Tell us what you want, snoekie. The various options have been offered:

1. Set an exclusive for the applications so that BOINC is paused when you use the dictate program or anything else that need more juice.

2. Reduce the CPU use. For instance your 2600 will run 8 tasks simultaneous, so if you set "On Multiprocessor system use at most 75% of processors", only 6 jobs will run.

3. Set BOINC to pause when your [non-BOINC] use of the computer exceeds a certain percent. This is done with the "While [non-BOINC] processor usage is less than 50 percent". Any percent can be entered there until you find the one that least interferes with your program.

4. Also the familiar standard [default] pause of BOINC can be set if any mouse/keyboard user input is detected (don't know if voice activation of a dictate program will be detected). Esoteric.

Of course for these options to work you have to set the Activity menu to "Run based on preferences". All preferences are described in this manual http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Preferences (Berkeley seems to be off line presently).

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edi2: To add as something important to consider. If running any scheduled interruption due user input, set the "Leave Application in Memory wehn suspended", else the tasks will unload and resume from last checkpoint. This could lead to a day of crunching without little progress if you're busy.

Resolved the problem, but it essentially the same as the start of this thread, instructions are ignored.

Sorry Sekerob, I hadn't seen your last posting before I did my posting.

However your posting allowed me to do one further tweak. Thank You.

Just one remaining question, where o I find the box for the duration of the snooze?

Serekob, I had to change under activity the run based on preferences to always run, and the preferences, device manager, which I cannot always find again, 75% processor use, a 0 so that it would run, reporting .0020 days, cannot remember the disk space, but more than adequate and it is running 9 projects at the moment with another 26+ odd waiting in the wings and at the last count about 6 waiting to report (not responding to do network communication-twas ever thus).

The earlier 'yell' was because every time I touched the keyboard it suspended all activity, even though the preferences were not that different from the above, but were being ignored, until I cruised the took bar

If I have serious dictation to do I will snooze the work, hence my question. In the old version I set snooze at 10 min, but don't seem to be able to find that in this latest version, and snooze seems to be at least 20 min.