I have two computers (one Win2K, another WinXP) running BOINC 24/7. Every 5-7 days I use dial-up on both systems to report computed results and get new work. When I do this, BOINC always greets me with a whole herd of stacked-up pestering messages about its unsatisfied need to go online, which I then have to laboriously click on one at a time to get them to go away.

At no point does the software actually NEED to go online, since BOINC has 10-12 tasks stacked up - way more than enough to last those 5-7 days without running out of work, even when crunching 24/7.

Why isn't there a MUTE switch for this BOINC software?!?!?

Would running BOINC as a service and simply not running the manager, until needed, fulfil your requirements?

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Cheers,
Gary.

Which version of Boinc do you have?
version 5.2.x
Under the Options menu set the reminder frequency to 0.
version 5.4.x
The Options are in Advanced menu.

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

RE: PREVIOUS MESSAGE.
It may not work as I expected.
You will need to test it out. It seem to works on the latest Alpha version but I'm not sure what version the 0 setting actually suppressed the message.

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

RE: PREVIOUS MESSAGE.
It may not work as I expected.
You will need to test it out. It seem to works on the latest Alpha version but I'm not sure what version the 0 setting actually suppressed the message.

Last I tested that, I got the message every second when setting the reminder slider to zero. I'd just set the reminder slider to as big as possible.

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RE: PREVIOUS MESSAGE.
It may not work as I expected.
You will need to test it out. It seem to works on the latest Alpha version but I'm not sure what version the 0 setting actually suppressed the message.

Last I tested that, I got the message every second when setting the reminder slider to zero. I'd just set the reminder slider to as big as possible.

It you suspend network you don't seem to get any messages. But I only tested it for a half hour. It did finish 4 WU during that time period. I'm using v 5.8.5

RE: PREVIOUS MESSAGE.
It may not work as I expected.
You will need to test it out. It seem to works on the latest Alpha version but I'm not sure what version the 0 setting actually suppressed the message.

Last I tested that, I got the message every second when setting the reminder slider to zero. I'd just set the reminder slider to as big as possible.

It you suspend network you don't seem to get any messages. But I only tested it for a half hour. It did finish 4 WU during that time period. I'm using v 5.8.5

I'll have to check on the exact version, but it's probably the latest or close to the latest version - I don't think it's more than 6 months old.

Setting reminders to zero generates mega-mega-messages, so I set it to the maximum value instead. This results in the "minimum" number of pestering messages. However, when running unattended for days on end, I still get lots and lots of messages on the Win2K platform (they just stack up on the desktop constantly, a new message every two hours or so). On the WinXP platform it's something like two messages for every completed task, or two messages per day - whatever the figure, it's less pesky than Win2K, but still annoying - I don't want ANY messages at all.

I have tried suspending network activity. BOINC doesn't care - it pesters away regardless. The only time I have noticed that it doesn't pester is when no task is 100% complete. But since my World Community Grid tasks only run 10 hours or so, this isn't much of a relief.

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Would running BOINC as a service and simply not running the manager, until needed, fulfil your requirements?

It's possible that this could work. What would I need to do in order to try that configuration?

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I'll have to check on the exact version, but it's probably the latest or close to the latest version - I don't think it's more than 6 months old.

There have been more than a dozen test versions on the last 6 months for sure. Check Help | About on the manager.

Uninstall BOINC.
Reinstall BOINC.
In Installer, use the option "Install as a service" (same screen as Single User install and shared User install, bottom option).

You do need a Windows administrator account with a login password for this though.
It will not work with a blank password. (edit, but seeing you have Windows 2000, you can't have a blank password anyway ;))

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I'll have to check on the exact version, but it's probably the latest or close to the latest version - I don't think it's more than 6 months old.

There have been more than a dozen test versions on the last 6 months for sure. Check Help | About on the manager.

It's BOINC 5.4.11 on both Win2K and WinXP.

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