We have had considerable success in helping people, you know. The grid software compares favourably in terms of stability with any commercial program.

Most of the issues we deal with are caused by problems with the user's computer - spyware, software conflicts, poorly configured security software. Of the remainder, they are nearly always caused by issues with individual work units and WCG always work fast to resolve such problems. You must expect a few more of these issues during a project launch, as previously unidentified issues come to light.

I don't even know what [expletive] software you are talking about - UD, BOINC, the application software? You posted in the UD forum, so can I suggest, if you dislike it so much simply switch to BOINC. It's much nicer.

Whilst WCG, The C.A.'s and the volunteer Members do anything in their power to help a member, just starting as a Cruncher, or having acquired the Ace Cruncher status, it puts no one to shame to do a little reading, before opening a thread......a member somehow came here and loaded UD or BOINC, so must have had a formed opinion to participate. Using expletives ** or symbols representing such do not invite for anyone to be hugged and cuddled by the community.

** Though understood in context, had to look the word up for its exact meaning, first when Dirk Gently used it, so here's what Meriam Webster has to say:

I tried at work and at home on two different PC's - Same OS - WinXP SP2 - Followed instructions on the Help Page and Disabled (or added really) the option to let UD.exe run via (Control Panel-> System-> Advanced-> Performance Settings-> DataExecutionPrevention).

No blocked ports on the Router (Lynksys).

Disabled the "Windows Firewall" all together.

Not running any Virus Software at all. (in 20 plus years of computing I have never once had a virus)

I even enabled all the other projects but still get the same message - "Sending" / Then "Receiving 3xxx of 3xxx" and then "See Cause,html"

I suppose I could've started a new thread for this - but I feel pretty much like the guy who posted the original starting post. Just think about how many other people you've lost who won't go this far in trying to make it work.

Like it or not most people don't care how many flipping units you have processed, they just want to feel like they are doing something good.

They want to install the software and forget about it, perhaps view the first few results out of curiousity, but after that they are not going to want to even know it's running. The more attention it brings, the more likely they will uninstall it becuase it inteferes with their daily tasks.

Hint: Enabling a screen saver without asking is annoying when you already have your pc set up the way you like it. If you want to change something about my PC setup then freaking ASK me first in the setup.

In any case people aren't going to take the time trying to make something work for two basic reasons.

1. They lack the knowledge
2. They shouldn't have to do anything beyond installing the program

This is the cold hard truth - you are missing god knows how many users becuase of this problem.

I know I don't want to keep coming back to this forum to see if there is a fix or recommended solution that someone may or may not post. I saw this same problem with Seti - it's a shame that this software doesn't give people more help than it does - Error messages would be a nice start. (ie: "Can't communicate with Servers - Check blah blah blah"

Oh Well, Good luck to everyone!

Snowblind

After browsing some other posts I found this BOINC program (No one ever puts a link for it however so my friend google told me where to find it. ( http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ ) and I just have to ask why it isn't the default program used for this?

Very easy to install - Then just add the website url ( http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org ) and have at it...