Appreciate the Windows GUI wallet arriving. It ran as expected (I can see my addresses ok). I've no coins yet so 0.00000000 is what I expected as my balance too.

However, when starting maxcoin-qt it not only begins to catch up on the block chain (as they all do), but it begins solo mining straight away. Why is this? Is there a setting in the .conf file I need to change?
* I was running the previous release of minerd.exe, for which I copied the example conf file to my appdata folder. Perhaps this conf is set to solo mine?

Clicking on the 'Mining' tab doesn't show any solo mining running (although it does have an entry for solo ming). When I click on the 'start mining' button the window below reflects my action, and clicking on the 'stop mining' button also updates the output/status window, and mining stops (I hear my CPU throttle back from full pelt to a murmur).

I can only guess qt starts solo mining straight away (using minerd.exe) becasue I've a setting in my conf file.

Any help appreciated.