How to create a Shortcut to locking Windows

Locking your windows operating system is essential in office and home environments in order to prevent others from viewing any potential sensitive information you may have on your computer. so to help you guys/gals out I've made an easy guide for locking your windows with a double click, single click or a desktop shortcut;

1. Create a new shortcut on your desktop using a right mouse click
2. Enter rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation in the location field.
3. Save the shortcut under whatever name you want.
4. When needed just double click on it and you are done.its locked.
5. If you're truly lazy, just press Windows+L and it should lock your system

enjoy,

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Automatically Kill Programs At Shutdown

I hate it when I'm trying to shut down my windows XP and i get that annoying pop up telling me that programs are still running, so I found a way to make windows automatically kill/end the running programs on shutdown. Just open regedit by going to start>run and typing regedit and navigating to HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Control Panel>Desktop directory in the Registry, and then right click on AutoEndTasks and select modify binary data, then change the value to 1.

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How to Remove Shutdown option in Start Menu

This is for those friends that tend to get a bit annoying, if you have access to their computer, with this guide you can remove the shut down option from the start menu
1.Go to start>run
2.Type in "Regedit" (without quotation marks)
3.Once in Regedit go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
4. find "NoClose", right click and select modify binary data
5. change the data to "NoClose"="DWORD:1"
then enjoy the look on their faces when they cant shut down.

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How to display Legal notice on startup

Disclaimer: I have not written this doc :) Found it somewhere on the information highway and saved it for Archival purpose!

Display legal notice on startup:
Wanna tell your friends about the do's and dont's in your computer when they login in your absence. Well you can do it pretty easily by displaying a legal notice at system start up:
REGEDIT
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system]
"legalnoticecaption"="enter your notice caption"
"legalnoticetext"="enter your legal notice text"

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this little guide Prevents users from running the interactive command prompt, Cmd.exe. This setting also determines whether batch files (.cmd and .bat) can run on the computer.

If you enable this setting and the user tries to open a command window, the system displays a message explaining that a setting prevents the action.

Note: Do not prevent the computer from running batch files if the computer uses logon, logoff, startup, or shutdown batch file scripts, or for users that use Terminal Services....

START > RUN > GPEDIT.MSC > USER CONFIGURATION > ADMINISTRATIVE TEMPLATES > SYSTEM > FIND PREVENT ACCESS TO THE COMMAND PROMPT > RIGHT CLICK > PROPERTIES > CLICK ENABLE > OK REBOOT




note: This will disable the command for all users including the local administrator. If you want to disable this for specific users only (and for XP Home users) make the change in the registry. Login to the account you want to change and create the following registry entries:



HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\

DisableCMD dword 0x00000001 to disable command prompt and batch files

or

DisableCMD dword 0x00000002 to disable command prompt but not batch files

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