Re: Locking the Workstation

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On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 at 11:42 (-0700), Charles E. James wrote:

> I recommended to my users they lock their workstations when they walk
> away from them to help protect the systems as part of my security
> posture. It was mentioned that having to hit Ctrl+Alt+Del and then
> clicking the Lock Computer was a pain so I provided a work-a-round that
> works on both Windows 2000 and XP. I have prepared a pdf document just
> in case someone out there would like to use this little trick.

Charles,

On my Windows XP laptop, I just use <W>-L, where '<W>' is the Windows logo
key located (on my machine) next to the Alt key. So, whenever I leave my
desk, I just press '<W>' and 'L' together and the login screen comes up.
When I return, I must login with ID and password.

Is this not a standard feature, at least with Windows XP? I don't recall
ever doing something special to set it up (though I've been running XP on
this machine for many months, so I may be forgetting something).

Just curious.

Mike

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Mike Friedman System and Network Security
mikef@ack.Berkeley.EDU 2484 Shattuck Avenue
1-510-642-1410 University of California at Berkeley
http://ack.Berkeley.EDU/~mikef http://security.berkeley.edu
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Received on Thu Jun 9 13:04:55 2005