Tired of your friends and collegues opening your personal messages and pics while they are borrowing your computer ?
Introducing Windows App Lock (WAL) - your trusty and personal .NET
app to lock custom desktop applications with the ease and convenience of Windows Hello
and the familiar Windows 11 UI through WinUI3
.
WinUI3
User Interface.As this application is still under development, the creation of stable and final release is still in progress. Till then, you can
clone
the project to your device and use it underdebug
mode. Please check again later for arelease
version on this page.
Follow the below instructions to set up the project:
git clone https://github.com/royishan2004/Windows-App-Lock.git
Open the solution file WindowsAppLock.sln
on Visual Studio.
dotnet add package CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls.DataGrid
Go to the Settings
page to configure your preferences.
Add the applications desired to be locked in the App List
page.
The application will monitor the specified applications and prompt for Windows Hello
authentications whenever necessary. For a record of the authentication requests and settings modifications, go to the Activity Logs
page.
Check out the Help
page for more assistance.
Windows 10 Version 1607
or above | Windows 11 Version 2H22
or above.NET 6.0
or aboveBackward Compatibility for previous .NET versions will be introduced in the releases.
Visual Studio Community 2022
with .NET Desktop Development
workload installed. [FOR DEBUG ONLY]
Windows Hello
enabled and setup.Windows 10 Version 1607
and above