Hi markhack,

A point that Sekerob hasn't touched on in his post, is that CEP2 IS an 'Opt-In' project - and thus, the majority of users (i.e., the 'Set and forget' crunchers) won't come across these long checkpointing issues as they simply wouldn't get any WU's for this project.

Hopefully, there are enough "heavy-weight" crunchers out there who are seeking a high badge level, that this project won't last too long and thus the issue will resolve itself.

BTW, a way around this issue (if you know you're going to need to reboot your machine in the next 12 hours), is to run a mix of CEP2 and other projects - that way, the CEP2 WU's can be suspended before they start, allowing other project WU's be crunched (with their much shorter checkpointing times), until your machine is back up and running again for a long period. I had to use this method earlier on this week, as I had some Microsoft updates to install.