Velocity, could be power savings? does the screen have built in power saving? check power save options in control panel.

Thanks guys will give your suggestions a try.

Having a major security concern at the moment. Have inadvertantly found that I have two printers set up on my machine. One is mine set up as LPT1 default. The other is a printer which I don't have and never have done and is called "Auto HP Deskjet 970CXI on PETER HARRIS" and is set up on a local port called "\\PETERHARRIS\HP970cxi". WTF is this. My name is not Peter Harris and neither do I know anyone by that name. Further, I just sent a print to this printer and it appears to print but obviously not on my printer. Anyone any ideas? Is there somewhere I can find out when this printer was set up on my machine? Has someone got into my machine and has printed stuff off??

HELP

Looking at "My Network Places" I seem to have two full directories of stuff as though someone has just transferred their computer to mine??

Are you on a network?
Is it a work network? If so have a look through your co directory for a peterharris. My guess is that the printer is attached to his PC.

If its a personal PC at home have you had it from new?

Neil

robber - built it myself about a year ago. Always been at home. Had it on a home network with one other machine which is now defunct. I'm wondering if I set something up about file sharing or whatever which has allowed someone in? Really concerned now. I need to sort this out.

Robb, you seem to be on a network without knowing it. Open a DOS window and type

NET VIEW

and then

PING PETERHARRIS

and report back!

Have you bought a router second-hand or something similar?

It says the folders were created on 11 Sept. How can I find where the f***er got in. I obviously have a hole somewhere that needs plugging.

Robb,

Sorry just edited one of the words in your last post - it may have caused offence to others.

REgards

Ian

Kayak

It identifies a machine and gives me a reply with 4 packets sent, received 4 lost 0 round trip average 10ms. What other info do you need?

The IP address please Robb, and any other machines in NET VIEW?

Kayak - for netview it comes up with one machine \\ROBOFFICE1 which is how I set up this machine for my network. PETERHARRIS is identified as 172.16.172.110
No other IP addresses are shown.

IanT - no probs, sorry just initial anger spilling over.

It seems like someone has set up a VPN (virtual private network) with you.

"172.16.172.110 is an IP address reserved for non-routed networks. That means it may be used on any number of private networks and doesn't connect to the internet at large (except, maybe, via application level gateways or NATs). See RFC 1918 Address Allocation for Private Internets."

What is remaining of your network configuration? Do you still have the network card? Do you still have a router or similar? What is connected to what? Was any of it second hand?

Now type IPCONFIG and again note down the IP addresses.

Also type TRACERT PETERHARRIS and copy the results here. You can highlight using the mouse, but don't right click, instead press Return and then paste here as normal.

I set up a basic PCWorld network kit. 5 port switch with cards for the two machines. everything was new. Everything is still connected through this machine but the other machine is off. This m/c was set up as the master connection.

the info from ipconfig

Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.172.114
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.172.1

C:\Documents and Settings\Rob.ROBOFFICE1>TRACERT PETERHARRIS

Tracing route to PETERHARRIS [172.16.172.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 21 ms 23 ms 13 ms PETERHARRIS [172.16.172.110]

Trace complete.

No problem Robb

Thanks

Ian

lol

Well, you omitted to say that you had bought a wireless network. You are networking with someone else in the neighbourhood who has bought similar equipment which is receiving your signals and assuming you are meant to be part of the network. You could print a document to his printer asking him to give you a ring, and after that just disconnect the broadcasting part of the adapter or remove the network card from the computer. If you ever turn it on again, read the section in the manual about security :-)

Kayak

I don't have a wireless network. Its a basic kit from PCWorld with wires to plug in???

Not sure I understand.