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Lock My PC Administrator's Guide

Why administration

If your computer is used at the office or/and by several users, Lock My PC administration tools give the following benefits:

• Administrator can unlock a PC with the administrator's password (without automatic user log off as Windows NT does)
• User's passwords may have limited lifetime - it will increase safety of the system at all
• Each user account may be locked at startup in multi-user environment
• Even if a single user uses Lock My PC at home such features as a password age and administrator password are useful.

Administrative options

To enter Lock My PC Administrative Area please run Lock My PC Administrative Area shortcut. If you don't have Administrative Area shortcut installed just run Lock My PC program file with "/a" command line parameter (C:\Program Files\LMPC\lockpc /a). The program will prompt you to enter Lock My PC administrator's password you have specified when install. If you enter a correct administrator's password "Administrative Area" dialog will appear.

User password expires in XX days - Lock My PC will ask users to change their personal passwords when XX days elapsed since the last password changing date.

Remind users to change password XX days before - Lock My PC will be asking users to change their personal passwords XX days before the password expiration date (see the previous option).

Clear current user password - clears current user Lock My PC password. This option is useful when a user forgot a personal Lock My PC password.

Change Lock My PC administrator password - changes Lock My PC administrator password. With administrator password you can unlock a PC just as you unlock with a personal password.

Always Lock Computer at startup (for each user account) - Lock My PC will lock each user account when a user switches computer on and log in to Windows. This options works like Lock at startup option in Lock My PC settings but it lock each user account.

Ask administrator password when uninstall

Users can not change their settings

Set default user settings

Disable Safe Mode and Windows Boot menu (Windows 98/ME)