I am wondering how my profile info can be used. It says:

The following information is useful for attaching computers to World Community Grid:
Project URL: www.worldcommunitygrid.org
Account Key: ec99bxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What are the steps to connect to MY GRID? Where can I find the documentation that explains how to attach computers?


Regards,
Mihai.

Hi mihaig,

You should visit the following URL, then you can find the way.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=changereg

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Steps:

1. Open the World Community Grid – BOINC software by double left mouse clicking on the World Community Grid icon in your system tray at the bottom right hand side of your window.
2. Once it is opened, if you see the ‘Simple View’, then click on the text that says ‘Advanced View’.
3. Select the ‘Projects’ tab and select World Community Grid. Then click on the button that says ‘Detach’.
4. Now go to the menu items at the top of your screen and select advanced and select ‘Tools’ and then ‘Attach to project…’. This will open a dialogue box. If 'Attach to project…' is grayed out, see the instructions below.
5. In the dialogue box, click ‘Next’. On the next screen, scroll through the list of BOINC projects and select World Community Grid and then click the ‘Next’ button.
6. On the next screen, enter the member name and password for the user that you want to register this device under.


Congratulations! You are now attached under the new member name.

Enabling 'Attach to project…': If in step 4 the option ‘Attach to project…’ is grayed out and you are unable to select it, then you need to open the file C:\Program Files\BOINC\cc_config.xml using an application such as Notepad. Once you open this file you will see a line that looks like:

<disallow_attach>1</disallow_attach>

change this line so that it looks like:

<disallow_attach>0</disallow_attach>

Now save the file. Go ahead and close the World Community Grid – BOINC software by selecting File -> Exit. You can start it again by going to Start -> Programs -> World Community Grid – BOINC Agent -> World Community Grid – BOINC Manager. You should now be able to complete step 4 above. If you experience any problems please visit our forums or utilize the “contact us” feature at the bottom of most pages of our website.
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Hmm, looks like you didn't download BOINC from the "normal" locations, either here at WCG, https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/ms/viewDownloadAgain.do or the normal BOINC download-page http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php

But anyway, assuming there's not something funny going on with the non-standard BOINC-client you're apparently using, to fix do:
1: In BOINC Manager, Advanced View, select WCG on the Project-tab, and hit "Detach", and answer "Yes".
2: Afterwards, then WCG isn't listed any longer, select to "Attach to project", and then you comes to the list with projects either find WCG among the projects or just paste the url http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ into the field at the botton. After htting "ok" (or something), you'll be asked for Username and so on, make sure you'll select "Existing account" (or something similar) and type-in your Username and Password.


If these steps doesn't work, my suggestion is, verify the location of your BOINC data-directory (one of the first few lines in the message-tab or log). Also verify location of the BOINC-application-files (normally under "c:\program files\boinc" or possibly "c:\program files (x86)\boinc" or possibly "...\world community grid" instead of BOINC). Uninstall your current BOINC-client, goto there BOINC data-directory is located and make sure to delete all files including sub-directories in the BOINC data-directory. You should repeat the same with BOINC-application-files location. Afterwards, download the "normal" BOINC-client from either of the locations listed above, and use this instead.