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So your desktop PC's are connected to WHAT router? Who is your ISP? What is the equipment (brand/model)?
And are your two desktops connected via ethernet cable to the router, or wirelessly?
Not necessarily. But they were obviously present on your network, and thus COULD have had access to the contents of your two desktops.U mean those two PCs copied everything in my PC?
But this would only have been "possibly easy" if you don't use Windows passwords for the "user" on your desktop PC's. You should ALWAYS have a password required at the Windows "Welcome" screen to log in as a user. This is just one more level of protection making it more difficult (if not impossible) for someone to gain unrestricted access to your computer. If they can't get past that "Windows front door password" then they are certainly stymied.
In addition to the Windows password which would be required for any remote PC (wired or wireless) to be able to gain generic access to one of your desktops, you can also further allow or restrict access to the contents of specific drives/folders/files on those machines. So you can construct a combination of security for your "home network" to whatever degree of free-access or restrictions that you desire.
But for absolute sure, you SHOULD be using Windows password to sign on to Windows at the Welcome screen for any user(s) defined on that machine. Then any other machine on the network (authorized or "rogue") couldn't get past that front door without at least providing the proper Windows password to even just connect.
You absolutely should NOT have "none" specified for wireless security.I also don't think that our router is "locked down" or whatever it is called.
As I showed in my latest screenshot, you should specify WPA2-PSK security to gain wireless access through your wireless router, and you then must provide a passphrase (i.e. password). Your own wireless devices or laptop/phone would then require that you enter that password in order to "connect" wirelessly.