What is Desktop-Lok

Desktop-Lok is a utility developed to lock your desktop when you walk 
away from your computer or when your computer starts up.  
When running it displays a Virtual desktop as a camouflage, 
making it seem as if the desktop is not locked.  When the user clicks
on one of the standard icons a dialog will pop up prompting the user 
for a password.  This utility also disables all multitasking keys so 
the user won’t be able to access the Taskbar, Task Manager or any 
application on the desktop.   


Please note: Make a backup of your registry files in case you forget 
your password or misspelled it, you can have access to your system.

New Features since previous version 

Two new features that have been added to Desktop-Lok 4.0.
	1. The user can now change the background color of the Virtual Desktop
	2. The user can specify wallpaper for the background of the Virtual Desktop as well.
To specify a graphic to be displayed as a wallpaper and or change the 
background color of the Virtual Desktop click on the Desktop-Lok settings 
icon and click on the background color button or on the background wallpaper 
button. 

Supported graphic types are JPG, BMP, PCX, WMF and GIF.  
Another feature is a message at the bottom left corner that displays "Virtual Desktop Active" and the time.  This indicates that Desktop-Lok is active.  Screen savers run on top of Desktop-Lok as if it were the actual desktop.
You can set Desktop-Lok to load when windows runs at startup.


Bug Fixes

Several bugs have reported by users, which support Desktop-Lok by using it. 
These bugs were security leaks and application failure. Some applications 
would come atop of the Virtual Desktop.  If you shut down Windows and Windows 
Explorer for example was not closed before shutting down, the application 
window would float over the Virtual Desktop allowing unwanted users to snoop 
in your workstation. It would bring up the start menu over the virtual desktop 
hence defeating the purpose of the application.
Another bug was when the user set an invalid file type as wallpaper.  
It would write the settings to the registry and the next time that the application 
ran and tried to load the wallpaper, it would cause it to crash.  Desktop now will
recognize invalid file types and will not write them to the registry. If and invalid 
file is specified, it will ignore the file type and clear the current setting from 
the registry although you can still specify a valid wallpaper while in the 
Desktop-Lok control panel.  When it loads the next time it will still safeguard 
your workstation regardless if you have specified wallpaper or not. 
These bugs however have been taken care of and this should not happen in the future.


Program status

Desktop-Lok © 1997 Coqui SoftDev /  Victor M. Vega Davila
Desktop-Lok is Freeware and may be distributed freely from any BBS, Shareware sites 
and on shareware magazines CD-ROM.

Standard disclaimer

The author of this program accepts no responsibility for damages resulting from the 
use of this product and makes no warranty or representation, either express or 
implied, including but not limited to, any implied warranty of merchantability or 
fitness for a particular purpose. This software is provided "AS IS", and you, 
its user, assume all risks when using it.

DISTRIBUTION

The product package may be freely distributed. Tampering with the code is illegal.
You may not disassemble, decompose, reverse engineer, or alter any of the files in 
the package.

COMMERCIAL USE

This software is provided as shareware and cannot be sold. This software can be 
bundled with any commercial package or distributed by itself or accompanying books
or magazines as long as the package is intact.

