Re: How to Lock Keyboard?



In news:80A8288F-71FC-4675-87E2-4DFB6A93804D@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Mark Nave <MarkNave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I have two workstations using windows 2000 pro and one using xp pro.
> Is there a command I can use to lock the keyboard so a young child
> won't mess up things?

WinKey + L will lock the entire desktop and, assuming they don't know your
password, will prevent them from harming the system though you will find
they can still pound on the keyboard but it won't hurt anything unless they
spill juice on it.

Galen
--

"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."

Sherlock Holmes


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