CNET Editors' review
This privacy tool comes with a lot of different options for locking your desktop; however, we encountered a glitch with its virtual desktop feature.
Desktop Lock has an easy to use interface that consists of three straightforward buttons, one for locking the computer, one for configuring your settings, and another for activating your virtual screen. The lock options let you choose what to display when the desktop is locked, such as hiding windows or leaving everything in view. From there, you can also set your hot key combinations for locking and unlocking the program. You also can easily enter banner text to appear when the desktop is locked. When we clicked the lock button, our desktop was instantly locked, and only displayed what we permitted. Our chosen hot key combo reversed the command and our desktop was quickly back to normal. The virtual desktop is password-protected, and although we able to successfully enable it, we were never able to access any of the files and applications that we chose to make available.
The program comes with a reasonable 21-day trial, but with the problems we had with one of its primary features, we can't give it our recommendation. It cleanly uninstalled from our computer without any traces.
Publisher's Description
From TopLang software:
Desktop Lock is a computer security protection and access control software product, you can use it to lock computer to prevent people from accessing your private documents and resources. When the computer is locked by Desktop Lock, none can access your documents, browse your computer, or use programs on your computer. You can lock your computer by one click, or let Desktop Lock to automatically lock your system at any time or when system becomes idle. You can customize the appearances of the locked desktop with the options provided by Desktop Lock. Desktop Lock also supports hotkey to lock the system.
What's new in this version: Version 7.3 features new kernel components and UI system, smart disk, new schedule options.
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"Good product, but lacks few common things"
Version: Desktop Lock 6.1.12
Pros
This product is very easy to configure, I tried it with my windows XP. I liked its simplicity; it’s very very handy.
Cons
It will not hide window taskbar for god sake on the Virtual Screen mode, or if you try "Auto-hide your taskbar" on taskbar properties before launching virtual screen, then you can't reach back to put your password, you have to shut down your pc manually and re-start. And if you launch yahoo messenger or some program from your virtual screen, don’t bother to minimize it.
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