Good morning guys.

Well, to begin with, I freely admit to being a BOINC sceptic. It appears to me to be far too complicated and cumbersome for the average Joe to follow. But, here is what I've found so far.

It took forever to download all the required files to my 56k modem machine, and the connections setup can be a little difficult to get right with a 56k. I found that it connected automatically but did not disconnect when up/download had completed.

The good news, it's possible for those with a dual processor or HT machine to run both versions at the same time. The bad news, BOINC is using quite a lot of RAM.

However, as our friend keithhenry seems to be convinced that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, I have it running on two of my machines on a trial basis. I haven't uninstalled the standard version yet because I want it there if I decide to return to it.

Well, I tried, but couldn't manage to get BOINC working. This is what I did:

1. I downloaded BOINC, version 5.2.13 for Windows, using Netscape 7.2
2. I ran a virus scan on it -- successfully
3. I shut down every program I had running except for Zone Alarm (firewall)
4. I shutdown and removed the client for World Community Grid, using Windows Remove Program agent
5. I ran 'Registry Cleaner', and then created a restore point
6. I attempted to load BOINC, but received the following error message:
"Provides all t has encountered a problem and needs to close ..." (snip ... and the data this error report contains is as follows:
AppName: boinc_5.2.13_windows_intelx86.exe
AppVer: 10.1.0.238
ModName: kmw_dll.dll
ModVer: 6.3.4.2
Offset: 00002fc8
etc.")
7. I shut down my computer, and then after restarting I kept only my ZoneAlarm firewall running and again attempted to install; same error message.
8. I reluctantly shut off my firewall and tried again; same error message.
9. I deleted the downloaded BOINC file, and loaded M.S. Internet Explorer and then downloaded the BOINC program again, thinking that Netscape might have messed it up.
10. Attempted installs again with and without connections to the Internet, and with and without my firewall running; same error every time.
11. I went to my Internet Security Panel and lowered my security settings to their lowest, and with my firewall disabled the installation again failed.
12. I then went back to my restore point, reloaded WCG, and resumed running the regular client for WCG.

I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong. I'm running WindowsXP with all current updates, on a 2.6ghz system with a Celeron processor, 512mb RAM, 240gb HD. I'm sure it should work. The error message, above, made me wonder if my system is missing that .dll file, but I did a search and found it in my systems folder -- with a modification date of 1/19/2004 at 1:44 PM, so I don't know if that has been modified since then. I don't know enough about computers to know if that is what the problem is or how to fix it. I don't mind working on my system, but I wasted time that I could have been crunching with the regular WCG client.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Bill Velek

Well, to be fair, I don't pick up the electricity bill, but my employer (IBM) does. I work at a testing facility that has a lot of hardware that is frequently used for testing (but not always). So when it is not used for testing, I put it to good use to run the WCG agent (in accordance with company policy). What I do put in is the effort to install the agent time after time, since the tests wipe all previously installed software and the WCG agent can not (yet) be installed in an automated fashion (unattended install). It is sometimes time consuming and quite tedious to reinstall it on a hunderd PC's. So, I do not invest my money, just my spare time ...

No, not the greatest thing since sliced bread, just a LOT better than the UD agent.

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