Windows Task-Lock provides a simple and inexpensive, but effective way to password protect specified applications no matter how they are executed. It is easy to configure and requires little to no modifications to your current system configuration. Administrator password is enabled for site licenses.
INSTALLATION
Copy the files sgllock.exe, sgllock.hlp, sglset.exe, boom.wav, tada.wav, and ding.wav to the Windows directory (usually c:\windows). Place the protection program, sgllock.exe, in your startup group so that it is executed whenever Windows 95 starts up or use one of the other methods detailed in the security section. Then, use the setup program, sglset.exe , to define your passwords and the tasks to protect. Once these steps are complete, reboot and you are ready.
If for some reason you wish to remove Task-Lock from your system just reverse the steps you took to install it. First make sure sgllock.exe is not running. Then remove the files you copied to the Windows directory. Finally, undo the method you used to get sgllock.exe to execute on Windows startup.
System Requirements: Windows 95
REGISTRATION
Windows Task-Lock is Shareware (see the Legal Stuff below). If you feel that this software will be useful to you please send $9.95 (US dollars only, this can be a postal money order, a check on a US or non-US bank, or currency as long as it is in US dollars) for individual license to the following address. Please include your email address, the complete product name, the product version, and the number of copies you require to insure prompt registration.
Stephen A Jernigan
PO Box 21015
Huntsville, AL 35824
USA
If you are writing a check please make it out to: Stephen A Jernigan
Site licenses are available at a discount and are handled on a case by case basis. If you are interested in a site license please contact me at 103672.2634@compuserve.com.
For CompuServe users!! Windows Task-Lock can now be registered online through SWREG. Simply GO SWREG and follow the instructions. The registration ID for Windows Task-Lock is 11147. Due to the CompuServe pricing structure, only single user licenses can be registered online and each license is $10 (US). If you are interested in a site license please contact me at 103672.2634@compuserve.com.
The following information must be sent along with your registration fee to insure prompt registration.
Email address (or postal if no email):
Complete Product name:
Product version number:
If a site license, number of copies to be used:
Please provide the name of the software you are registering, the version of the software, and your email address (or if you don't have one, your postal address) so you can be correctly registered. An email address will provide both of us with quicker and easier registration.
Please report any bugs, suggestions for improvement or new features you would like to see. I can be reached through email at 103672.2634@compuserve.com
- Version 1.0
- Initial Release
- Version 1.1
- Changed protection dialog title to contain the
window title of the task being protected
- Corrected a bug in the timing for a read of an
updated setup by the protection dialog software
- Version 1.2
- Corrected a bug in the focus of the protection dialog (sgllock.exe)
- Version 1.3
- Corrected a bug that caused erratic behavior in the protection
dialog software on Windows 95
- Version 2.0
- Corrects a bug that will allow CNTRL+ALT+DEL to terminate
the protection dialog
- Provides a task name browser for setup and error dialogs for
the protection dialog.
- Version 2.1
- Corrects a bug that allows ESC to terminate the program
- Version 2.2
- Added a Cancel button to the protection dialog and improved
security and usability thanks to userÆs input.
- Version 3.0
- Administrator password addition for site administration,
added a menu on setup and corrected bug in the error dialog.
- Version 3.2
- The password dialog (sgllock.exe) now runs from an icon in
the system tray instead of taking up space on the Taskbar.
- Version 4.0
- New Options: Sound on startup, incorrect password,
and task termination events, Stealth Mode, password
timeout, Administrator options to change the user or
stop passwords without knowing the current passwords.
Enhancements: Protection against running
multiple copies of sgllock.exe and task name matching
from the beginning or end of the task name string
(for example, allows filename.txt - Notepad to be protected
by defining the task Notepad).
LEGAL STUFF:
DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE
Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are expected to register. Individual programs differ on details -- some request registration while others require it, some specify a maximum trial period. With registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed manual.
Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware.
Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it.
DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT
Users of Windows Task-Lock must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "Windows Task-Lock is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of Windows Task-Lock."
Windows Task-Lock is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program useful, you must make a registration payment of $9.95 to Stephen A Jernigan. The $9.95 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. An example is that this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another, so long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time.
Commercial users of Windows Task-Lock must register and pay for their copies of Windows Task-Lock as a site-license. Site licenses are available at a discount and are handled on a case by case basis.
Anyone distributing Windows Task-Lock for any kind of remuneration must first contact Stephen A Jernigan at the address given for authorization.
You are encouraged to pass a copy of Windows Task-Lock along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a registration number to fully enable the latest version of the Windows Task-Lock software.
This software may be freely distributed as long as the following files are all kept together and unmodified and no remuneration is received by the person or persons distributing said software.
