How to Delete All Data Remotely From a Missing or Stolen Laptop?

When it comes to digital world, security is one of the most important factor to consider. So today I'm going to discuss something related to your data security in laptop. We may have come across many situations where our friends or known persons say their laptop has been stolen from somewhere or we see people asking help in social media or forums to find the stolen laptop.

If you haven't installed any location tracking software or other tracking tools in your laptop before it gets stolen, then its hard to find the laptop in most of the cases. Sometimes even if we install tracking software in our laptop, it might become hard to track the laptop if the thief is technically expert. So its always best practice to have any application installed in your laptop which let us to wipe all the data remotely in case we fail to find the missing laptop. This best practice helps to protect our privacy even after losing the laptop.

So in this article, I'm going to introduce you a software which will let you to wipe all the data remotely in few seconds after the laptop is missing or stolen by someone. Just in case, if you fail to find the laptop as soon as possible after missing, you can use this method to delete any important files from the laptop remotely. Mostly we might save our personal photos and other confidential documents in laptop to have access again in future and if those data got leaked by the thief, then it might create you unnecessary problems.

Let's have a look on how to delete all the data remotely from the missing or stolen laptop which is going to save your privacy even after you lose the laptop.


How to Delete Laptop Data Remotely

First of all you have to visit thelaptoplock.com site and sign up there with a valid email ID.
Once you finish the registration process, login to the site and add the laptop details as they require you.

Next note down the computer Id which will display after you add the computer details. After that download the Thelaptoplock software to your laptop.

Now install the software in your laptop and enter computer ID, email address and the password you gave in their official site and click on save button.

Next go to Security tab and from there choose Manage security plans option. Here you will need to add the files and folder's location to be deleted remotely in case your laptop is missing or stolen by someone. Also you can encrypt files and folders as well.

That's it. You're done for the laptop to be remotely wiped. Now whenever your laptop is stolen by someone or the laptop goes missing, simply sign in to the thelaptoplock.com site and mark that your laptop is missing.

Now as soon as possible, the files and folder which you have set to delete from laptop will get wiped and encrypted.

You can download and install the laptoplock software to your laptop by Clicking here. So this is one of the safest and easiest way to protect all your important files and folders in your laptop from third party person in case your laptop goes missing.