It would be nice if we could somehow tell BOINC to pause when particular programs are running.

Something like a 15 second loop that looks at the windows process list?
Maybe some settings in the global prefs file:

<ThrottleBOINCforProcesses>
  <Process>
    <Name>photoshop.exe</name>
    <ThrottlePercent>100</ThrottlePercent>
    <AllowCommnunications>0</AllowCommunications>
  </Process>
  <Process>
    <Name>someotherprogram.exe</name>
    <ThrottlePercent>75</ThrottlePercent>
    <AllowCommnunications>1</AllowCommunications>
  </Process>
</ThrottleBOINCforProcess>

Honestly this would fix the biggest problem i have convincing people to let me put BOINC on their machine. They dont want to have to turn it off to run program X, or they wont remember to turn it back on.

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It's a good idea, but I don't see that it could be written into boinc as a default throttle or shut-down because there are so many different programs that can potentially crash workunits, eg scans by every AV that exists, every existing and future graphics-intensive game, specialist graphics programs used by architects etc. So it wouldn't be possible to include every potential danger.

As an add-on for people who want it, good idea. I just wonder how many newbies would want the hassle of setting this up or know which programs pose a risk.

I believe that the new boinc manager GUI being planned will include a throttle option, but you'd still need to remember to use it.

I'm one of the lucky people whose boinc icon in the system-tray includes the option to suspend and restart the workunit. It would go some way towards solving the problem if the icon changed its appearance when the WU is suspended, as my firewall icon does when the firewall is disabled.

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My intention was not to include a setting for every program out there. It was to create a way for end users to configure BOINC for their environment. If they wanted it to throttle (or even a simple "snooze") they could add something like the settings i listed. The ability to snooze BOINC already exists. I'm just suggesting it gets triggered automatically.

I'm looking for configurability (sp) not a database of what programs kill BOINC.

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