My bad, I should have noticed that the "allow service..." is only available when running as a Local Service. Duh!

However, with your post, along with some configuration of mine, I now have the best of all worlds. I am now able to:

1. See graphics from the manager when running BOINC as a service
2. Have the logged-in user screen saver show graphics
3. Have the "default user" (login window) use the BOINC screen saver with graphics as well

The third point was the hard one to obtain, which I could not get until your post about "allow service...". The reason I want this is the machines I am running BOINC on sit at the login window for much of the time. When I ran UD, I was able to view the graphics from the login window, allowing me to monitor the work unit progress. I can now do this with BOINC as well. What I have also done is configure the BOINC saver to "Go to blank screen" after 1 minute. This way I can view the graphics for a limited time (1 minute) so I don't sacrifice much cruching time to graphics.

You must apply the BOINC screen saver registry keys to "default user" in order to make these final configs apply at the login window.

I am documenting all of this, so I can put it up on my WCG site (you know the one).

Seems that you forgot one of my config options, so I would avoid showing graphics for too long. It's an important consideration for me, and I will definitely include this power-related detail in my write-up.



I also have these machines set to power off the monitor after 45 minutes, so I'm covered. However, my machines don't have power-hungry video cards, mostly on-board Intel chipsets, so I'm OK. I just didn't want to sacrifice too much CPU to showing graphics. BOINC has a good number of options, and in the right combination and with the right tricks you can do a lot.

I've begun testing this config on two systems. Hopefully it works well so that I can put it in my labs as a permanent config.