Hello,

Windows XP Home SP2
Firefox 1.5.0.8
IE7

I just upgraded BOINC from v5.2.13 to v5.4.11 and have a couple of questions:

1) After upgrading and Rebooting, I see that I now have two(2) BOINC Manager Icons in the System Tray...
How do I fix it so I have just one Icon?

2) Upon a Start or Reboot, the BOINC Manager starts maximized and stays like that until I manually minimize it to the System Tray...
How can I get BOINC Manager to start minimized to the System Tray?

Thank you!

Telstar

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The reason for two Icons would be that you are starting Boinc twice. First, which install option (Single-user, Shared or as a Service) did you use and was it the same as your original install. Did you originally install as administrator or as a logged in user. Although you can only have one instance of the Boinc software running, you can have many instances of the manager open at the same time.

Check your Startup folder to see if you have two Boinc shortcut.

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

The reason for two Icons would be that you are starting Boinc twice. First, which install option (Single-user, Shared or as a Service) did you use and was it the same as your original install. Did you originally install as administrator or as a logged in user. Although you can only have one instance of the Boinc software running, you can have many instances of the manager open at the same time.

Check your Startup folder to see if you have two Boinc shortcut.

Thank you for your reply.

When I go to C:\\Documents and Settings\\Telstar\\Start Menu\\Programs

it shows two different BOINC's:
...this one in it's own Folder:
1)

...and this one in the Startup Folder:
2)

I didn't want to delete anything until you suggest which one.

which install option (Single-user, Shared or as a Service) did you use

I would have installed as Single-user since I am the only person and the Administrator of this computer.
I'm not 100% certain but, am pretty sure I would have installed as Administrator.

Thanks,

Telstar

(these Forums should have a message/reply "Preview")

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This is what I suspected. You originally installed as adminstrator, but upgraded as a user. I believe you can choose to keep either one, although I never experienced this myself.

I downloaded mine as Administrator and it's in the Startup folder.

If you're well into a big workunit like climate prediction, I'd back up the complete boinc folder before experimenting, just in case. I'd then suspend the workunit and exit from boinc before deleting one of the shortcuts, again just in case.

You'd still be able to restore the icon from the recycle bin if the deletion makes anything go wrong.

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