Sign Out From Gmail When You Forgot To Do It On A Public Computer

Written by Pramodh KP

July 25th, 2009 at 4:14 pm

Posted in Featured,Tools & Tutorials

This is a problem often many people suffer especially in India. In India most of the people go to cyber cafe to use the internet and forget to log out from their accounts. This often leads to hacking of accounts and many other misuses of the account. So, one has to be very very conscious while using a public computer. Here is a way to sign out of your Gmail account even if you had forgotten, from any other computer.

If you were using Gmail on a public computer and forgot to sign out of it, then no need to panic, here is a simple and effective way of logging out of the computer remotely form any other computer. You can also check whether the accoun is still active or it has been logged out. Follow the instructions given below.

  1. After you log into your Gmail account, you can see at the footer about the last login details there click on the “More Details” link.gmail inbox
  2. You will get a pop-up window that contains all your previous account logins. Here it also gives you a choice to sign put of all other sessions, except the one which you are working on.gmail inbox 2
  3. You can also check for your active account logins. These are represented by an * mark on their IP address. However it is blurred in the image above.

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  • http://www.hellboundbloggers.com/about S.Pradeep Kumar

    I’m not a frequent cyber cafe user, but I used to access Gmail in my friends house.. and forgot to Sign Out ! :D

    Really this tip will be helpful !

    Thanks for sharing mate ! ;)

    Cheers !

    HellBound Bloggers

  • http://www.techmonk.com/ admin

    Ya it happens many times…. Thanks for loving it…

  • Richard

    Thank you GMAIL for making it so easy… and thanks to whoever posted the solution.

    Went through some scary moments until I found this page. So easy to check the details of the last log-ins. I was lucky – nothing bad happened.

  • Ratz

    Thanks buddy for sharing the very important and useful tip…today i have made such a mistake..and i was so scared until i go through your post..THANKS A LOT :)

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