Not sure why this happens to me, but I just converted a Linux system to win7 then that free upgrade to win10 and immediately ran into my unusual GPU problem that seems no one but I have experienced.

1. Have 2 physical RX-560 but 4 show up in event log. I did a complete uninstall of AMD software, rebooted and back to two RX-560, system seems running fine: CPU tasks run OK and the two SETI tasks on the RX560s run ok.

I wanted to reboot to make some changes and did not want BOINC to start so I brought up the task manager startup page to disable boinc.

There were 3 listing for boinc. I brought up regedit, did not see a problem so I then searched the registery for "boinc.exe" but found nothing except the one in RUN that is supposed to be there. I have that in all my windows systems.

"C:\ProgramFiles\Boinc\boinc.exe" --detach --allow_remote_gui_rpc

I have no idea why there are 3 entries in the startup. There is only one executable running.



I have rebooted since but still have those entries in the task manager startup. I even looked in that old "start menu" folder that older windows used but didn't see anything. I have no clue how this happened. Systems seems running OK.

[EDIT] Looked thru the event logs but saw nothing related to boinc except the successful install.

You're over-engineering things. BOINC has it's own control in the Options menu in BOINC Manager:

Other options --> Run Manager at login?

Uncheck that - job done.

Task Manager shouldn't be used or necessary unless things have got seriously screwed up. Some of those entries will be for supporting tools most people have never heard of, like boinctray.exe

You're over-engineering things. BOINC has it's own control in the Options menu in BOINC Manager:

Other options --> Run Manager at login?

Uncheck that - job done.

Task Manager shouldn't be used or necessary unless things have got seriously screwed up. Some of those entries will be for supporting tools most people have never heard of, like boinctray.exe

Using BoincTasks as I have several systems. I do cut back # of systems during the summer months however.

This problem seems to have fixed itself. Since this was a new windows 10 system (I could not get AMD RX drivers to work with ubuntu 18 or 19) then, after a few hours, the first of several huge updates to windows came in and after the first reboot all those extra "start ups" disappeared. This was a dual xeon and in my first attempt to do that "free" upgrade to win10 I forgot that win10-Home does not handle more than one physical CPU so I had to repeat the upgrade to the "pro" version. This might have messed things up but I tried rebooting several times and those extra boinc "start ups" stayed in the task manager until that (maybe) "October" update got finally installed.

That free upgrade from 7 to 10 still works (thanks micro$oft!) but it creates the original windows 10 from a few years ago and there have been major updates.

I have pointed several people to your duplicate GPU thread fix here. So you're not the only one to have that issue.