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Former Member
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For some odd reason, my machine always starts all the applications in my "Startup" folder twice. I have several machines and I see this behavior on all of them. The Windows agent doesn't always handle this situation well -- two instances of the program starting up at about the same time. One reports the duplication but the other fails to initialize. So, fairly frequently, I have to restart the agent manually. Needless to say, if I also frequently see that it is not running after some fairly long period of time. Could application startup collision detection be improved to prevent this?
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Dirk Gently
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Mar 1, 2005 Post Count: 153 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Best to find out how/why it is starting more then once.
----------------------------------------Use MSCONFIG (START-RUN-"MSCONFIG") This will show you everything that starts up. Look in "services" to see if you have installed as a service. Look in "Run" for duplicates - this includes the start menu and Registry run items. |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
One of the causes of having double Start-ups, if the programs allow at all, is if one changed from All Users Menu to Individual Menu option. If u seek out in Explorer, under Admin rights the various AutoStart folders in the different profiles, u may discover one or more may exist under All Users and under the Personal profile menu. Normally the entries in All Users should appear under any user signing-in. The one mentioned by Dirk, having installed BOINC as a service, but also put as shortcut in the Startup Profile causes it too.
----------------------------------------In my case, can start it regular, then start it again under same user.....maybe it was designed to allow it as a workaround, one having admin rights on BOINC, the other just as viewer.....at least if i start a second session (my Work Profile, no admin right), i cant do anything but look how BOINC is doing. WCG has no grips on BOINC double application detection other than communicating with Berkeley BOINC developers......doubt it's considered a problem.....757,170 registered world wide using BOINC on different projects.....i'm ranking 129365 at the moment on the Global x-project scores ;>) http://nl.boincstats.com/stats/boinc_user_sta...=129300&to=100#129365
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