Hello, my problem is that the BOINC manager fails to remember any settings I put into it starting from the login on startup and language options and continuing into the preferences tabs. BOINC runs smoothly and as it ought to do until I restart my computer. As it ought to with such an exception that something like 20% of the manager's texts are in Finnish and the rest in English. I've tried rebooting the computer n times and I even reinstalled BOINC once but the problem remains.

I'm running this on HP Probook 4720s, Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M350 @ 2.27 GHz, 4 Gb of RAM, 32bit Windows 7 Professional SP1 and this is what the program says when I (manually) start it up:

25.5.2011 22:46:44 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_intelx86
25.5.2011 22:46:44 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Running under account Petri
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 350 @ 2.27GHz [Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 2]
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Processor: 256.00 KB cache
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 nx lm vmx tm2 popcnt pbe
25.5.2011 22:46:44 OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x86 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Memory: 2.98 GB physical, 5.97 GB virtual
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Disk: 232.79 GB total, 176.60 GB free
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Local time is UTC +3 hours
25.5.2011 22:46:44 ATI GPU 0: ATI Radeon HD 4350/4550 (R710) (CAL version 1.4.344, 512MB, 72 GFLOPS peak)
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Poem@Home URL http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/; Computer ID 85915; resource share 10
25.5.2011 22:46:44 EDGeS@Home URL http://home.edges-grid.eu/home/; Computer ID 13187; resource share 5
25.5.2011 22:46:44 World Community Grid URL http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID 1447047; resource share 100
25.5.2011 22:46:44 World Community Grid General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 01-Jan-1970 02:00:01)
25.5.2011 22:46:44 World Community Grid Host location: none
25.5.2011 22:46:44 World Community Grid General prefs: using your defaults
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Reading preferences override file
25.5.2011 22:46:44 Preferences:
25.5.2011 22:46:44 max memory usage when active: 1527.71MB
25.5.2011 22:46:44 max memory usage when idle: 2444.34MB
25.5.2011 22:46:46 max disk usage: 10.00GB
25.5.2011 22:46:46 max CPUs used: 3
25.5.2011 22:46:46 don't use GPU while active
25.5.2011 22:46:46 suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
25.5.2011 22:46:46 (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
25.5.2011 22:46:46 Not using a proxy
25.5.2011 22:46:46 Suspending computation - initial delay
25.5.2011 22:48:45 World Community Grid Restarting task c4cw_target03_136408526_0 using c4cw version 640
25.5.2011 22:48:45 World Community Grid Restarting task E202227_012_C.24.C20H14N2SSi.00352365.0.set1d06_1 using cep2 version 640
25.5.2011 22:48:45 World Community Grid Starting c4cw_target03_136686426_0
25.5.2011 22:48:45 World Community Grid Starting task c4cw_target03_136686426_0 using c4cw version 640

Hello, my problem is that the BOINC manager fails to remember any settings I put into it starting from the login on startup and language options and continuing into the preferences tabs.

Is the account running it the account that installed BOINC?
-->If not, is the account you're running BOINC with allowed to control BOINC through BOINC Manager?

Since you are Finnish, what language does your BOINC Manager use by default? English, or Finnish? If you see half English, half Finnish, it sounds more like there's no full Finnish translation in the .po/.mo files. Since these translations are done by volunteers, it's possible one started but never finished it.

The latest fi.po shows at least to be 9 months old.

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It's running on the same account that was used to install it.

The default language is Finnish, but the program manager remains bilingual even if I try to set it to English. Also, last December there was an existing completely Finnish translation.

The default language is Finnish, but the program manager remains bilingual even if I try to set it to English.

You will have to fully exit and restart BOINC to have changes made to the GUI take effect.

Exit BOINC:
BOINC Manager->File->Exit->Check "Stop running science applications on Manager exit"->OK.
& restart it:
Start->(All) Programs->BOINC->BOINC Manager.

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Yes, the program notified me of that. I did that several times yesterday as well as restarted the whole computer several times. Once I even uninstalled and reinstalled the whole program.

Anyhow, my F-Secure just told me it had found and isolated some file ( a trojan if I understood it correctly) located in the BOINC folder. I once again set the options and restarted the program and now it seems that the problem is gone. I suppose there wasn't anything wrong with BOINC after all but the problem was caused by this trojan.

Thanks for your time, guidance and concern.