People usually forget to lock their desktops when they leave their desks for some time and an open desktop could be a real threat and could have serious consequences. One should always lock the screen ...

What? Only three choices? (the maybe's can choose Taco!) This is an operating-system-agnostic poll, PC, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, whatever you use as your home computer. For the purpose of this poll, ...

There are many options when it comes to locking a Mac, from simply closing the lid to keyboard shortcuts. You'll need to set up a password for your Mac before you can ...

One of America's top defence research institutes, Sandia National Laboratories, has unveiled a combination lock with a difference -- it's the size of a shirt button. Using microelectromechanical ...

Does your Windows PC get locked automatically too often? If that’s the case, then it’s probably because some setting in the computer is triggering the lock screen to appear, even when you leave it ...

To help protect the data on your computer in a work environment, Windows 7 includes a feature that locks the operating system and requires your Windows password to ...

Windows XP is just like any other operating system -- at any given time, it's performing hundreds or thousands of processes. When any of these processes conflict with one another or fail, your ...