Desktop Lock

Use Desktop Lock to lock your system, including the desktop, mouse, and keyboard, so people can't access your computer. This security product has helped many users protect their computers and manage access to their resources.

Desktop Lock is software for computer security protection and access control. You can use it to lock your computer to stop people from getting into your private documents and resources. Once Desktop Lock has the computer locked, no one can look at your documents, browse the computer, or run any programs.

You can lock your computer with a single click, or you can set Desktop Lock to lock the system automatically at any time or when the system is idle. Desktop Lock provides options to customize how the locked desktop looks. Desktop Lock also supports using a hotkey to lock the system.

Desktop Lock provides comprehensive settings for you to control how it will lock the system, and to customize the appearance of the locked system. The software is highly customizable with those settings; however, it is not necessary to understand every single setting to effectively use the software. Most of its settings are self-explanatory, and can be left to their default values.

Don't want people to use your computer?

Desktop Lock has been used by many users to help them protect their computers from unwanted access.

Keep people off your computer

Once the computer is locked by Desktop Lock, the keyboard and mouse will be totally unavailable. None can use your computer or access your private data.

People cannot unlock the system without the correct unlock hotkey and/or unlock password, and cannot terminate it with Task Manager. With its advanced features, it can keep locking even if someone forces a system reboot.

Limit users to using only the program you specify.

Desktop Lock can be configured to lock the system and launch a program or document, so that users can only use that specified program or document.

It also supports "Read-only" mode: users can only view the launched program or document, but cannot operate on it.

Customize the appearance of the locked desktop

With different lock modes, you can let Desktop Lock keep current contents of desktop, activate current screensaver, or clear the desktop and show a picture or video file.

You can customize the appearance of the locked desktop, such as background picture, banner, etc. You can also let it play audio or video media on the locked desktop.

Various ways to lock the system

You do not need to launch the main program and click the Lock Now button every time; there are various ways to lock the system:

Lock hotkey

Set a lock hotkey to lock the system without using the main program.

Schedule

Configure the schedule setting to lock the system automatically at the specified hours.

Auto-lock when idle

Enable this feature to lock system when you are away from the computer.

It's impossible for others to figure out how to unlock

Users must input the correct unlock hotkey and, optionally, the unlock password to unlock the locked system. The unlock hotkey differs from standard Windows hotkeys. It consists of a sequence of keys in any combination, such as your name, birth date, or any other difficult-to-guess information.

Beginning with version 8.0, Desktop Lock introduces the universal unlock hotkey that allows for the combination of both keyboard keys and mouse actions. Therefore, the following examples are all valid unlock hotkeys:

• A B C Contains only keyboard keys.
• Contains only mouse actions.
• A B C Has both keyboard keys and mouse actions.
• Two clicks of the left mouse button.
• A single mouse movement, like screensavers.

For more information about the universal unlock hotkey, see Unlock Hotkey in the help document.

Smart Disks

Desktop Lock supports creating smart disks for unlocking the system automatically. A smart disk can be configured to:

• Unlock the system automatically when it is inserted.
• Re-lock the just-unlocked system when it is removed.
• Show the unlock password window only when it's inserted.
• Anti-duplication: A smart disk cannot be easily replicated if you configure it to prevent duplication.
• Restrict the use of the smart disk to the computer on which it was initially created.

Smart disks are not smart cards. You do not need a special device to create them. You can use Desktop Lock to create them directly. They can be any kind of external disk (USB flash disks, USB hard disks, SD cards, etc.) and can still be used for storing personal data.

Other features

Some other features you may want to know about Desktop Lock:

• Leave messages on locked desktop.
• Lock and run screensaver.
• Paint on locked desktop.
• Internet time for schedule setting.
• Multiple users support.

Download Free Trial

You can download and test the fully functional evaluation copy to see if Desktop Lock meets your needs. It's easy to install and can be uninstalled at any time, as long as you have the admin password that you set yourself (the admin password protects Desktop Lock itself from configuration changes and uninstallation).

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