hi -dc

Press the start button Find the world community grid in all programs. follow the arrow and you will see the World Communiy Grid Agent Program. Right click and select copy

Then find the startup program group (Start Button All Programs, again) (Sorry I've been around since Windows 3.1 and before) and follow the arrow hover over any programs you have in there right click and select paste.

Next time you reboot the Agent will automatically start.

Any problems post back

Regards

Sam

Thanks. It's crusin on auto pilot again. It’s been so long since I had a program start via the startup folder that I didn’t even think about that option.


- dc

To stop the grid agent for a short time, right-click the icon and click on snooze. To always keep it out of your way, double-click the icon to bring it up onto the desktop, then choose Preferences and check 'Run as Screensaver only'. In this case, you have to select the WCG screensaver in Start - Control Panel - Display. Other screensavers will not work.

But it sounds as though you want to right-click the icon and choose 'Exit'. This will stop the program. To start it again, either reboot or manually start it by copying the shortcut to UD.exe (as explained in earlier posts) and pasting the shortcut on your desktop. Then you can double-click the shortcut to restart the program.

Are you sure that there is any reason to do this? The low priority it runs at ensures that it is swapped out to virtual memory if a memory-intensive program is run.

mycrofth

another method to get the WCG agent to start when windows does is this. click on the start menu and select run. type in msconfig. A dialogue box should appear, one of the tabs at the top of this box should say "startup." Select this tab, in the box now is a list of all the programs that have ever been available to load when windows does. Find the entry listerd as "World Community Grid Agent" and select the check box next to it.
This utility is also very useful for making windows boot faster. As a rule of thumb on everything except Toshiba laptops, I find the files that are needed for WCG, my antivirus/anti-spyware programs (this can be done by looking under the "Command" column of the same screen and seeing where the programs are located on the computer ex. c:\program files\common files\symantec shared\ccApp.exe is an file used for Norton Security products....notice the parent folder name "symantec") After you have found what you beleive to be all the appropriate files uncheck everything else... this will help windows start faster and will also allow WCG almost unlimited access to the CPU while your computer is idling. As I said before, toshiba laptops are a different case, toshiba overlaps most of windows power management programs with ones of their own creation, if you turn these off..... well lets just say don't try it. In this case, you can follow the instructions above except that any file located in a "toshiba" directory, you will want to keep checked. thats it , click apply on the bottom of the dialogue box and restart the computer when asked. If you get any errors when returning to windows that were'nt there before you've removed something you shouldn't have, go back into Msconfig and find the culprit( it will normally list the guilty program in the error message)

hope this helps .