Hacksar

If you have ever used WordPress on any of your websites, you may have noticed that it likes to take over everything that’s in its subdirectories and redirect any error 404′s (file not found) to its own custom error page. This is a very big problem when you try to password protect a directory using an .htaccess file (or through cPanel). WordPress will grab that page and redirect it to “file not found”, since it asks you to log in (but WP doesn’t like that). Thankfully, there are two solutions that may work for you. Keep reading to see them.

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If you have always wanted to have a blog, but have been frightened that somebody who shouldn’t read it may read it, have no fear. There are always ways to protect your content. Sure, you can always use the .htaccess file to password protect the entire blog directory, but that looks ugly. You can also password protect individual posts, but then you have to do that for each one, and also your titles are not hidden. The most effective way to protect your blog would be to just allow access to only registered users, and then disable user registration (so that you have sole control of who reads your blog). You can do this without even installing a plugin, but by simply making a small tweak of one of your theme files. Keep reading for the guide.

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You may be paranoid about somebody else using your computer, and so to combat that, you just Switch Users and leave your computer on the log in screen. Also, you may have it set to go back to the log in screen once the screen saver kicks in, just for those times you forgot to log out. While this may be useful most of the times, it may not always cut it. What if you’re running some sort of intense process (like video encoding/conversion, for example) that you don’t necessarily need to interact with, but you just need to see how far it has progressed? Logging in every time you want to check that is a waste of time and energy, as, since the computer is busy with whatever it is processing, the login will be extremely slow and laggy.

On the other hand, if you simply don’t like the interface of the Window’s login screen (for some reason), or simply can’t access it easily, then this solution might be for you. My computer suddenly decided to stop letting me log out or even shut down the computer through regular means, so I had to resort to finding my own solutions. (It just freezes on the “Windows is shutting down” blue screen, if anybody has any idea why it may do these, leave a comment.)

I came across another AutoHotKey script that locks your computer with a password after either a certain amount of time, or if you give it the lock command. By lock, what it does is it places a white transparent cover over your whole screen and has an “Input Password” box in the middle. The AutoHotKey source is at the bottom of this post. For more information about how to use AutoHotKey, read the previous post on How to Control iTunes Remotely. Keep reading for the guide on how to use this computer locking script.

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