Hi,

What is your Operating System?

Doubtlessly you selected the screensaver option during the boinc thingy installation, but you can check by typing screensaver in the windows 7 start menu command box. The applet then comes up with whatever selection. Take the dropdown box and see if boinc or world community grid is listed, then pick that.

Opening boinc does not show graphics until you select a running task and then hit the 'show graphics' button at left. In simple view you get that by hittng the 'task commands' button and pick 'show graphics'. This is assuming you have actual running tasks that show a remaining computing time and a percent progress bar.

Is the button text black or grayed out? Once upon a time graphics were not available if the agent was installed as a service, but with windows 7 and agents of 7.xx and up, presuming you pulled the installation thingy from wcg, there is not that issue.

Did you install boinc as service with 'allow all users'. That seems to be recommended as when you sign in as regular user, not as admin, you'd no rights, not even to open the boinc manager and connect to running agent and see progress.

Back to the screensaver applet, if you hit preview, you see the project graphics? At least that's what is taken from the 'screesaver solved'.

If you can't remember what options you took during the installation, uninstall and do it again. Carefully read the screens and take in one the 'advanced' button to get access to the 'service' and 'allow all users'. Default is for neither to be selected, though screensaver would be iirc when it is a first clean happening.

Got firewall / av software, there may be the problem. For the screensaver and graphics screen to show complete, not just the bouncing logo, the screensaver/graphic app needs to connect to the boinc core application. This is done via a protocol called rpc over localhost ip 127.0.0.1. Possibly your security software is blocking this 100 percent never to leave your pc, rpc traffic. At one time had to set exceptions for the 4/5 application parts boinc is made up off, boinc.exe boincmgr.exe boinccmd.exe boincscr.exe and something else not remembering att. Nowadays, just doing a single general exception for the c:\programdata\boinc folder, which is where the data and science apps are when installing as a service. As user install, don't know. Look in the startup event log of boinc manager where the path is printed.