which comes back to my Orig Post, Its simple, and gives you a fighting chance of getting your laptop back, there are what if`s and "possibles" but i`m sure glad i had the freeware installed as the idiot:-
a) failed to format before use (cause he was either nosy or stupid)
b) didn`t have to enter a login password as i wanted someone to open it easily in order for the software to work
c) was ultimately a thief and was caught out easily
I luckily didn`t have any data on it as i am fully aware that these things go missing due to
cu+_@ in the world, however wanted at least to have the opportunity to find out what happened to it.
If i found out he had gone abroad, (i.e the tourist thief) then i would have just gleaned what info i could and
suggested he returned it (armed with the sites he accessed i
couldhave made his life a misery for some time, and if he complained then even better, the cops seeing a serial number of a stolen laptop would have been the icing on the cake.