Hello everyone, hello the creators of BOINC software.

I use BOINC (with WCG) for many years, especially with XP, and I had no problem... Since the latest versions on Win8.1 or Win10, it does not work well, not like before.

By leaving BOINC, he continues his tasks in the background without warning, he consumes resources and so on. In short, I have to "kill" the processes and, when I restart it, there is nothing, except a message telling me that I entered a bad password !

If I turn off the PC and restart it, at the BOINC launch, there is nothing, all my current calculations have disappeared the button "No new tasks" is supported !!

Since I did not notice that right away, it took me some time, some research, and I did not find an answer on the Internet until I found myself :

For the button "No new tasks" just press "Allow new tasks", it works again, easy, simple, but I lost the old tasks in progress (10 tasks at the same time).

For the "Bad password" message, go to File - Stop connected client ... - Click OK in the dialog window - click OK again in the second dialog window. Wait 2 seconds and all the tasks come back and can continue without losing anything !!

This may be because BOINC developers do not want BOINC to stop! It's getting awkward, maybe I'll get out of the math, so much for science, it'll save computer and smartphone batteries.

As a reminder, under XP with a version 5.x there were no such problems...

Could you do something? It would be generous to be able to continue quietly and talk to other people without regret because of the same problems encountered, thank you in advance.

Ah, another small problem: when I have several days of tasks hosted in advance on my PC, it does not calculate in the order of the dates of nearest ends, it calculates randomly ... even if the date is exceeded!

(Sorry I translate with google, it may not be completely understandable…)

By leaving BOINC, he continues his tasks in the background without warning, he consumes resources and so on.

Click on <options> <Other Options> then tick enable exit dialogue. Then when you exit BOINC you will be given the option of stopping the running client. Following that, BOINC will ask you if you want it to remember that decision.