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ericinboston
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jan 12, 2010 Post Count: 259 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi. I have Win10 Pro and the WCG agent was installed as a non-Service and ran fine for months.
----------------------------------------Today, I uninstalled WCG, rebooted, and reinstalled it but this time as a Windows Service, and rebooted. When I logged into Windows, the normal thick client agent was running next to the clock and it remembered everything about me. I could not find anything in Windows Services that looked like WCG or IBM or BOINC. Therefore, I do not think this is running as a Service. 1)How can I confirm if this is truly running as a Service? 2)I believe since the reinstall knows everything about my projects and my account, the "uninstall" earlier left stuff behind which may have also prevented it from truly installing as a Service. Can you confirm my suspicions? 3)The reason (hopeful) I want to install it as a Service is so I do not need to actually be logged into Windows. For example, I can power on the desktop and walk away and WCG will just run while Windows waits for someone to log in. If this is what the Service install is meant to do, then great. If not, can I do this? I want this machine to run 24x7 but it is rebooted fairly often AND there are times nobody is logged into it. Thanks so much in advance!  [Edit 1 times, last edit by ericinboston at Sep 5, 2019 1:39:05 AM] |
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ca05065
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ctrl-alt-delete
menu appears choose task manager select services tab to show all services and their status (running, stopped) look for BOINC |
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ericinboston
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Thanks...I didn't think to look at the Services tab in Task Manager...I had gone straight to Windows Services (services.msc).
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hchc
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Thanks...I didn't think to look at the Services tab in Task Manager...I had gone straight to Windows Services (services.msc). Should be identical lists. In fact, the Services snap-in (services.msc), running as Administrator, is probably the better way to get to Services GUI. I haven't installed BOINC as a Windows service in a few months, but there should be a BOINC service listed there. And if you get to Local Users & Groups, there should be 2-3 local BOINC groups created and BOINC users. Your use case (having BOINC auto-start with Windows boot even before anyone logs in) is a perfect use case for installing as a service. I had some issues with MIP1 graphics causing errors, so I just re-installed as a non-service since I'm always logged in anyways. Looking at the BOINC GitHub, there is some discussion on overhauling the security of how it gets installed as a service, potentially for the distant 8.0 client release.
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Former Member
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How to update Boinc client for Windows? Just install new version over the old or need to erase old version and install new? Projects that I currently running on my machine will be lost with Boinc client update or not?
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hiimebm
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You can install a new version over an old one (it will safely exit if the old ver. is still running) and it should work, assuming you use the same Service settings (I've done it before).
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Former Member
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Thank you for your answer. JUst one more question for new ARP project, where I need to enable option leave application in memory while suspended? I saw that people recommend this option because of just only 8 checkpoints.
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