Lock My PC™ – Lock your computer when you leave it unattended

Lock My PC™ is an easy in use and compact tool for quick computer locking when you leave it unattended. It shows a lock screen, disables Windows hot keys and mouse. You can lock your PC with a hotkey or from the system tray. To unlock the computer you must enter correct password only. Unlike another similar computer lock software that cannot lock Ctrl+Alt+Del on a computer running Windows XP, our Lock My PC runs own keyboard driver to block such key combinations.

Features and benefits

We built new release of Lock My PC to implement old features better and add some new great features to the program.
Here the main features and benefits of Lock My PC software:

• Quick and safe computer lock by a hot key, or mouse click
• Windows 2000 and XP support (unlike our competitors we use keyboard driver to safely block Ctrl+Alt+Del and other key combinations)
• Administrative area for users and password management by supervisor
• Multi-user support
• Multimonitor support
• Autolock when computer is idle
• Auto turnoff when computer is locked for a long time
• Custom Lock Screens
• Screen saving effect
• Screen transparency – to use PC in presentation mode
• Optionally password protection for program settings
• Optionally locking for CD/DVD-ROM doors while computer is locked
• Command line options
• and many more

Difference from internal Windows XP computer lock feature

A lot of users believe that Lock My PC (as well as any other third party computer lock software) is useless because Windows XP has integrated computer lock feature.

Well, indeed, you can simply press Win+L on Windows XP computer keyboard and your screen will be safely locked. What advantages Lock My PC has over Windows computer lock?

1. A supervisor can unlock the computer (with administrative password) without closing user session. If you use Windows XP computer lock, a system administrator can unlock computer but the user session will be terminated.
2. If you share your user’s account with others (it’s common for home PCs), Windows XP lock feature is useless, because your folks will be able to unlock your computer easily.
3. Unlike Windows XP, Lock My PC can display different lock screens (including transparent lock screen) – it allows to use your computer as a presentation machine – you can display your own information for your clients and nobody will access your desktop.
4. Command line support allows you to use Lock My PC in Internet kiosks.
5. You can lock CD/DVD ROM doors along with the desktop, keyboard and mouse – this can prevent CD media from being stolen while you are out.

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