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How to LOCK your Workstation?

It is a good practise to lock your workstation to prevent misuse of your workstation for others' benefits. Especially if you've to leave your workstation unattended for a while, in which case your workstation is easily accessable to other people, like your colleague in office, your client, your student, your friend, etc. This article will show you a way to create an clickable icon (as one click solution) on your desktop to lock your workstation while moving away from your workstation. Follow the steps given below: Step 1 : To open Create Shortcut Wizard, right click on the desktop then select New and click on Shortcut in the menu. Step 2 : In Type the location of the item: type %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation and then click Next Step 3 : In Type the name of the shortcut: type Lock Workstation and then click Finish Step 4 : Now right click on the icon just created and click on Properties . Now in the Shortcut tab click the Change Icon button and i...

Virus removal technique for 'autorun.inf' virus

PROBLEM: My friend got a ghostly problem on his laptop. When he double click (i.e., left-mouse-key pressed two times) a drive, he always get the "Open With" pop-up window that says "Choose the program you want to use to open this file", while on right click the drive and selecting "Open", he get the same "Open With" pop-up window. SOLUTION: This malfunction is caused by a virus named autorun.inf So folks, who face similar kind of problem, need not worry since it is not a very serious problem. It can be resolved if you’d follow the following steps: Step 1 : Go to Start , click on Run Step 2 : Type cmd , to open the Command Prompt Step 3 : Type your primary drive name, for e.g., C: Step 4 : Type cd\ to reach at the root of that drive, for e.g., C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cd\ Step 5 : Type attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf , to change the file attributes, for e.g., C:\>attrib -r -h -s autorun.inf Step 6 : Type del autorun.inf...