Filed under: Security, Windows, Productivity, How-Tos
The shortcut to locking your Windows desktop
by Grant Robertson Jun 25th 2007
Here's a neat trick for those of you with a paranoid need to lock down your workstation on a regular basis. Sure, you could hit Ctrl-Alt-Del and click "Lock Workstation" but, that's a multi-keystroke + mouse kind of operation. Hackaback writes with a better and quicker way. Create a new shortcut anywhere you like on your desktop, and instead of giving the target to an application or document, use this: "rundll32 user32.dll, LockWorkStation". Name it what you will -- "Lock me!" comes to mind -- and you'll have a double-clickable icon that will instantly lock up your valuable data.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
