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September 27th, 2002, 07:48 AM
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| How to: Lock your screen If you go to Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app then go to show package contents /Contents/Resources/Keychain.menu double click Keychain.menu and you get a small lock icon in the menu up by the date/time. It activates your screen saver with password protection, even if your system prefs are not set up to lock it normally. I have seen lots of threads from people wanting to know how to do this, it turns out apple did provide a way!! There doesn't seem to be any way to activate this feature from within the keychain app so showing package contents is the only way of loading the menu item. From the menu you can then lock the screen
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September 27th, 2002, 09:42 AM
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| Nice find!  |
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September 27th, 2002, 11:13 AM
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| or just go open KeyChain Access then click view on the menu bar and drag down to "show status in menu bar" And yes that was a great find. Wish there was a shortcut to it though. guess i can't be too picky, though. One step at a time. Ver |
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September 27th, 2002, 12:21 PM
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| there is a short cut locking the screen this way is the same as password protecting the screensaver. just turn on password protection in the screensaver pref pane and set an activation area. i have my machines set so that whenever i walk away from my desk i just push my mouse pointer to the upper right hand corner and that activates the screensaver...then when i return i move the mouse or hit a key and i ma prompted to enter my password... simple.
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September 27th, 2002, 07:57 PM
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| lol i have the exact same setup... to keep the prying eyes of my suite-mates away from my stuff... hehe.. i love it, as i stand up i just toss the mouse to the upper right
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October 6th, 2002, 02:48 PM
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| hey thanks guys, I've been looking for something like that. I don't want my screen saver allways password protected, but for the times I do, this is nice - easier than turning on password screen savers and then activating it each time.
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November 28th, 2002, 02:41 AM
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| Ok so now... How do I take the lock out of the menu bar again? Very cool by the way! |
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