Want To Lock A MacBook Screen Instead Of Putting It To Sleep?

Question

The best way I found is to make a hot corner to start the screen saver. Then, you don't have to log off and stop all your services. You just come back and click the screen, enter your credentials, and... BOOM! that's it!!
Here's where you start. Click on System Preferences and click the Desktop & Screen Saver icon.
Then click on Hot Corners on the lower right corner.
Then, select from the dropdown menu the Start Screen Saver option for the corner you want it to be activated from and click Ok. For me, I selected the upper right corner.
So, now all I need to do is push my pointer to the upper right corner all the way for a couple seconds and the screen saver starts. When I get back, I just touch my mouse or touchpad and the password dialog box appears.

Answer 1

Basically all you need do is power everything down; modem, router, computers. Then power up in 2 minute sequences; modem, router, computers in turn. However, you should read the manual of your new Netgear router so you set it up properly. Having gone through this I can say it is quit easy. Don't use the CD supplied. Connect your Mac to one of the router's LAN ports; power the router and the Mac. Launch a web browser. You should get the router's admin page. default user name is 'admin'. Default password is 'password'. You should at least change the password so no one outside can gain access to your router. Then you should change the name of the SSID to whatever you want to call your network. Then you should set up your wireless access password protected. Then power every thing down and set up the network as above. There are tweaks you can add. If you have issues post back.