Keep an eye on your Windows Phone device

It certainly is annoying when you don't know where you have put your mobile phone and, while they increase the terrible feeling that you have lost it , you squeeze your neurons to try to remember when was the last time you used it and where.

There is always hope, as long as you have Internet access

So, the first thing you do is pick up the landline phone and make a call to yourself to hallucinate that the sound is coming from under the sofa, inside a jacket or inside a bag; In short, the most unexpected place.

But sometimes, the phone has run out of battery and does not ring. Or, simply, you have left it somewhere abroad and you do not remember where it could have been. In which case the problem escalates in importance and the need for the blockade becomes present.

For all this, Microsoft offers all Windows Phone devices a very useful Web page to take all the actions that allow you to locate, recover and/or block the mobile.

Simple but forceful actions

The commands that you can send to your mobile from the “Find my phone” Web page are:Locate your phone By Through GPS and GSM triangulation, it locates you, on a map, where it is at that very moment or, if you have it configured, where it has been periodically reporting its position and, finally, the last place where it was located before running out of power drums. Make the phone ring This, which is the first thing we all do, becomes frustrating when we remember that we have lowered or removed the ringtone volume call. On the other hand, with this option, it sounds even if it is in silent mode. For me, for this alone, I already deserve the registration in the service, which is totally free.Lock the phone and display a message Not having to run to the operator to have the terminal locked is already an advantage, but I can configure, from this website, a message to be displayed on the lock screen. For example, another phone number, an email or a Twitter profile; where whoever found the phone can let me know – yes, many of us do these things – that they have it in their possession and how to get it back.Erase your phone Finally, if things look rough and the information you have inside is critical, or you have lost all hope of recovering your phone, you can remotely erase all device data.And avoid, at least, that they make a mess like the one I suffered a few years ago with a SIM thrown away by mistake.

This is certainly a website that is essential for Windows Phone users.

More information | Windows Phone Web. Find your phone