Windows 7 lock symbol on screen

All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Solution 1. Accepted Solutions. Community Accepted Solution. Replies 6. Fargo44 2 Bronze. In response to Fargo Awesome job. Have a picture of a lock ,that is one inch square in the middle of my screen ,that shows locking and unlocking. Have norton antivirus and antispam software. Cant get it off. Any suggestions? All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies 7. Denny Denham 7 Thorium. Click the "Customize desktop" button and on the Web tab of the dialog that opens see if there is any checked entry which might correspond to the symbol.

If so, select it and delete it. So, what I did was remove the back cover. You need to take out about 10 screws. Then I took a penny and I put it in front the button for the "X" and I put everything back together and it's working like a charm. None of the other keys work except for the power key but they didn't work anyway so I fixed my monitor for a penny. You can't beat that. Phnx34 2 Bronze. I'll save you a penny. The problem appears to be caused by dirty contacts in the buttons.

The result is a short circuit, which fools the monitor into thinking that the button s are being depressed. If you have a simple understanding of electronics, you can fix this in a matter of minutes at you own risk, of course. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources. To get the default logon screen back, just delete the backgroundDefault.

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