Without something like UDMonitor to manage multiple workunits, the UD process is a serial process, and subject to every outage, as you found. You have to wait.

If you are not using UDMonitor yet, don't start now. It does take a certain amount of babysitting.

One of these days, POW!, You're going to BOINC. I have a couple of days worth of BOINC jobs waiting out there automatically, so don't really care about small maintenance periods. I did run some UD units last year when a 3 day blizzard hit the BOINC servers.

retsof:


I do run BOINC most of the time. I run the UD Agent whenever I am on the computer. (It just bugs me no end to see ZoneAlarm's red/green lights constantly flickering.) But whenever I am away from the computer and during the night, BOINC is running. So once that new version of ZA for Vista becomes available for XP, I'll switch to BOINC 24/7.

Scribe:


Are you trying to jinx us?

You all only had to deal with him on the forums. I had to deal with him behind the scenes. <rolleyes>

Now, wash your mouth and promise not to mention his name (or any other euphemism) ever again.

Debs, run BOINC, go to task manager and end process Boincmgr.exe (no others). Boinc keep running and gets and returns WU but ZA does not flash.
When you want to look at boinc, run boincmgr.....look and end process again when done....

The problem with service install is you need a PC with password accounts....all my PC are just single users.....

To me, my method gives all the benefits of the service install without drawbacks...all you have to remember is to end Boincmgr vis task manager, not the exit on the menu.....