users connected to your PC
Monday, August 20, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Posted by Allan
(1 messages posted)
Hi. I have an annoying problem with my work PC. When i start up, the PC runs fairly
fast and good. I then notice that it slows down. I discovered that this will always
happen when i get a "user" on my machine. I go to shutdown and i get a message "There
are 1 user(s) connected to your computer. Shutting down your computer will disconnect
them. Do you want to continue".
What i want to know is...is there a way to tell who or what that user (or sometimes
up to 3 users) is? I don't have my PC set up as shared on the network. I do have
a printer connected to my PC that others on the network use. I tried disconnecting
the USB cable to the printer but my PC still had a user connected (ie, trying to
find who or what the user is).
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re: users connected to your PC
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 7:08 am
Posted by C K
(6028 messages posted)
Shared peripherals need other users to essentially "log in" to your machine. They
stay there until the session is closed or the user logs off/shuts down their machine
or the session times out. Other possibility is your machine is infected with malware
that is sharing your computer with unauthorized users over the internet/LAN. A serious
malware/antivirus scan may be in order with utilities looking for anything suspicious.
On Monday, August 20, 2007 at 6:15 pm, Allan wrote:
>Hi. I have an annoying problem with my work PC. When i start up, the PC runs fairly
>fast and good. I then notice that it slows down. I discovered that this will always
>happen when i get a "user" on my machine. I go to shutdown and i get a message "There
>are 1 user(s) connected to your computer. Shutting down your computer will disconnect
>them. Do you want to continue".
>
>What i want to know is...is there a way to tell who or what that user (or sometimes
>up to 3 users) is? I don't have my PC set up as shared on the network. I do have
>a printer connected to my PC that others on the network use. I tried disconnecting
>the USB cable to the printer but my PC still had a user connected (ie, trying to
>find who or what the user is).
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