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How To Lock Your Computer With USB Drive

Tired of people starting your computer when you are not around and messing up custom settings? Wouldn’t it be cool if you could lock your computer by just removing your USB stick from it? I’ll show you how you can use your USB stick, Flash Drive or Pen Drive what ever you call it   to lock your computer , among other things… Boot Lock   This trick will allow you to use your USB to BOOT into Windows. If someone tries to start the computer without your USB stick, it will display boot errors. Before begin, you  playing with the BIOS and boot files of your computer may result in you not being able to boot into your Windows partition; so continue at your own risk!  Things you need: A 64MB or larger sized USB Stick, Windows Recovery Disk (just in case). Unhide hidden and protected files  : Go to Tools > Options > View , check Show hidden files and un-check Hide protected system files. From the drive where Wind...