Ops!

Replying to my own post. Think of it as an appendix and another question.

I was struck by inspiration. I had just fitted an wireless network card miniPCI to my system. Did what I could to see that it was theortically functional and then, as I don't have wi-fi at home so couldn't test it any further, disabled it via 'Device Manager' (Win XP).

I re-enabled it and... BOINC started to register activity for CPU Time and Progress and To Completion. There may, though, still be problem as pre-card install the Progress (%) would would be updated on every third-decimal place increment (though not necessarily one digit increase at a time). Now it seems to update only second decimal place increments, thus (for example):
3.250
3.300
3.350
etc.

Never done that before.

Questions:

Is this some kind of bug in BOINC?
Does this mean that have to enable the wireless card at all times (just to run BOINC)? If it does mean that then might have an ongoing problem as a system meter that I have shows there is a fair performance cost on CPU frequency involved in running the wireless all the time.

Argh!

MeToo, regarding your first post, that's perfectly normal for any workunit of any project as initially its setting itself up in memory. The percent counts you give in your second post are typical of a Help Defeat Cancer on BOINC, which go in steps of 0.050%. Usually the first 10 minutes you'll see CPU time progress....then the percent and time to complete pick up. You might see percent freezing again later...seen one at 25.000%....after a few minutes it will continue again as CPU time has continued uninterruptedly.

ciao

New projects are always enabled by default.

Thank you Didactylos, thank you Sekerob,

Seems I can't delete the thread so that thanks are here.