Lock Screen

I often want to password lock my screen, but not log out. OK, I can set the security preferences to lock the screen when the screen saver kicks in, but I don’t want to do that **every time** the screen saver kicks in.

Thanks to FourOhFour on #macintosh, I have a solution.

Open Keychain Access, open Preferences and check “Show Status in Menu”

You’ll now have a little lock icon in the menu which you can select “Lock Screen” from!

Perfect.

**Updated:** I have added a screencast to show how to set this up. [Watch](http://www.geeksrus.com/movies/screencasts/screencast0002_lock_screen.mov)