How to lock the c prompt?

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Published on 2010-06-04T16:59:33Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 17:42 UTC
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Is there anyway to lock the command prompt? I need my computer to require a password to use the command prompt.

I lock the workstation occasionally but sometimes I forget and if I could just prevent my roommate from doing the "c: net user user *" to change my password it would be great.

I do not want to have to use the rundll.32 user command with script to automatically lock the computer. Just a way to lock the c prompt.

Sorry for not saying this earlier, I'm running a vista 32bit Asus gene II motherboard with a core i7 CPU

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