Lock the hardware

Picture 1 of Lock the hardware Computer management based on licensing access to hardware with output ports is a particularly effective solution and is also a rare solution in today's computer management tools.

DeviceLock has the ability to control access to all hardware devices that have output ports on your computer, helping you completely own your computer.

DeviceLock will list hardware devices with the main output for you to choose from. These devices include: CD or DVD drives, floppy disks, hard disks, parallel ports, Serial ports, USB ports .

You choose one of the devices that DeviceLock has listed, then click the ' Set Permissions ' button with a key or press F2 to schedule the device management. Click on the ' Set Default ' button to bring up the green management schedule table of the day of the week and the time zone of each day.

Click the ' Add ' button to enter the User name you need to manage. Left-click on the time zones of the days of the week that you allow User to use that hardware or deselect by pressing the left mouse button.

For example , you only allow your child to use the computer to watch DVDs on the weekends from 6pm to 10pm, do the following: select the device on the DVD-ROM interface -> click 'Set Permissions' -> Set Default -> select your child's User account name -> Left-click on the 'All' box to completely delete 'Allow Time' -> right-click or drag the mouse repeatedly into the boxes from 6g-10g Let these cells turn green -> click Apply to accept and click Cancel to exit the main interface. Thus, the blue boxes are the time your child is allowed to use the DVD.

Do the same with other devices. For Serial ports that manage modem usage, you can schedule Internet access for others. Executing Parallel port means that you have reached the schedule of using the printer .

To manage more and more synchronously than other devices on your computer, you should use the 'Batch Permission' feature. This is a synchronous management of hardware devices on the same schedule.

Click on the two keys icon as the symbol of ' Batch Permission ' (or Shift + F2). The interface appears almost the same as ' Set Permissions ', but all hardware devices with output will be listed in full. With ' Batch Permission ', you can plan to manage one or more devices in a single schedule by marking the device to be affected. The operation process is the same as ' Set Permissions '. If you want to lock a certain piece of hardware, simply select the device and switch the word ' Full Access ' to ' No Access ', which is considered to be non-existent on the computer. DeviceLock only 'succumbs', ie it cannot lock the hard disk partition containing itself or Windows.

Users can also see DeviceLock as an extremely effective security tool because it has the ability to disable unauthorized "intrusion" attempts to 'sneak' data when there is no computer owner present.

Currently SmartLine Company is selling the latest version of DeviceLock 5.73 for $ 35. Users can visit http://www.protect-me.com/download.html to download a trial version of about 8MB. DeviceLock 5.73 is currently available at software stores.

HOANG KIM ANH