Lock Me

Lock Me is a small software application designed specifically for Windows 8 and 7 users in order to help them lock the screen by password-protecting the information and applying a Metro or iOS interface.

Look for the utility in the system tray

You can find the program sitting quietly in the system tray without affecting your work and disturbing you with notifications. There’s no support for a help manual so you need to experiment with the built-in features in order to understand how it works.
Lock Me’s configuration settings can be accessed via the system tray area. In addition, you can activate the lock mode with a left click on the tray icon.

Configuration settings

The application gives you the possibility to set up a master password in order to protect the content of your sensitive files while you are away from your computer. However, you should know the protection level is quite low because you can open Task Manager and close the utility even if it is password-protected.
You can opt for a Metro or iOS user interface and adjust the opacity level, as well as make the application show the battery and network connection status directly in the lock screen.
What’s more, you can view the time and date, set a custom image as your background wallpaper, as well as zoom, stretch or tile the picture. The photo can also be previewed in the main window.
We have tested Lock Me on Windows 8.1 Pro and noticed that it carries out a task quickly. It doesn’t eat up a lot of CPU and memory so the overall performance of the computer is not hampered.

Bottom line

All things considered, Lock Me delivers a simplistic approach for helping you lock your screen with a password and set an image as your wallpaper. On the downside, the program’s lockdown capabilities can be easily bypassed, so you risk ending up with private data leaks.