Windows 10 Securing My Laptop: Disabling Remote Access and Creating a Recovery USB

iOftheStorm

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Hi guys.

Unfortunately I have lovely neighbours who keep hacking me and have done on my windows laptop for the last 7 months.

I want to switch off any facilities that allow them to make any changes to the laptop that will cause it to have problems.

So I would like network sharing off. Remote Desktop and remote admin and also any vpn site to site connections because they use them on all devices.

They have set up a Smb file share on my router.

How do I use the internet without them being able to play around and mess up my laptop.

It’s the second time it’s been wiped.

Also does anyone know how I can create a recovery usb and how I use it if I need it.

I have an updated Lenovo yoga 500 that was updated from win 8 to win 10 please help.
 
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Neemobeer said:
In a home environment that is built into your router.
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If I don’t have one according to that reading then I don’t have one. Should I let the ISP know because they are investigating everything at the moment.

When should or when would you turn off dhcp ??

When your using an external router ???

I’m just using the router the ISP supplied
 
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You technically could assign all your addresses manually or if you had a separate dhcp server built. In a home environment in most cases people use the built-in one on the router and it's generally enabled by default
 
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Yeah it is enabled I’ve just checked how come it’s showing I don’t have it enabled there then ?? That’s weird I’m wondering whether this router page has been tampered with is that possible ?? Because it’s showing upnp off on the page but oh the technical logs it’s showing its switched on as well
 
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And the router page is http not https
 
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https is preferred as it would prevent someone from sniffing traffic. This is only in regards to other devices connected to your wireless network.
 
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I’ve used a http sniffer myself and I get redirected through cloudflare Amazon aws baidu google api services and loads of different things and a lot of my certificates are coming back self signed
 
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