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:49:22 GMT

raymond - is there a better way?

Steve

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Jas Dhaliwal — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:05:25 GMT

Oops, yep meant a restart.

Bang on, Nvidia drivers and Bios updates always a pain and need a restart.

I've not had time to source with the Vista ResKit but are there any nice shortcuts for Vista?

One of my favourite tools on XP has always been robocopy.

Fab tool which you can use to mirror drives, great for backup purposes...

robocopy.exe /? for useful switches..

Au qualitaire

Quickly Locking your PC

Sarah In Tampa — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:44:30 GMT

Quickly Locking your PC

Noticias externas — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:48:41 GMT

I just saw a great tip on Steve Clayton's blog for quickly locking your Windows PC, so I just had

re: Quickly locking your Windows PC

ccatto — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:12:34 GMT

Hey Now Steve,

Nice to know.

thx,

Catto

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Will Hughes — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:51:44 GMT

Hah, yes, always lock your PC regardless of how long you're away from it.

I learned this from a very young age (on NT4) at school. The principle has carried over since then - and folks are often puzzled as to why I'm always locking my PC when I'm no longer paying attention to it. Even my home ones :)