Suppose your laptop was stolen by someone from the coffee shop you visit regularly. Of course you can give a complaint to the police. But you can have your own mechanism to track your stolen laptop. A free and 100% secure software application can help you to recover your stolen laptop. You can install the application named Adeona in your lap top. This will run as a process and will send the location of your laptop to adeona server at regular intervals of time. A recovery tool will help you recover the location details.
How to obtain and install adeona?
Go to http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/downloads.html and download the free adeona for your operating system. Run the setup file.
Install both client and recovery tool in your laptop.
Here you are asked to enter the password using which you can open up the location details.
You will get a screen like this when adeona is successfully installed.
At the same time you can see a file created in your lap top as shown below.
This file contains the retrieve credentials that is needed for the retrieval of laptop location details. So it is better to email a copy of this file to your personal email as shown below.
In order to retrieve the location details you have to run the recovery tool installed at some other machine.
Enter the password and click next to get the location details of your stolen laptop.