1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Error 1706. No valid source could be found for product BOINC. (Message 62425) Posted 2 Jun 2015 by Vas Post: I don't use the Windows cleanup tool. I use System Mechanic to maintain my system better than Windows can do. It lets me clear all junk files when I want, including things left behind by previous installers.

2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Error 1706. No valid source could be found for product BOINC. (Message 62366) Posted 29 May 2015 by Vas Post: I have a hunch on how it happens then, I clean up my system every so often, removing junk files from installers that can't figure out how to clean up after themselves. So, these files get removed often, and this may also be the case with many other machines, even those with automated tools that clean up for users who don't know what's being cleaned up. That said, perhaps you should change the installer, make it a custom installer and not use Windows Installer tools to rely on. Then you can extract an uninstall.exe file into the directory of boinc so that each future version can always find the uninstaller no matter what.

3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Error 1706. No valid source could be found for product BOINC. (Message 62363) Posted 28 May 2015 by Vas Post: I get "Error 1706.No valid source could be found for product BOINC. The Windows Installer cannot continue." every time I try to update boinc. This needs to change, I finally managed to fix it but I shouldn't have to every single time I want to update. Learn how to make an installer that doesn't get corrupted after a while. Seriously, this is annoying. I almost don't want to use BOINC anymore because of updating always causes me to have to google for steps on how to fix and then go download an old version, click repair, then update.

4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Tasks menu in BOINC Manager (Message 60316) Posted 15 Feb 2015 by Vas Post: Seems I am. However I can't do work for a while as my CPU fan died. :P Boinc can't do the things I want it to. :/ http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=9976

5) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Feature Requests & Need Info (Message 60314) Posted 15 Feb 2015 by Vas Post: I didn't like the switch every nn minutes though. That's why I suggested this. Also, my CPU fan died, so Boinc was causing my laptop to hit nearly 210F for 15 minutes straight, I got home and moved the mouse to stop it before I noticed my CPU fan had died. This is another good reason Bionc should pay attention to the CPU temperature and the temperature of the machine.

6) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Feature Requests & Need Info (Message 60174) Posted 8 Feb 2015 by Vas Post: First, I'll ask my question. I recently overclocked my laptop's GPU 17.5%, and stress tested to find out if it's stable. It has virtually no heat increase or anything so I'd like to keep it like this. Is this likely to cause my calculations in any project to be more likely incorrect? I don't want to upload a bunch of invalid work after all. And now for the feature requests. I haven't found any options in the UI for what I need & want, so I'll go ahead and suggest them. If there are advanced options that I don't know about, it would be nice to add them to the UI somewhere. 1. I would like Boinc to monitor the temp of my hardware and reduce work on any core that is going above a certain heat threshold that I specify. And by reduce, I mean limit that item by 30% for 5 minutes, and if it goes over 10 times in a row, it should set that thread/core to 70% work in the settings and put an icon or some sort of notice for the user so the user can check and see why that core was limited. If it goes above that heat threshold again when already limited, should further limit it another 30%, and if again, stop work on that core. These would be options of course to enable or disable so people wouldn't be forced to use the option. I recently overclocked my GPU, and while I haven't seen any real increase in heat, I just wanted to be on the safe side. 2. I would like to be able to assign an amount of threads / cores / GPUs per project. So I can put 3 threads on Seti, 3 threads on LHC, and 2 threads on Asteroids, and then set my GPU to alternate between each thing. (If it finishes one project on Seti, it should find one for LHC, then Asteroids, and loop back.) I just don't like the current method the system uses for switching projects. I don't want it changing projects every 30 minutes to an hour, I want it to finish one thing, then move on to the next in line or I'd like it to work on multiple things at a time. 3. I would like the ability to tell boinc to force start a project in the list. Even if it is set to run as preferences or suspended, I'd like to right click a task in my list, like say one is 98% done and I just want to finish it, I would like being able to right click it and click "force start" to make my system start working on that one or any others that are also forcefully started. Should add an icon to it that shows "force started" so a user knows he forced one to start and would need to right click it again to stop it if he wants. At one point, I actually had one project stuck going even though I suspended boinc, luckily it was barely using 60% of two of my eight threads so it didn't really disrupt anything. :P 4. I set my boinc to keep a certain amount of work available to me at all times. 2 days of total work. So I woke up one day, and saw two days of Seti@Home, but nothing for LHC or Asteroids. I want the ability to set it to give me at least 20 of each project or even let it split up the time frame of the projects so it will give me 16 hours of Seti, 16 hours of LHC, 16 hours of Asteroids.

7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Tasks menu in BOINC Manager (Message 60172) Posted 8 Feb 2015 by Vas Post: Each task you fail to return correctly diminishes your allowed cache at that project with one task, all the way until your BOINC can only get 1 task per hardware instance per 24 hours. Are you saying that if my CPU / GPU miscalculates something and uploads it, that I'm punished for sending invalid work in? Nor am I notified that my calculates are incorrect more often after a possible recent change to my system?

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