Hello vep,
My BOINC Manager opens in the state I put it into before closing it. I keep BOINC Manager in the Advanced View on the Projects tab. That way, whem it opens, I immediately see what I have running and what is waiting to run. I only switch to the Messages tab if I want to check when something ran, then I switch back to Projects.

Lawrence

Goes without saying that Lawrence meant the Tasks tab (should i place the tongue or the wink smilie here ).

The messages are stored away to the stdoutdae.txt file which by default is limited to 2mb in size at which time a backup is made to the stdoutdae.old file and a new log file is created. Each restart a clean message tab screen is created, but the previous/old messages are still in the log file. On diagnosing a problem it is a very useful reference for the support people, so we prefer for it to be left alone.