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Everyone would agree that prevention is always better than the cure. The same apply when it comes to protecting your laptop computer from being stolen when you’re away. It’s will be too late to locate and recover your laptop once it got stolen. Such attempt has near to zero success rate. Even if you have Locate PC installed on your computer, it still can’t help much especially when you are living in Malaysia.
So as I mentioned above, prevention is very important and there are a score of tips to protect your PC from being stolen. The best way is to lock your PC with a PC Lock. To give your computer more and better protection, you can use Laptop Alarm together with PC Lock.
What’s so cool about Laptop Alarm is that this freeware Windows application will alert you when your computer is touched by someone, leaving no chance for someone to tamper your files. You can set Laptop Alarm to play a loud warning sound when your computer loses AC power, when someone attempts to shut down or log off your computer or when your mouse moves or is unplugged from the USB port. With this freeware around, it will make your laptop computer difficult to steal. 
With such a loud and sudden warning sound, it will definitely scare the thief away. You may think that the sound can be easily muted or lower down. Even if the thief do that, Laptop Alarm will turn the sound back and plays the alarm at full volume! Therefore, it is not possible to mute the sound! You can set an unlock password by clicking the “Options” from the main window display, to unlock your computer or turn off the alarm. To lock your computer, you can click “Lock Computer”. I’ve try Laptop Alarm and the loud alert is really killing me! What’s a pain to my ear.
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Nice application Steve. Not many of us know that.
Still this security can be broken easily. If you press power button for 5sec, your laptop will get shutdown immediately.
But this happens very rare. No thief usually does that. I suppose this application is very useful.
pretty handy .. good for me i don’t take my laptop unless I’m going to the beach [ I'm not swimmer so it doesn't get away from my sight ] other than that i have network magic installed on it and it every time the laptop is opened it sends me an email of the time , which user logged in and what IP
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Rakshit > Let me try and see whether the alarm will be played just before my laptop goes shutdown after pressing the power button. Thanks for the info.
ameo > Is network magic similar to locate pc?
network magic is mostly used in handling the LAN sharing and printers , but it has that feature to send you daily reports of your pc onlinetime
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