did you ever have to lock you computer when ever you leave it.

At work, I always lock my desktop when I leave my desk. Being in a higher and reputed post, I handle most of the important documents in our office. So I can never leave my laptop as such, when I move away from my desk. So I have changed the settings in such a way that my desktop locks whenever it is unused for more than 3 min. This helps me a lot. SOmetimes I would be required to work at my laptop and looking out for hard copies for some data.In that case alone, I uncheck the lock mode.Otherwise it is in lock mode only. Security of data is more important indeed.

When I am at work I have to lock my computer whenever I leave my desk for any reason. It's actually part of my working agreement and I have no choice. But at home I never worry about it cos there's never anybody around to need to be concerned.

well when i am at work i do that every time and that is very important. but it is more important when you lock it when you are home

I lock my computer at work when I go out to lunch but I don't if I leave my office for a minute to go to another part of the building. The only reason I lock it is because I don't want someone to accidentally mess up something I'm working on with one of the online programs I use. Most of our contracts are stored under my network login so, if my boss needs to look at something, she usually asks me to pull it up on my computer. If I'm away from my desk she will find me or wait but, if I'm out to lunch I force her to wait until I return. That has only happened once. She knows why I lock my computer and she agrees that it's a necessary safety precaution since she's not very computer literate and the online programs I work with involve lots of money coming out of and going into different accounts.

No,I usually don't lock my computer when I leave it .It is apparent that the content of computer screen is relational to the work. and I know no body will use it in my office. but if I have a privacy in the computer maybe I will lock it .

For safety purposes, I see to it that my computer is locked while in idle mode.You can't be too trusting especially when private files' vulnerability is compromised.In computing,confidentiality should be most considered.

All my computers are at home, and I also work from home, so I never have to worry about that. I once locked it by accident when it was new... Usually when I know I am going to be gone a while but I want to come back to it just like it was without having to boot it set everything back up again, I just use the "sleep" or "hibernate" feature.

I always lock my computer . and keep myself safe..

I lock my computer at work when I leave my desk for security purposes, but I never worry about it when I am at home.

if there's no person other than me or if i'm with the person who doesn't know how to use the computer, i just leave it as it is but if there's a person who knows how to use a computer then i'll lock it up by putting a password in it

Well, yes, I will leave it running.. But if I am on myLot discussing something personal. I will switch to another site. Other than that, it will stay on the site that it is on.

I ALWAYS DO THAT!!! I do not want other people be able to see what I am typing or saying to any of my friends. I love to have my private life remain private. :)

yep,it's very necessary and important to do so, somebody always be interesting in what u've stored in your computer whether those ones are of their business or not.So it's a better way to lock our computers when we leave.