Hi All,

I waited last night until the deferred time had rolled down to 0 (a full 24 hours!), and the scheduler kicked off by itself. The status message was:
"Status: Scheduler request pending, Requested by user, Scheduler request in progress"

Notice the "Requested by user" ... I had NOT clicked on "Update"

There are 4 tasks sitting in "Ready to report" and no other tasks.

My Messages (as at when the scheduler kicked off) were:
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Starting BOINC client version 5.10.45 for windows_intelx86
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2500 @ 2.00GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8]
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Professional Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.00.6001.00)
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Memory: 2.50 GB physical, 5.21 GB virtual
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Disk: 68.53 GB total, 14.67 GB free
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Local time is UTC +2 hours
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 605063; location: (none); project prefs: default
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 01-Jan-1970 02:00:01)
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Host location: none
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||General prefs: using your defaults
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1279.33MB
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1918.99MB
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
2008/07/30 10:18:54 PM|World Community Grid|Fetching scheduler list

No other messages followed 10:18:54 PM one, I left it until this morning 06:10 AM and then packed up & came to work (this is my laptop).

At work I logged on, and sweet as you please, it connected, reported & downloaded new tasks.

Go figure!

Thanks for all the input.
Peter