Automatically Lock the Computer When Hacked

This guide provides a practical overview of Automatically Lock the Computer When Hacked, including its main features, benefits, limitations, and important considerations.

1. Change Local Security Policy.

This Local Security Policy is only integrated on Windows 7 and Vista in Pro, Enterprise versions. If you use Start, Home. then you will have to use Command Prompt. You can automatically lock your device by editing the password settings in Local Security Policy.

To open Local Security Policy, click the Start menu and then type Local Security Policy in the search box. Then click Local Security Policy .

Local Security Policy window appears, click Account Policies on the left, then click Account Lockout Policy .

By default, when you enter wrong password, your account will be automatically locked immediately. To change this, double-click Account lockout threshold on the right side of the dialog box.

A new window appears and you can change the number of times you have entered the wrong password. Here I choose to allow the wrong password 3 times and then click OK to complete the changes.

Besides, Windows also lets you choose the time to unlock temporary user accounts. You can change these settings at Account lockout duration and Reset account lockout counter .

The default is after 30 minutes your computer will automatically open again, click OK to save your changes to the settings.

Now your computer will automatically lock in 30 minutes when you enter the wrong password 3 times.

2. Change the password setting in the Command Prompt.

To open Command Prompt, go to the Start menu, type Command Prompt in the search box, right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as administrator .

Or you can use the Windows key + R to type cmd in the Open section of the Run dialog box, and then click OK .

Then the dialog box opens, change the path to C: Windowssystem32 by cd. to return to the parent path, cd to add the child path to the parent path.

At the Command Prompt window enter net accounts command, the system will immediately list you for password-related settings. In that lockout threshold: Never means your computer will never be locked if the password is entered wrong n times.

To adjust the number of times allowed to enter the wrong password is 3 times you enter the command line net accounts / lockoutthreshold: 3 and press Enter immediately the system will notify the successful setup.

In addition, it also allows the computer to close and automatically reopen after 30 minutes when you enter the order in the order net accounts / lockoutduration: 30 and net accounts / lockoutwindow: 30 .

You can double check the settings by re-entering the net accounts command on the Command Prompt .

Here are the results when you use either of these two methods to set up.

- When you enter the wrong password:

- Enter all times prescribed and locked: You wait until the system allows logging in again.

Note: The above two ways are only to prevent unauthorized access, not to prevent fraudsters using methods to break into.