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1. Lock up your laptop! This small chain and lock will not deter a professional thief, but it will deter a grab-and-run thief. Get a chain with a lock that is clearly visible. This will deter someone from messing with the lock.

2. If a thief does manage to break your lock off, use a notebook alarm to alert everyone that someone is trying to steal your laptop. This device will sound an alarm whenever someone disconnects the cable.

3. Use tracking software from a private company to track where your laptop is. The service you select can trace your laptop's location on the Internet and summon the local police to recover it. Typical costs are around $30 a month so make sure that your laptop is worth that much to you!

4. Recovery services report recovery rates of 75 percent and higher on tagged items. If a thief steals your laptop and decides it will be too much trouble to try to get away with it, they will usually dump it somewhere.

5. Use encryption software to encrypt your harddrive. That way if someone steals your laptop, they will not be able to access your most important information. This alone might make them give up and dump your laptop somewhere.

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