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JohnV

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Message 18902 - Posted: 29 Jul 2008, 1:36:14 UTC

Running XP Pro with all updates, and BOINC Manager 5.10.45. Have always had BOINC as a startup program with screensaver, etc. After an extensive system upgrade (same OS on new hard drive, etc.), I have to manually run BOINC to get it going.

To correct this, do I need to uninstall and reinstall the current version? Any special steps along the way?

Thanks,

John
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Steven Nicholas

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Message 19066 - Posted: 2 Aug 2008, 8:03:36 UTC - in response to Message 18902.  

I've got the same version of BOINC running on XP, which i just upgraded to SP3.
So far, i haven't had the problem you are experiencing, though i don't have it set as a screen saver, just the manager in the Startup folder.
Also, i installed the OS from scratch, then installed BIONC. It may be worth it to just uninstall and reinstall BOINC.

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Steven
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Les Bayliss
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Message 19067 - Posted: 2 Aug 2008, 8:16:29 UTC

Or you could simply put a shortcut to boincmgr in the Windows startup folder.

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