I get a permission problem when running BOINC on Windows 7....anyone got BOINC to work on Win7?

is it windows not letting you run boinc.exe???

More so, what exactly is the message? When do you get it?
Is it explicitly when you start up BOINC Manager at boot time, or at all times? Is UAC on?

And is this with a release candidate of Windows 7, or a full version?

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Rather than start a new thread, thought it appropriate to post here. Have had boinc running successfully on Win7 RC since it's release.

however, on several occassions yesterday, kept getting the following & tried boinc repair, no joy, so uninstalled, reinstalled & it looked ok until now..Any ideas please?

Info:-

07/28/09 03:43:06 Starting BOINC client version 6.6.36 for windows_intelx86
07/28/09 03:43:06 log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
07/28/09 03:43:06 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3
07/28/09 03:43:06 Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
07/28/09 03:43:06 Running under account XXXXXXXXX
07/28/09 03:43:06 Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor [x86 Family 16 Model 2 Stepping 2]
07/28/09 03:43:06 Processor features: fpu tsc pae sse sse2 pni 3dnow mmx
07/28/09 03:43:06 OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x86 Edition, (06.01.7100.00)
07/28/09 03:43:06 Memory: 3.50 GB physical, 7.00 GB virtual
07/28/09 03:43:06 Disk: 232.88 GB total, 208.97 GB free
07/28/09 03:43:06 Local time is UTC +1 hours
07/28/09 03:43:06 CUDA device: GeForce 9500 GT (driver version 18618, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 15GFLOPS)
07/28/09 03:43:06 Not using a proxy
07/28/09 03:43:18 Can't rename state file; access denied; check file and directory permissions
07/28/09 03:43:18 Couldn't write state file
07/28/09 03:43:18 Make sure directory permissions are set correctly
07/28/09 03:43:18 AQUA@home URL: http://aqua.dwavesys.com/; Computer ID: 20491; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 FreeHAL@home URL: http://boinc.freehal.org/projects/freehal_at_home/; Computer ID: 11628; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 Einstein@Home URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 1998623; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 QMC@HOME URL: http://qah.uni-muenster.de/; Computer ID: 148147; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 ramsey URL: http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/; Computer ID: 8504; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 General prefs: from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ (last modified 23-May-2009 01:42:59)
07/28/09 03:43:18 Host location: none
07/28/09 03:43:18 General prefs: using your defaults
07/28/09 03:43:18 Preferences limit memory usage when active to 3403.36MB
07/28/09 03:43:18 Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3582.48MB
07/28/09 03:43:18 Preferences limit disk usage to 100.00GB
07/28/09 03:43:56 Can't write state file, exiting in 10 seconds

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Found solution, but have no idea as to what caused the change in settings, as no programs added or changed since Boinc originally installed.

Right-clicked on boinc Manager in Start Menu, selcted properties & checked permissions. Re-applied "Run as administrator" & boinc back to normal.

Only probable answer I can come up with is a "dreaded" Win Update.

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Rather than start a new thread, thought it appropriate to post here. Have had boinc running successfully on Win7 RC since it's release.

however, on several occassions yesterday, kept getting the following & tried boinc repair, no joy, so uninstalled, reinstalled & it looked ok until now..Any ideas please?

Info:-

07/28/09 03:43:06 Starting BOINC client version 6.6.36 for windows_intelx86
07/28/09 03:43:06 log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
07/28/09 03:43:06 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8j zlib/1.2.3
07/28/09 03:43:06 Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
07/28/09 03:43:06 Running under account XXXXXXXXX
07/28/09 03:43:06 Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor [x86 Family 16 Model 2 Stepping 2]
07/28/09 03:43:06 Processor features: fpu tsc pae sse sse2 pni 3dnow mmx
07/28/09 03:43:06 OS: Microsoft Windows 7: x86 Edition, (06.01.7100.00)
07/28/09 03:43:06 Memory: 3.50 GB physical, 7.00 GB virtual
07/28/09 03:43:06 Disk: 232.88 GB total, 208.97 GB free
07/28/09 03:43:06 Local time is UTC +1 hours
07/28/09 03:43:06 CUDA device: GeForce 9500 GT (driver version 18618, compute capability 1.1, 512MB, est. 15GFLOPS)
07/28/09 03:43:06 Not using a proxy
07/28/09 03:43:18 Can't rename state file; access denied; check file and directory permissions
07/28/09 03:43:18 Couldn't write state file
07/28/09 03:43:18 Make sure directory permissions are set correctly
07/28/09 03:43:18 AQUA@home URL: http://aqua.dwavesys.com/; Computer ID: 20491; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 FreeHAL@home URL: http://boinc.freehal.org/projects/freehal_at_home/; Computer ID: 11628; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 Einstein@Home URL: http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/; Computer ID: 1998623; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 QMC@HOME URL: http://qah.uni-muenster.de/; Computer ID: 148147; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 ramsey URL: http://www.ramseyathome.com/ramsey/; Computer ID: 8504; location: home; project prefs: default
07/28/09 03:43:18 General prefs: from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ (last modified 23-May-2009 01:42:59)
07/28/09 03:43:18 Host location: none
07/28/09 03:43:18 General prefs: using your defaults
07/28/09 03:43:18 Preferences limit memory usage when active to 3403.36MB
07/28/09 03:43:18 Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3582.48MB
07/28/09 03:43:18 Preferences limit disk usage to 100.00GB
07/28/09 03:43:56 Can't write state file, exiting in 10 seconds

if you see those lines, it means that the you don't have it set to run as administer and you were on the right track SiriusB.

Thanks ZPM. It was the OP that made me think of permissions. I still haven't found what caused the settings to change as it ran ok from day 1. Got be be MS & their dreaded updates.............can't blame them as it is only an RC :)

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