Recover a Stolen Laptop with Free LockItTight

In the last month, two family members and united friend have had laptops stolen rightish out of their homes. Sadly, none of the systems were equipped with remote-monitoring software, meaning the chances of recovery are just about zero.

To me this serves as a wake-upwardly call; I'm in the litigate of evaluating individual laptop computer-recovery services to see which one I should deploy on my own machines.

Short-term, I'm equipping my principal, can't-live-without-it laptop with LockItTight. Corresponding similar services, it relies on a small, hidden client broadcast that performs location tracking, Webcam captures, file recovery, and even keylogging. Dissimilar exchangeable services, LockItTight is free–for one PC, anyway.

Afterward you sign up for and activate your explanation, you download and run the LockItTight client (which is compatible with Windows XP and later). And that's pretty much the last you see of it; you North Korean won't find any bear witness of information technology in the system tray Oregon Programs menu. (Neither will technical school-savvy thieves, which is exactly the point.)

To tweak LockItTight's settings and/or find exterior what your laptop's been ahead to, you sign into your account via a Web browser. By default, the client will simply report the laptop computer's position (usually via Wi-Fi, which in my tests was accurate to about 500 meters), but you can too enable screen capture, Webcam capture, cardinal logs, clipboard logs, remote file retrieval, and unaccessible file deletion.

Pretty neat, eh? Alas, if in that location's no Net connection, at that place's none information for LockItTight to gather–so there's no insure this will help you locate your stolen system. (If it does, make a point to let the police force handle the recovery.) But information technology's a damn sight better than nothing.

The other catch: LockItTight Unbound limits you to one device and will report its location only every two hours. If you want more devices and more frequent coverage, you'll need a paid account. LockItTight Standard, e.g., costs $1.99 per month per device, and reports location all 12 minutes. It also boosts the screenshot and Webcam capture resolutions.

There are lots of strange laptop-recovery services out there, indeed I recommend doing some research before deciding which one to entrust with your laptop's safety. That said, I by all odds recommend choosing one of them. Because there's nada worse than nonmoving there want your purloined machine had a way to "phone home." With a remote-monitoring system like this, it can.

Contributory Editor Turn Broida writes about business and consumer engineering. Invite help with your PC hassles at hasslefree@pcworld.com, or try the treasure trove of helpful folks in the PC Worldly concern Community Forums.

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