How does my laptop windows 10, my PC Windows 7 know my location?

Laptop 2020 windows 10, my festpc windows 7 2012 my location?

The 7 year old desktop devices don't have GPS?

How do I prevent him from knowing it or Microsoft, Chrmoe, etc? I'm assuming that data protection regulations for criminals are for the wolf.

A laptop doesn't have a GPS either. The approximate location (accurate to approx. 100 km) can be found out via the IP address.

As the? Is it assigned by country, district?

Are they fixed at all?

I thought he was free to choose her when I went out on the internet?

If you are connected to the internet, you can limit your location using your IP.

This way you can't be found exactly at first glance, but you can narrow the area down sharply. Anyone who has enough criminal energy and the necessary knowledge also knows how to obtain further data about you and thus find out your exact address.

In short: If you are connected to the Internet, everyone who wants to find you will find you - even without GPS.

You get a free IP address, usually within a certain range (eg 145.210.0.0 to 145.210.255.255. If there's nothing left in the range, also from somewhere else. The ranges are assigned to physical locations, so that several servers have independent IP addresses can assign without first asking any other or a central server which address is still free.

Ok and how do i avoid location determination?

And how do I avoid all of this?

Use vpn / tor

Not at all. You can use a VPN, but then the VPN provider knows where you come from. But that's not exactly so, so it doesn't really matter.

You can use a VPN to hide your location by accessing the Internet through many different servers. The Tor browser allows you to do this e.g. Quite easy.

The problem with this is that your internet speed slows down over every server used to disguise your PC.

There are also programs like CyberGhost, so you can disguise your PC quite easily, but this license costs a little. Then you have a fairly large selection of servers via which your signals are to be sent, in principle you have servers spread over the entire planet whose locations are then used instead of your PC.

Of course, this can also have disadvantages, so you can't use services that are not available in the selected country. On the other hand, you can access content that is not available in Germany (keyword YouTube).

However, any advantage usually has its disadvantage. If you are interested in something like that, you can find out more on the CyberGhost website (for a fee), you can also take a look at the Tor browser (free of charge).

Hi thanks I'll do it.

There's always a pop node (point of presence) for your connection area or a CMTS (head-end station) for cables. Their location is known and based on this your location can be narrowed down about "pi-times-thumb".

Btw: my age-old Toughbook installed a GPS module. I can use the e.g. Find in case of theft.

And for criminal offenses only use perfect privacy and no other spacks save the logs!