Windows 10: lost my laptop, find location and result like this

I lost my laptop on february 10th. The last time i used it was february 8th with the location as in photo 2. Today i checked on https://account.microsoft.com/devices/find-my-device, the result is like this. So is my laptop still unused by someone and connected to wifi or someone turned off location or someone logged out of my microsoft account or something else? Thanks for the replies.

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Locate a lost Windows 10 laptop

A mate of mine has lost a laptop on a bus and wishes to find it. As far as I know, Windows 10 offers GPS tracking features, but that has to be turned on before the device was lost. The laptop was an Acer and it had no accessories installed that could be identified for location (e.g. no sim or usb net). It had Windows defender on it and the user always had to log in by using username and password to accounts like Facebook (so no auto login with kept pw). As far as we know, the anti-theft feature of Win10 was not turned on (to be frank it was on default, it was not tempered with).

The laptop did have a password on it so my best bet is that it will be booted from a pendrive in order the "founder" to use.

My questions for this are the following:

• Is it possible to turn on GPS remotely by using the same account on another device (like turn on on all devices)?
  
• If the OS is reinstalled it is lost for ever?
  
• Is it possible to contact the vendor to try to identify the device by location?
  

EDIT

When attempting to log in, the owner was prompted "too many unsuccessful attempts to log in" which means the thieves tried to log in. Does win10 have a feature that enables geolocation in this case?

ANOTHER EDIT

Is it viable to let the thieves have the laptop in order to trigger the geolocation? no bank data/facebook/gmail etc is logged in on the laptop.

YET ANOTHER EDIT

She actually can log in into her MS account after confirming it with a separate email address. Note that it was the account only, not remoting to the machine. Like one logs in from another pc to check on the mails. In fact she could change her password to her account.
By the morning she used the machine and it did display her location (it's evening here at the moment). What we came up with - as there are no bank data or social media accounts logged in on the laptop - we should let the thieves log in in order for the laptop to show its location.
To do this, we plan to use that Win 10 synchronizes one's profile settings on all machines - like if I change my wallpaper on this machine, it changes on the other one. Does it mean if I remove the need to password to login on this machine, it will remove the need on the stolen one? So that the thieves could log in and the laptop's location shows up?

 

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Hi Wendy,

There is a possibility that the photos were moved to a different location or folder. This usually occurs if there has been a recent change made or updates installed on your PC. To help us provide a solution, please answer the following:

• Have you recently updated your PC or changed any settings? If yes, please follow the steps in this support page article for the suggested solutions:
  Find lost files after the update to Windows 10.
  
• What build and version of Windows 10 are you using?

Regardless if you've made any changes or not, we would still encourage you to try the solutions in the article. Once you're done, hit us back and let us know the result.

Kind regards.

 

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