How to quickly lock screen in OS X

Alright, here comes my first ever screencast. I know it didn’t come out to be the best and certainly was one of the worst attempt but hey, we all learn with times. Well, in this screen cast I’ve shown a very simple trick of how to quickly lock the screen in OS X. In Windows it’s pretty simple, we just have to press Window Key + L and the screen gets locked.

However, there is no such shortcut in OS X, so I’d to make use of the screensaver and the Hot corners. Check out the 1 min. video and see that how we can quickly lock the screen in OS X.

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2 Responses to How to quickly lock screen in OS X

  1. Dilip P says:

    I just close the macbook to lock it so that the display would go to sleep..

  2. Mark Wheadon says:

    If you would like to lock your Mac OS X session in a single key-chord (which I like to do — makes it as quick as possible) then here's how:

    http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/02/lock-scre…

    Cheers,

    Mark

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