How to Temporarily Lock your PC when Someone Enter
Wrong Password
When you are
away from your desk somebody (colleagues,friends) may try to login into
your computer by guessing your password.We will use windows security settings
to temporarily lock your computer if wrong password entered more than couple of
times.This will make it harder to guess your password as after 3 wrong
passwords your system will get locked for 30 minutes
How to Lock your PC when After Wrong Password Attempt:-
- In the Start up search
box type Local Security Policy and press enter.
- From the left window pane
expand Account Policies and select Account Lockout Policy
option in it.
- Now in the right window pane
look for the Account lockout threshold option and double click
on it.
- A new window will be open and
give the value after how many invalid password attempts you want to
lock your computer.
Click on Apply button and a window will be open
telling you Account will lock down for 30 minutes. You can also change the time
settings by clicking on the Reset account lockout counter according to
your need.
- Now click OK.
That’s it.
Now your computer will be temporally locked for some time that you had
set in the settings when someone will enter wong password.