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Two monitors on windows 7. Show desktop background when lock
When I lock computer first monitor shows sign "Press CTRL + ALR + DELETE to unlock", and second is just black. But I saw in some office that second monitor shows the desktop picture. How can I make ...
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Disabling modifier-lock with the Fn key on a Packard Bell Easynote?
I have a Packard Bell Easynote laptop with one extremely annoying feature. If I hold the Fn and then press a modifier like Ctrl it will lock the Ctrl, making every key I press a combo.
I personally ...
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No matter what i do, my laptop, windows 7, keeps going to the lock screen
How do i stop the computer from going to the lock screen? I have done all the idiot stuff, like turned off the screen saver, set the time for the sleep mode and all that. even did the advance stuff ...
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Ping-visible on unlock, ping-muted on screen lock (Win7)
When I login to / unlock my Win7, I need to switch the machine to ping-responsiveness mode.
When I pres Win-L key, i.e. lock the machine, I need it to ignore ICMP pings.
How to accomplish this?
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Lock Universal Access preferences
In OSX I am looking to try and lock the Universal Access preferences to help prevent those options from being enabled (color inversion, zoom, contrast, etc.).
Attempted to lock the Universal Access ...
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Is there a way to lock folder and all files inside for specific time?
Is there a way / tool to lock folder and all files inside for specific time to prevent any other program on PC to perform any actions? Something like anti-Unlocker tool for Windows.
I use Windows ...
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How to reduce/remove the delay until password dialog shows up after restoring
When I lock my Macbook (CTRL+Shift+Eject) the screen blacks out and the LED goes on.
When I hit enter then, the LED fades out slowly and after that I can enter my password.
Is the fading time ...
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Which program is locking all my executable files?
When updating any software product, as well as manually trying to replace .exe files, it says that access is denied to the file and in fact the System process is holding a handle to the file when I ...
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Can I set my Windows to boot without stop on password verification even having a user password?
There is some way to set Windows Seven to boot-up without asking for password(on password check phase) even if I have a password set on my account?
What I wan't to do with it is boot up without ...
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Why don't modern programs use scroll lock and pause keys anymore? [closed]
On the top right, there are two keys that I don't use at all:
Scroll Lock
Pause | Break
And two more that I rarely use:
Caps Lock
Num Lock (I leave it on most of the time)
Why do they still ...
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Delete a locked folder in a batch file
This question is an addition to
Delete locked file/folder from command line question.
Sysinternals Handle solution actually works in some scenarios. But as I'm working in a remote environment I'm ...
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Does Chrome Behave Differently When Locked or In Background
Does the chrome browser behave differently when the computer is locked, or the window is not in the foreground? I am noticing that page load slower in such use cases on windows.
If so can this be ...
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Lock access to a Windows 7 Professional computer
I'm trying to apply several restrictions on a Windows 7 Professional computer to be used as a kiosk I'm using a .bat file with several registry modifications like the ones detailed here
Example:
reg ...
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CLI Ubuntu lock screen after X minutes
Is there any way of making ubuntu (through CLI) to lock screen after X minutes?
I need to do so for example:
I'm watching a 2Hours movie, so I need to make ubuntu that after 123 minutes to lock ...
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Context menu item to lock/unlock files in Finder more quickly
I can change the file locking ("read only") status in a file's context menu:
There's no menu item for this.
How can I create a Finder (context) menu item to set, remove, or toggle this flag ...
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keyboard and mouse lock in windows 7 during simulations
When I run long simulations (perhaps for days), I would like to prevent any interference by locking the keyboard and possibly the mouse. I have seen posts like:
Lock keyboard - Ignore input, leave ...
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How do I find out any more information about file handles held open by the System process?
I have an app that writes data to a local disk file regularly. It always opens, writes, then closes the file. Recently I had an issue where it stopped writing data, and this was due to it being ...
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Local XP account randomly locks
So there's a computer on my network at work that has a local account on it. This computer is on the network but not on the domain. The account is used to create gift cards. At least once a week ...
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Create “homework only” account on Windows
Like most kids, my kids love computers, and if I let them, they'd camp out on it every waking hour Facebooking and playing video games. So we have an app that limits their time each day (trying to ...
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Will turning off my laptop's screen often burn out the inverter?
I have a program on my computer that automatically turns off my laptop's screen when I lock it - and I lock my computer almost whenever I leave it.The inverter in it has recently gone bad, prompting ...
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Windows Server 2003: this computer is in use and has been locked - disable it
Windows Server 2003 will lock the screen after ten minutes of idle time. In a production environment of course, this is NOT a problem.
Using Windows in a development environment, I don't need to ...
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/var/mail/$LOGINNAME.lock
I'm not able to view my inbox mails, I'm using Thunderbird.
I have checked the /var/mail directory files. There I saw the lock file. [username.lock] .
I have removed the lock file and restarted the ...
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VMWare ESX storage more likely to cause file corruption than installing directly on hard disk?
On a ESX+Windows server, I help administrate, there is an accounting program using binary file storage, rather than a SQL-db with well-tested ACID properties. The binary files often have data ...
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How do I secure an USB device to a computer so it can't be stolen?
At my workplace we have USB microphones attached to PCs in high traffic areas. We are looking for a lock to put on the USB port so that will hold the mic in place. This doesn't even need to be locked, ...
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How can I lock drive access on a computer?
I am currently in a far, far place away from home where I have my beautiful beast of a computer that hosts so many games, softwares, songs and... ahem, confidential stuff on different drives. I also ...
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Winamp control on windows lock screen?
Is there a way to control winamp in the windows lock screen?
When i press the play / pause button on my multimedia keyboard it control winamp, but not when the computer is locked.
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how to copy file if it is locked by another process
I have some strange behaviour in Windows 7, I can't copy my file or folder if they are locked (some process is using them) how can I disable this feature?
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Information about locked folder or file
if I have, for example, some locked file or folder, how can I get information about who locked (it is in use by another program) my file or folder without having to install other programs?
Is there ...
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Can I lock a user to one site only in Chrome?
I want to prevent users of my personal Google Chrome browser from navigating away from the defined homepage except for refreshing the page.
More "for science" than anything else - how can I do this ...
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How do I find out what opened the file I try to remove on Windows 2000 Server? [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
How do I delete a 'locked' file?
Tool to determine what has locked a file
While trying to remove an empty directory on Windows 2000, I am told that I can't do ...
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Windows XP password protection lockout
We are working on client-provided VMs. We connect to these VMs using Remote Desktop, and each VM is running Windows XP.
After some time, the machine gets locked and we need to re-enter the password ...
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Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit
I'm trying to install wireshark on Fedora(latest version with gnome3) and I keep getting the above error.
I keep killing the offending process after finding it's pid using "ps aux | grep yum", but ...
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Windows 7 64 bit enterprise lock sceen without password field
I lock my notebook and the lock screen will be sometimes without password field, so I cannot enter anymore. It looks like there would not be usericon and textfield and button there. Have you ever seen ...
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Is there a utility which locks keyboard and mouse without locking the screen?
I need to be able to be sure that the machine cannot be interfered with whilst I am away, but at the same time the screen should be able to be seen, to see check progress.
The closest thing I have ...
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Taking out hard drive from laptop before giving it for upgrade/repair
Is it ok to take out the hard drive from laptop before giving it to repair or update? I've to upgrade my RAM and need to check CMOS battery which maybe the cause of my laptop screen to go blank on ...
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My computer doesn't lock after hibernating
How can I re-enable this feature? I have password on my account!
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PDF-XChange Viewer, pdflatex, Windows XP Pro SP3
Howto make pdfxcview.exe not lock .pdf files
or
force pdflatex ignore locks (and thus be able to overwrite .pdf files) ?
See also this thread
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How to purposefully exclusively lock a file?
I want to hold an exclusive lock on a file so it cannot be read or written by anything else. Is there a simple Windows tool or command to do this?
I suppose the tool or utility would implement the ...
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Windows 7 Lockdown Software
I am developing an application for a customer in WPF. I need a 3rd party software to run next to my application, that locks down windows, so that users can't exit the program using any key ...
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Gnome 3 locks selection no more left click
Hi i have a problem in my Gnome 3 Fedora 15 installation. I've tried both Mesa and nvidia drivers from rpmfusion and the problem persist, so I suppose it is an issue with the desktop manager.
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How do I make Windows-L hotkey activate my screen saver while locking the workstation?
I am using Windows 7.
Currently, the Windows-L hotkey shortcut takes me to a blank Windows screen telling me to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to unlock the computer (requiring my password).
I want to override ...
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How to lock a RHEL 5.3 workstation
I get option to SUSPEND/HIBERNATE or reboot/shutdown. Isn't there something similar to locking as in windows.
I don't want to log out each time I want a break(think bathroom, drink).
I would expect ...
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flock: bad number: myfile.lock
I try to put a lock on a file like this:
flock -e myfile.lock
The result is:
flock: bad number: myfile.lock
Doesn't matter whether file exist or not, or whether I'm root. I even tried chmod ...
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Is it possible to have an 'enter password' prompt in Windows 7 only while locked workstation, not while system start up?
So I would like to be able to click 'lock workstation' (I've even assigned a key on my keyboard for that so it takes a fraction of a second) and leave the computer and if anybody wants to use it he ...
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Remove matrix screen locker
I wonder if anyone here experienced problem with remote destop usage, when you try to take control of the server remotely, but the program like matrix screen locker doesn't let you to do it, even if ...
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How to take a snapshot of a directory on Linux as it was at a particular point in time?
I have a directory containing a lot of result log files (directory size ~ 4GB), and a set of processes running that keep on writing to these files.
To be able to correctly analyze the results at a ...
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How can I make it difficult to install a new operating system on a certain computer?
I want to host a website on a desktop computer running Ubuntu with a Windows virtual machine. I will give away the computer in exchange for a number of months of remote web hosting. I want to add some ...
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lock screen vs logout in Linux
When one locks the screen under Windows, it is redirected to the same screen as in the login. Under Linux, a program is run that "captures" all the mouse and keyboard events. While xcreensaver does ...
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Laptop Locking Up
I am having a very weird issue on a Lenovo W510 laptop. It will lock up randomly. I have had it lock up during post, during the boot-up of Linux, during login, and after the login. The following are ...
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How to Lock folders on external hard drive?
Is there any tools for do this?
(only for some kind of locking tool, not an encryption tool)
