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Quickly lock your keyboard and keep your work safe from the kids

Published in Windows XP Miscellaneous Tweaks by TweakXP Member with 12,253 views and 2 comments
Windows logo key+L locks the keyboard and mouse.

Ever wanted to lock the keyboard so your kids can't mess things up when you leave the room!.
I've been looking for a solution to this problem for some time as my 18 month old son cant keep his little fingers off my keyboard or the mouse.
Basically what happens is when I leave the room say to make a coffee he rushes over and messes around presing keys moving the mouse etc., when I come back I find he's either restarted the machine or quit out of the program I was using at the time, thus losing any work I might of been doing (AAARH!).
But!, not anymore just hold down the windows logo key and press L and it will take you straight to the logon screen, then it doesn't matter what anyone presses unless the know the password.
 
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cheetos
3 years ago
but if u press the TAB key the tab move to the profile selection or to "TURN OFF COMPUTER" then key pressing will affects
Paul
One year ago
is one more option which turning on you 100% prevents from kids.
Go to start -> run then type "control userpasswords2" and in advanced tab tag "require users to press CTRL+ALT+DEL". Then you will able to turn off PC or enter in it only by pressing CTRL, ALT and DEL in same time and then by entering password. Shutting down computer is not possible while you are not loged in. Good luck