


Then, you’d find the user icon and click that as well. If you wanted to lock your computer screen in Windows 10, you could head on down to the Start menu and click. The first method is the long-form one and the second is the quick and easy keyboard shortcut. Basically, if I wanted to lock my computer today, there are two primary methods for going about this. It was the mouse movement that didn’t really sink in. Thinking back, I can remember the primary stumbling block for so many of us.

We eventually got the message and did as we were told. The higher ups and the company had to insist we lock our screens when we left our desks.

But while we agreed, adoption was terrible. Unsavory folk could sit down behind virtually any PC and do any number of terrible things. We didn’t argue because we saw the pitfalls of leaving a computer unguarded. About half way through my nine month stint, the company decided that it was critical that we, as employees who worked on computers, lock our screens each and every time we left our desks. Back in the late 1990s, I used to work for a huge insurance company down in Atlanta, Georgia.
