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Can a laptop have any unique no or ip address

Forum Laptops & Notebooks : General Discussion Can a laptop have any unique no or ip address

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Hello,
is there any possible way to track a stolen laptop

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not nicely, sorry. If you had tracking software on it before hand then there would be a chance, but today's crooks are generally smart enough to wipe the drive and throw an illegal copy of the OS (or at least use the restore partition) before pawning it off to someone. In all likelyhood all of your files (as well as the hardware) is gone. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news :(

Reply to CaedenV

Yes there is.
If you stole one and are worried do the right thing aand return it to the owner or the police.
There are ways to embedd tracking info into the bios chip, and no matter what you do it can be tracked via GPS. If you took one and dont return it you will get what you got comming to you.
Lots of laptops have the feature built in from factory.

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