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Sekerob
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reference lawrencehardin earlier quote in this thread of ROM, here a further notation in the BOINC development check-in file:
----------------------------------------Rom 4 Apr 2007 - WIN: Introduce assembly manifests for all binaries produced for Windows. - WIN: Code sign each of the binaries produced for Windows. NOTE: Windows Vista has so many levels of protection that it makes it hard to debug specific issues without triping up on one of them. Until we can perform our Vista work items we'll work around the issue by informing Vista that we need admin rights via the assembly manifest before Vista launches us. It's taken care of in a future version of BOINC, but identifies the main issue....permissions. Don't go opening the floodgates by compromising securities of the program files directory structure!
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Former Member
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The 'mislead' is from the sample screenshot that appears just before the download pop-up shows..... manuals are always behind  aaHA! so you're lying to us...  ....i knew it!  i checked before i posted exactly what version the wcg site would download since i'd heard it was sometimes different from what the latest was on the boinc site. i didn't know if it made a difference or not. and as for you mr. hardin, i think we need to work on getting you a copy of vista ultimate so you can become our resident tester.  would that be something up your alley?i just looked and i have "user account control" turned off. anyone with rebooting problems willing to try that? this thing's been running a month with numerous reboots and no problems. |
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retsof
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something like free.grisoft.com works fine. Yes, it does. You can also download daily updates, so there is no excuse for something too old.
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PS also read on BOINC dev, that the speed of Vista shutdown can effect whether data was saved completely and avoid corruption. The recommendation is, to be on the save side, to first close BOINC, before closing Vista. Are there any other workarounds other than manually closing BOINC first? I often forget, or click "Next" too many times during an install and reboot, or have Windows Updates which automatically reboot. |
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Sekerob
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From the WXP early days i remember to have tweaked the OS not to wait too long on unwilling processes.... that running bar.... I'm sure there is a tweak (to be created) to prolong it in Vista
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Sekerob
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aaHA! so you're lying to us... ....i knew it! Vavega, it's not politically correct to use the L word...... like in parliament the proper description is...... "your words are on strained footing with the truth sir/madam" OFL
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Sekerob
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Cant' find the post momentarily where a delay was discussed of the Vista shutdown to allow BOINC sufficient time to write even the biggest files from RAM, but Jord heard and gave the setting to be changed in the registry:
----------------------------------------Message 9287 - Posted 1 Apr 2007 16:16:39 UTC ....... Copy the following [Sekerob: bolded]text and paste it into the Notepad window, called WaitToKill.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControl] "WaitToKillServiceTimeout"="20000" The 20000 is 20 seconds. Increase/decrease to your liking. To add this to the registry double-click the file. The UAC will come up, press continue, press Yes on the next window and OK on the one there-after. You need to reboot to make the changes have effect. Added comment from subsequent poster: Tried this using 40000 (40 sec) and after a few reboots, it seems to be working!
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