For some reason, I thought I already made this thread, so forgive me if my memory is just bad. Anyway:

I've noticed that on two of the computers I have that run BOINC, if I disable starting boincmgr at login, tasks do not continue from the previous time the computer was on. I have to manually start boincmgr to get the tasks working again, after which, I can completely exit the manager.

I'm pretty sure that there was a time when BOINC could start the work units and then them all, without having the manager present. Hell, it makes sense that the units would all work, despite exiting the manager later on. What gives?

Both computers are Windows. One is 8, and I Think the other is 7.

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BOINC Manager starts the BOINC client if it isn't running. The BOINC client is the application that runs all the science applications and thus the work.
You can manually start the BOINC client, or set that to do so at Windows login.

You can do so by making a shortcut on the desktop, add into it

"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe" --detach_console

That's including the quotes, as there is a space in the path, the --detach_console attribute is there to auto-close the command line window. You can then add that shortcut into your Startup folder, if necessary, so Windows starts it at login.

The other option is to install BOINC as a service, then it runs whenever the computer starts up and even when no one has logged in yet. Caveat here is that due to Windows running drivers in a different session than the BOINC limited user account does, BOINC won't be able to detect any GPUs if run as a service.

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"C:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe" --detach_console

If I add this to my startup list, I assume it would be completely invisible, yes?

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Well, it will show up in Windows Task Manager.

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Heh, aside from that. Basically, not showing up in the taskbar or systray. I'll assume this to be the case, so thanks!

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