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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Lock your PC with a USB flash drive

Lock your PC with a USB flash driveWhile pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL then selecting Lock Computer is pretty easy to secure your Windows session, another better option is to use USB flash drive as a key lock. Your computer screen will go black whenever you removes the USB drive from the CPU and restore your session when you put back the USB key. Using free software like PREDATOR, you can make a USB key in a flash.


PREDATOR locks your PC when you are away, even if your Windows session is still opened. It uses a regular USB flash drive as an access key, and you use the same flash drive to protect several PCs.

Predator Preferences

It ask for a backup password in case you lost your USB key. On the preferences dialog box, type the password of your choice in the "New Password" field to set your backup password.

Predator Sys tray

You can change preferences or create new USB flash drive key anytime by clicking PREDATOR on Windows System Tray.

Download PREDATOR freeware.

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