My system administrator *cough*father*cough* has uninstalled BOINC because of some issues that have popped up.

1) BOINC needs admin privileges to run, requiring it being installed for all users

2) I set the screensaver to run on my account. It shows up on the admin account instead

3) BOINC can't be quit unless you have administrator privileges

4) BOINC runs in its own account, so I can't see the processes (never mind terminate them) without admin privileges

5) When I log out of my account, BOINC either throws an error (didn't document, very sorry for that!) or asks for admin approval

6) Keep tasks in memory is turned off, however they still stay there

7) There seems to be no way to prevent BOINC from auto-starting (the automatic manager start is turned off, but BOINC still runs)

I won't be able to get it re-installed until this stuff is taken care of.

Running Rosetta@home, should be the latest BOINC version

HP Pavillion (h8-1160t) with Windows 7 Pro SP1, 64 bit
Intel Core i7-2600 CPU 3.4GHz
8 Gigs RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 545

If anything else is needed, let me know and I'll grab the info.

I've never seen it ask for admin priveleges before... But I've never used it with other accounts on the same machine. I would suggest installing it as a service. It should only ask you for admin priveleges the first time it runs, and then it should run fine. Everything else, I have no idea.

Sounds like you installed BOINC as a service, which you indeed cannot quit when you do not have the administrative privileges. That's a Windows thing, not a BOINC thing.

So the only option would be to install as the user install. Third screen into the installer click Advanced, uncheck Service Install, continue installation.

And at best try to do so with the latest BOINC development version as that one doesn't use the BOINC limited user accounts, unless you specifically installed BOINC as a service.

- BOINC 7.4.12 for Windows, 32bit version
- BOINC 7.4.12 for Windows, 64bit version

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All right, thanks for the suggestions, I'll make sure to take a look into it.

Sounds like you installed BOINC as a service, which you indeed cannot quit when you do not have the administrative privileges. That's a Windows thing, not a BOINC thing.

So the only option would be to install as the user install. Third screen into the installer click Advanced, uncheck Service Install, continue installation.

And at best try to do so with the latest BOINC development version as that one doesn't use the BOINC limited user accounts, unless you specifically installed BOINC as a service.

- BOINC 7.4.12 for Windows, 32bit version
- BOINC 7.4.12 for Windows, 64bit version

My account is not an administrator account. Is that alright, or is it an issue?

An Administrator account is still required to install BOINC.

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