Simple Trick to Lock Your Computer Using Mouse

Simple Trick to Lock Your Computer Using Mouse
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 :)

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15 Responses to “Simple Trick to Lock Your Computer Using Mouse”

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Hey that is good one.. may be old but an another tricky way to lock down computer.

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This is really useful trick to make fun with friends. Thanks
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Yeah, this is really a cool trick. I was implementing shutdown -s -t trick on my school computers. Even this sounds great. Thanks indeed.
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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.

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Wow, never knew this shortcut trick! Will be setting it up on my home pc when I get home. What OS’s has it been tested on?
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nice trick..
Thanks for sharing.
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Is this an old trick? it’s new for me…nice one.
thanks!

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Really? Let me done this quick tricky.
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@Steve
This hack I have tested in Xp,Vista & Windows 7… Its working fine…

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It’s one of the logic think &
very nice,Thank U.

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Nice article,good to see ur interest in blogging,your website geekyard is kewl..

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This is new trick for me, i never heard it before. Thanks For sharing it.
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Thanks for share this trick, maybe it’s old trick but it’s raelly useful
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I am more like a pro keyboard user so…this is new to me…I use “win key + L”

anywaysthnx 4 sharing
:)

sharmila Elango | April 14th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
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Really its superb…..

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