Weird. Still like to know what, if any, exceptions there are for boinc.exe and the science applications and the scanning of the BOINC data directory.

Hi Beth Wells,

Welcome to the forum. You're posting all over how bad the new BOINC is without even saying what version(s) exactly and on what platform... is it Linux only? E.g. the screensaver issue [Linux does not have one for BOINC] will not go away when downgrading.

Generally BOINC 6.2.28, the officially endorsed WCG version for Windows and the 6.2.xx for Linux and Mac Os-X work well. For the Mac OS-X SL the newest versions is in fact a requirement. At any rate, W7-32 and W7-64 work very well together with 6.10.43 i.e. the services run, the sciences process have been testing extensively in production since November.

Those who wish to do GPU computing MUST use the latest 6.10, in order to be optimally successful in running on that resource. Pre 6.4 there's no hope.

As for Linux, what the package managers offer works most of the time. Sometimes they forget the bit about the certificate requirement. WCG communicates over port 443 which is the most frequent pitfall, relatively easily fixed by fetching ca-bundle.crt and putting it in the right place.

For the 64 bit Linux users the 32 libs are a must to be able to work with WCG.

This in a nutshell

cheers

PS, one exception is the Domain Controller. If running that, you need an old version as the newer installers can't create the BOINC user accounts.