Lost My Tablet. Please Help Me With Any Security I Can Apply To My Home Laptop -Urgent Please!

[moggie 939]

Hello all experts. I am elderly and know quite a lot about computers but not this!
I had a Windows 10 Tablet which I ran on desktop (not apps) only and was about to return it to factory settings and bash it up when it inadvertently got put out with the general household rubbish and is probably now gone. If anyone does find it they could get into it as there is no password (don't say it I know!)
There is no banking or anything financial but as I used it in a desktop mode there are icons on the desktop for various things like ebay. gmail. avast etc and favourites which have about 30 sites listed and also 'my docs with files and photos. I have exactly the same on my home laptop.
What I do not understand is - if someone gets it and opens it on their broadband or a dongle will they see everything I have on there or will they have to have my broadband password?
What I have done so far is this: I use google (plus Gmail)for everything and I have changed my password on this immediately. Also I have gone thru all my favourites on my home laptop and changed all the passwords on them just now.
So - in the unlikely event of anyone getting it from the landfill site (we do not separate out rubbish where I live) what could they view?
Anything further I can do? Help all you experts!
Thanks everyone

[bhg481]

If someone gets hold of your tablet they will be able to see any data that you keep on it. That is ONLY data which is on the tablet itself NOT anything outside it.
If you have changed the passwords to ALL places on the internet which you have accessed using the tablet, that data will be safe as they will have no password to access it.

[moggie 939]

Thanks for that bhg481. So you mean anything I have on my separate laptop which I am using now will not be affected - just those physically on the Tablet?
What about my docs on tablet?

[Old_Geezer]

They are probably readable but hopefully not private, and you have backups ?

[moggie 939]

Hello Old_Geezer
I do have backups of My Docs as they are the same as on this laptop!
Nothing really private as such except for hols and photos of grandchildren.
I am hoping that the Tablet just gets crushed.

[mazie]

Make sure Every password has been changed moggie. Good luck. Hope it's not found x

[twix123]

If your tablet was set up to connect directly to your modem via wi-fi when switched on, I would suggest that you change the access password on your modem, to ensure that if someone does recover your tablet they cannot sit outside your house and utilise your broadband connections, especially if any of your documents contain your address.

[moggie 939]

Good point twixt123
I will do that today

[tamborine]

Shout out on ur local Streetlife (with reward) for return. Councils monitor the website & might order a search.

[237SJ]

^ Streetlife no longer exists.

[tamborine]

Ooops I seem to have 'Muddyboots' for my council shout.

[moggie 939]

Tamborine
Good idea -will ask council