One of the new Help Conquer Cancer Project.? Everyone had that auto-added to the My Project profile. If you dont like it, go there, deselect, save and it will stop. All your devices will be updated. If these unwanted jobs still come, visit the Device Manager > Device Profiles and change your selection.

If you don't want it finished, go to the Tasks tab of the BOINCmgr Advanced View, select the job(s) and abort. After, go to Project tab, select the WCG project and hit Update button in left margin. That will take care of returning the unwanted job and fetch new work, though that might take a little waiting as the update button operation often does not immediately send new work. The Schedulers need to work through to check what needto be done next.

Aborting reduces the daily quota, but as soon as a good job has been returned, that quota is restored.

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The buzz i hear pressing my ear to the train-rail is, that HCC might be finished long before FA@H experiments can be exhausted.... does not matter as all need to be crunched anyhow. Foremost....

Keep on crunching with conviction (a strange english word) as else humanity might be convicted.

This is normal. All new projects are "opted in", except when WCG think it will have a detrimental effect on members' computers. For example, the AC@H bandwidth requirements were so unusual that WCG didn't opt members in for that project.

However, all other projects have been added the same way.

You still get to opt out of anything, but new projects are treated this way for two reasons: firstly the majority of members want to see new projects when they launch without having to add them manually, and second, if projects weren't added automatically then many members would find themselves not doing any work when the projects they selected finish. That's not what WCG is about.

No, there is plenty of work to do.

But WCG have already completed 3 projects - members dedicated to one of those projects alone would have been left crunching nothing.

I understand your point, but WCG were forced to compromise on this.

Oh dear - that shouldn't happen.

It's possible you are having a problem with the device profiles. WCG allows you to choose different project selections for different profiles, so (for example) you could run AIDS on one computer and Cancer on another.

If you edited the wrong profile, it may look like the selection changed by itself. If you go to https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/viewMyProjects.do you can change all your profiles at once.