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IP address. Sharing with someone else's computer?
Just went on my laptop and a pop-up came on-screen saying 'another computer on this network has the same IP address as this computer. Contact network administrator to resolve issue'.
Have been trying to deal with these computer problems myself, as you have all advised me to do. Learn to use the devices properly, by going online to find out how to. This one has me foxed.
Some advice was to reboot the router and all my devices at the same time? Also that this is usual and will resolve itself once you start using the computer again? So confused as to what to do here...? Are my computer and files at threat? Any advice??
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Network sharing centre. Change sharing options for different network profiles. Network discovery is on. This computer is visible to other network computers? Turn that off? And file and printer sharing and home group connections(recommenced to allow windows to manage this???) Turn these both off too? Password protected is turned on.
Where do I change the password and if I turn any of these off will it affect my other divices or things like Dropbox??
They suggested that Windows should automatically obtain a new IP number from your router once you start the computer again and all will be normal once more. It's not harmful to your computer or network?
The pop-up hasn't come onto my screen anymore and I did reboot it earlier. one red light and two green came onto my router, instead of all green so I turned the router off via the button for half an hour then switched it back on. All green now and working properly. Do I need to know about DHCP? (????????)
Hope all is well this morning.
Are you sure that message isn't because you turned so many things off?
Wondering if I turn off network discovery, file and printer and home group connection would this be enough to prevent anyone accessing my computer? So I won't need to change the password(should have been simple to change, typing in new passsord and clicking on apply, but no. Nothing doing???!