Prey for Windows

Prey for Windows falls under the category of tracking and its main task is to help you hunt back your laptop or smartphone. Once installed, it runs in the background of the operating system and checks over the internet to see if the device is stolen. This also leads to the main drawback that if the culprit formatted the drive before the system boots up, or doesn't connect to the internet and deactivates the program, you unfortunately have no chance of tracking down your device. But how many people nowadays would think of this when stolen.

Otherwise, though, it can take pictures of the hijacker (assuming a webcam is available, of course), lock the screen, read undefined text, of course, detect location using GPS and Wi-Fi networks, send reports with photos of the thief, and a lot more. Just everything to help you find both the device and the thief.