Windows App Lock

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.

Features

• Lock specific applications installed on your device as per your wish.
• Maintain comprehensive logs on the access requests and settings of locked applications.
• Interactive notifications to keep you updated on important security actions.
• Authentication settings for the control app so that you can choose for your securtiy setup to not compromised with.
• Convenient management settings like compatibility check, auto-start options, etc.
• A comprehensive help page with support contact options.
• User-friendly, sleek and native WinUI3 User Interface.

Get Started

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 under debug mode. Please check again later for a release version on this page.

Installation

Follow the below instructions to set up the project:

1. Clone the repository to your device.

   git clone https://github.com/royishan2004/Windows-App-Lock.git

2. Open the solution file WindowsAppLock.sln on Visual Studio.

3. Resture missing Nuget packages. Eg:

   dotnet add package CommunityToolkit.WinUI.UI.Controls.DataGrid 

4. Build the solution.
5. Deploy the app on your device.

Usage

1. Launch the application.

2. Go to the Settings page to configure your preferences.

3. Add the applications desired to be locked in the App List page.

4. 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.

5. Check out the Help page for more assistance.

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Screenshots

Requirements

Software

• Windows 10 Version 1607 or above | Windows 11 Version 2H22 or above
• .NET 6.0 or above

Backward 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.

Hardware

• Basic CPU, RAM, HDD/SSD configuration to run Windows 10 Version 1607 and above
• Fingerprint Sensor [OPTIONAL]
• Webcam supporting Facial recognition [OPTIONAL]