Last Updated on October 3, 2019 by Larious

Do you know that you can lock and unlock your personal laptop with a Universal Serial Board? The need for this arises when you do not want colleagues to access your documents, pictures, music and videos.To use a USB as a lock, the user will download predator which is an application developed to specifically lock and unlock a system. You can also use an inbuilt Windows system called Syskey.  Jovago.com, Africa’s No 1 hotel booking portal shares tips on how you can lock and unlock your computer with a USB.

Steps to Lock or Unlock Using predator

•  Download and Install Predator.

•  Insert the flash drive when predator launches.

• As soon as you insert the USB, a dialogue box will pop-up requesting a password

•  Use the flash drive to create a password and click on ok.

• You can safely remove your USB

• Unlock your system using the same password you used to lock it.

Steps to Lock or Unlock with sysKey

• Connect your Pendrive or USB to your system.

• Search for  run and type in SysKey

• An encryption dialogue box will appear, enable it then click on update.

• You can either use password startup and system generated a password.

• Select the system generated password and Click store startup key on a floppy disc, enter password.

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