Acer eLock Management

Acer eLock Management provides you with a convenient way of obviating your data from being facsimiled to external storage media, such as an optical disk, flash drive or floppy disk.

Listed on the starting screen of Acer eLock Management are the contrivances you have the option of locking. Afore you can lock any contrivances, you require to define a password for Acer eLock Management. Do this by clicking the ‘Set Password’ button in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.

Once the password is set, the button changes to Change Password and you can transmute the password at any time by clicking the button, and entering the subsisting password. You will then be asked to enter the incipient password twice.

You can reset the system to its default settings (all contrivances unlocked) by abstracting the password (leave the password fields blank when transmuting the password). You can lock/unlock USB storage contrivances, the (USB) FDD, or optical drive.

If you have a personal removable storage contrivance that you utilize frequently with your computer, you can sanction it from the Authorization page so that it can be used even when removable storage contrivances is set to Lock or Read Only mode. Utilize the Settings page to set a sultry key to lock or unlock all contrivances. You can withal enable an auto lock timer that locks all contrivances automatically when the system has been idle for a certain time.

To sum things up, Acer eLock Management could be an application that may add some value for some users, but, in fact, it does that with very few. Thus, the need for such software or bloatware as many call them is limited. Not everybody likes Acer eLock Management even if they like the brand and this is why bundled software is viewed as bad software.