How do you lock the screen in Vista?
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
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Connie Neil - Apr 09, 2008 9:46:25 am PDT #5534 of 25501
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Vortex - Apr 09, 2008 9:52:22 am PDT #5535 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
ctrl-alt-delete, then select "lock screen". you'll have to set up a password.
Ginger - Apr 09, 2008 9:55:43 am PDT #5536 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Be sure to pick a password that the cat can't guess.
le nubian - Apr 09, 2008 10:16:56 am PDT #5537 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Connie,
windows-L will lock the screen. Very quick.
Vortex - Apr 09, 2008 10:23:16 am PDT #5538 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
you can also set your screensaver to password protect so that if you go away and forget, it locks the computer.
Laga - Apr 09, 2008 10:23:58 am PDT #5539 of 25501
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
our computers at work do that but it's a fifteen minute delay. Plenty of time for the cat to buy his own private island.
Connie Neil - Apr 09, 2008 10:27:55 am PDT #5540 of 25501
brillig
Plenty of time for the cat to buy his own private island.
Or a yacht. The Windows-L thing will probably work, it's something quick Hubby can do when he's hurrying off to do something. The PawSense default password is "human".
He's started closing the laptop when he has to leave, and the cats will then sit on the closed computer and glare because we've taken their fun away. It might be time to check the Internet history and see if one of them has set up a Facebook account or something.
Vortex - Apr 09, 2008 10:29:51 am PDT #5541 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
our computers at work do that but it's a fifteen minute delay. Plenty of time for the cat to buy his own private island.
heh. you can set it for however long you want.
§ ita § - Apr 09, 2008 11:44:41 am PDT #5542 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm in Excel 2003 and I select File/Send to/Mail recipient. Blah, blah, blah distraction, never send, close Excel, save changes, reopen that spreadsheet.
The whole mail header section is still there: To, CC, BCC, Subject, Attachment...and I can't work out how to make it go away.
I'm about to mail it to myself to see if that gets me out of the loop but that's insane! There must be a way to get that to go away.
(Yeah, emailing it to myself worked. But there must be a better way...)
Polter-Cow - Apr 09, 2008 12:02:35 pm PDT #5543 of 25501
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Anyone have a recommendation on a free site to send large files? I seem to remember sendspace, but any other recs?
Vortex, WOOfiles is pretty good. I got a 500+ MB file up there, no sweat.