Hello SekeRob ,

first of all thank you for your answer and - above all - thank you for your work as
a community advisor. It is helpful and I really appreciate it. I am sure, the other crunchers and contributors to the forum do so, too.

Thank you once again, keep going.

I understand, that a popup window is not possible.

The basic problem I am writing and thinking about, is the fact, that many users might have their work suspended because of the processor usage preferences (crunch only if processor usage is below 25 per cent) even if they are not sensitive gamers or streaming video watchers. So Worldcommunitygrid is probably loosing chrunching power due to these a u t o m a t i c (!!!!!) settings, loosing cruching power u n n e c e s s a r i l y.

The popup window is only one possible solution to this problem.

I chose it thinking that it is relatively simple to implement and there is not much programming work neccessary to implement such a popup window.

If this is not posible, here is a different solution to the problem:

Ask the user during the BOINCs setup, how the processor usage settings on his computer should be set, instead of setting them automatically. Let him activly decide, how BOINC should be configured.

Do you know, whether the prefereces were set to "use processor only if usage is below 25 per cent right at the start of BOINC or has this been introduced with al later
BOINC version?

Thanks again for your answer.
Martin