Transparent Screen Lock: Look, but don’t touch!
Ciaran Moore - November 7, 2006Transparent Screen Lock is a program for locking your computer. Big deal, right? Theres a few programs that already do this,or you could just password protect the screensaver. The difference with this program is that it’ll still display whatever’s running. This just means that no one can interefere with it, so they can look, but can’t mess up the settings.
For home or office users i can’t think of much use, as this idea seems to lack any privacy, since anyone can still see what you’ve been working on, I dunno, maybe that’s not an issue with some people?
Though this does seem like it could be very useful for things such as demo computers on display in computer stores or at trade shows, It could be a tad cheaper but may be worth it to certain people in those circumstances, but the rest of us regular home users can find similiar things for free, or just stick with password protecting the screensaver!
This seems like one of those programs that’s very useful to certain people working in certain conditions like i mentioned, and not very useful to everyone else, althought it has some advanced features such as logging attempts at unlocking the computer.
Theres a standard and a pro version, they seem pretty similiar to me,so if you wanna check it out and get more detailed info on what it can do, go here.
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November 7th, 2006 at 6:41 am
Seems like a really solid program. I have been playing with it for a while and I still was not managed to break it! More interesting than this program is another one called Unlock Administrator by the same company. It allows you to specify who can unlock the computer (by default Windows only allows the current user, an Admin can unlock but that will close the current user). Unlock Administrator seems pretty much one of a kind as I have not been able to find something that does the same thing.