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How to lock your computer using command line

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11 Aug 2008
 by Cristina Mailat | in: Protection, Tutorials

Step 1 – Open a DOS promot for launching a special command line. One simple way you can do it would be by clicking Start/Run, typing CMD.

Step 2 – Enter  the command line for locking your station:

rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation

and your computer will be locked.

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Published: 11 Aug 2008  by Cristina Mailat, in: Protection, Tutorials Tags: , , RSS feed for comments on this post.

10 Responses to “How to lock your computer using command line”

  1. mike rlh August 27th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    how to unlock ? ?

  2. Rajesh October 15th, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    The information was very useful for me and helped me to develop a small tool which I hope will be very useful in my work.

  3. Siva September 4th, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    How to unlock ..?

  4. TsukameAkasuma October 13th, 2009 at 9:12 pm

    do yopu think i can make a batch of this?

  5. Ben Randolph November 4th, 2009 at 10:33 pm

    To unlock the stations just re-enter the username and password for the locked profile, this command is very useful when using remote software when you don’t have other means of locking the station being worked on.

  6. sridhar November 5th, 2009 at 5:54 am

    will it work in windows 7??…if not wt to do for windows 7???

  7. Cristina Mailat November 17th, 2009 at 10:13 am

    The application will work the method with the bat file depending on the rights on the system.

  8. Bernard the Great April 28th, 2010 at 1:41 am

    rundll32.exe is a windows-based dynamic library link…of course it will work on windows

  9. Marcus May 14th, 2010 at 6:49 pm

    …how to unlock?…
    press CTRL ALT DEL and log in just like normal…. :0)

  10. John August 6th, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    windows key + l also works and is much faster and easier

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