Hi all. A few days ago, I downloaded BOINC and signed up to several projects. Unfortunately BOINC and its projects are almost extraordinarily mysterious. Not only is nothing laid out for a layperson such as myself to understand, meaning that I won't sign up for many projects because they simply do not seem to offer any reason to exist, I also can't control what my computer is working on. I don't even know if most of my spare computing power is being used.

I'm using an i5 6600K overclocked to 4.5GHz, with 16GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 and an MSI Armor GTX 1070 (not overclocked), on Windows 10 Home (upgrade from Windows 7). When I first ran BOINC it worked on 2-4 SETI tasks alongside 2 Rosetta tasks for a total of 6 tasks at once. That gradually changed to 5 Rosetta tasks. Now it won't work on more than four at once and it is exclusively working on Rosetta projects. There are YOYO and Citizen Grid projects, among others, that it is simply ignoring.

I understand that Rosetta is incredibly important (in a way that isn't very clear), but should it be hogging all the work? Why is my computer working on fewer tasks at once? If I suspend a Rosetta task it simply starts a new Rosetta task. The deadlines for all my YOYO and Citizen Grid tasks are looming and nothing's being done.

Thanks for reading all this.

EDIT for more info:

* Using Boinc 7.8.2 (x64)
* Deleted my recent BOINC activity log as it was a series of failed uploads of finished tasks due to my internet not working (now fixed)

Thank you, I appreciate your helpful reply :)