I know this sounds silly, but I've run into an interesting issue with Boinc on Win 7.

From a clean install of Win 7 Professional with a clean install of Boinc (downloaded from the WCG website) installed as Service, the manager will not load work, nor generate any messages in the message log NOR the stdxxx.txt logs.

If I totally repeat process but install NOT as a service, the manager logs in and finds work to execute.

Now that is silly in/of itself, but it gets wierder.

Do the same thing (clean Win/clean Boinc) on a Win 7 Home Premium, and get almost same results, except the manager now generates errors in the message log (pasted below). When I go into project manager, log in, I receive additional messages (ending with final line...."Account manager error: file not found".

I clean the system off and reinstall (all from scratch) without SERVICE, and everything runs fine.

AND THEN the piece-de-resistance.........I do the same on a Win 7 Ultimate....and it all works as advertised.

Recreated the same tests 4 times on 6 different pieces of hardware with the same results, and always different hardware with different OS and different Boinc settings. What is consistent is that AS A SERVICE, my results "No Bueno" unless on Win 7 Ultimate.

I must add that I've been running on Win 7 Ult and Win XP for over 6 months now without issue. Once I upgraded (clean) the XP system, the strange things started happening.

RydeDivine



Message Log from latest attempt is:
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_x86_64
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Running as a daemon
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Running under account boinc_master
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10]
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Processor: 2.00 MB cache
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx tm2 pbe
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||OS: Microsoft Windows 7: Home Premium x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.01.7601.00)
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Memory: 7.97 GB physical, 15.93 GB virtual
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Disk: 97.66 GB total, 56.06 GB free
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Local time is UTC -5 hours
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||No usable GPUs found
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Preferences:
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM|| max memory usage when active: 4078.59MB
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM|| max memory usage when idle: 7341.46MB
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM|| max disk usage: 10.00GB
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM|| don't use GPU while active
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM|| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM|| (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Found project_init.xml for http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Not using a proxy
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||This computer is not attached to any projects
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for instructions
3/19/2013 9:14:37 PM||Suspending computation - initial delay
3/19/2013 9:14:50 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/get_project_config.php
3/19/2013 9:17:12 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
3/19/2013 9:17:12 PM||Reading preferences override file
3/19/2013 9:17:12 PM||Preferences:
3/19/2013 9:17:12 PM|| max memory usage when active: 4078.59MB
3/19/2013 9:17:12 PM|| max memory usage when idle: 7341.46MB
3/19/2013 9:17:12 PM|| max disk usage: 48.83GB
3/19/2013 9:17:12 PM|| don't use GPU while active
3/19/2013 9:17:12 PM|| suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 %
3/19/2013 9:17:12 PM|| (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
3/19/2013 9:17:20 PM||Suspending computation - user request
3/19/2013 9:17:21 PM||Resuming computation
3/19/2013 9:21:18 PM||Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
3/19/2013 9:21:20 PM||Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
3/19/2013 9:22:28 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.com/get_project_config.php
3/19/2013 9:22:39 PM||Contacting account manager at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
3/19/2013 9:22:39 PM||Account manager error: file not found