Futile? Phapp!!! The only time I've caught a virus is when I neglected to give the mafia (Norton) they're cut. Cough up the yearly fee for Norton's virus updates and sleep peacefully.

Works well with BOINC but BOINView is still reporting inaccurate times. Perhaps it needs more time to sort itself out.

Thanx for that RickH. I was indeed using the old version of BoincView and one of my machines is now showing the same finishing times but still having probs with my dual core jobby. Boinc is reporting accurate times but BoincView is still wildly out.

So, I've got BoincView 1.2.5 running in combo with BOINC 5.4.9 since June 11, 06. Observations are:

1. Logs proper all results completed. No points per result are recorded, though the Projects tab does show the comulative correct number, same as BOINC....why not...and could this feature be added (suspect it difficult since the submission of result and feedback of points has including pending validations and inconclusives a substantial time gap)?
2. Boincview seems to disengage much longer from BOINC, than the instructed times....not discovered what the frequencies are.
3. Various calculations / estimates are wrong as the base CPU time and particular the completion clock times are way off...e.g. presently a WU says completio at 21:21, where my spreadsheet algorythm gives 19:37 wallclock time on an 8 CPU hour crunch. BOINCview seems not to learn from past CPU times versus clock times.
4. The Estimated Points is based on the BOINC benchmark, thus the base number is correct, but since the CPU hours are wrong, the number is wild. The number on the presently processed WU is only giving points on time completed, not on estimated CPU end time.... pretty useless since a crashed WU will give zero points.
5. Never saw a single message passing thru the message tab....whats the info there to show?
6. Estimated speed field..never seen anything in this column
7. CPU efficiency column, suggest on first connection that its computing with the "one moment" indication, then after few minutes goes to "0.00000" and never waivers from that....whats the info there to show?

Possibly i got a setting wrong. Its connected via "direct access". Tried the "via network" option, but wont connect, asking for a password where i've used machine and user id's as well as boinc account keys and password to no avail.

Any hints on this?

thx

Errata: See below post on the fixes. Only the Bolded item numbers are remaining suggestion/quiry

DiDactylos thanks... i had already created the 2 cfg files from the Wiki instructions when installing BOINCview, but somehow i pasted the second BOINC account hex into the 'auth' file...now understand the link. All now works and the CPU efficiency, TTtC and WallClock completion times are now very close to the mentioned spreadsheet calculation....semi-real-time....and put in archive.

The Learned here is, that the direct connect somehow does not transmit all ...RPC being the vehicle to move the info around. I'll edit my previous post and indicate which items are resolved / am happy with.

PS: Sunbelt of Kerio Personal Firewall also analysed my Firewall Logs and tipped me of on the some considerable 'hidden' CPU time loss....there was a conflict with the Intrusion Detection feature between the Firewall and the Avast Antivir, which recently also had added a WebShield Intrusion function. One can only have one do that function, so only let Avast's active.....now got the amazing 97% allotment to the Science whilst writing this in FFX and using their integrated Spellbound extension

ciao.