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Franco Borgo

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Message 40790 - Posted: 23 Oct 2011, 5:13:23 UTC

I use my account on a windows 7 / 64bits computer for a while. Now I want to transfer it to my nephew. Every times I start Boinc manager. My account show up. I un-installed Boinc by following this procedure.
[url]http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?language=1&view=490 [/url]
(but At the end, running the scripts do not seem to help)

when I reinstall, I login with the BAM account of my nephew but my account is still there and new job are being downloaded.

How can I remove everything from that computer, before re-installing .

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Message 40801 - Posted: 23 Oct 2011, 23:48:34 UTC - in response to Message 40799.  

He did, he said so, second line of his post. There's just a space at the end, so the URL isn't made. ;)

@Franco,
What you need to do to get rid of things about your account showing in BOINC Manager, is to delete the BOINC Data directory. That's where BOINC Manager reads the information from that it shows in the Projects and Statistics tabs.

There's no need to run the script to get rid of the BOINC Limited User Accounts, as these don't do anything towards your BOINC project account(s). The information in the registry is merely info for BOINC about the place of the programs and data directory, not about your project accounts.
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Message 40833 - Posted: 25 Oct 2011, 16:55:25 UTC - in response to Message 40801.  

by following the "procedure", I though I had remove all data directories, but it is obvious now that I did not :-)

I think i might have installed it as a service. Is there another place I should look for data directories.

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Message 40834 - Posted: 25 Oct 2011, 17:04:06 UTC - in response to Message 40833.  

The default directory where BOINC will install its executables to is:
Windows 32bit: C:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC\
Windows 64bit: C:\PROGRAM FILES (x86)\BOINC\

The default directory where BOINC will install the data files to is:
Windows 98/SE/ME: C:\Windows\All Users\BOINC\ or C:\Windows\Profiles\All Users\BOINC\ (*)
Windows 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\ (*)
Windows Vista/Windows 7: C:\ProgramData\BOINC\ (*)

(*) This directory may well be hidden, so either put the path to it directly into Windows Explorer, or instruct Windows Explorer to show hidden files and folders.
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Message 40857 - Posted: 27 Oct 2011, 20:45:58 UTC - in response to Message 40834.  

I did everything once again but this time, after restart and install, I choose Add project instead of Account manager. I add a project with my nephew account, and it work,

Then, as soon as I add his account manager, the other project came back with my account
so I removed them, remove the account manager and add all the projects manually with his account,

I will wait a few day then I will add again the account manager.

Thank you

info:
It is windows 7 - 64 bits
I have the option set to see hidden folder
After the Add/Remove program control panel job was done, I found files in 2 location
C:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC\
C:\ProgramData\BOINC\

When I re-install the boinc 64 bit, it did say that executable will be put in
C:\PROGRAM FILES\BOINC\
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