Can anyone help with moving my BOINC software from D: drive to E: drive on my computer?
I'm running Win XP and installed BOINC as a service.

My guess is I need to:
- Stop the BOINC service.
- Move the D:\\Program Files\\BOINC folder to E:..
- and then, the tricky part: edit relevant registry entries (but anyone one know exactly which ones?)
- Restart BOINC service.

If anyone can help (with definitive/tested) suggestions it would help me continue with the BOINC experiment.

Thanks
Sanjay

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Can anyone help with moving my BOINC software from D: drive to E: drive on my computer?
I'm running Win XP and installed BOINC as a service.

My guess is I need to:
- Stop the BOINC service.
- Move the D:\\Program Files\\BOINC folder to E:..
- and then, the tricky part: edit relevant registry entries (but anyone one know exactly which ones?)
- Restart BOINC service.

If anyone can help (with definitive/tested) suggestions it would help me continue with the BOINC experiment.

Thanks
Sanjay

Just move the folder and reinstall the same or newer version pointing it to the new location.

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Can anyone help with moving my BOINC software from D: drive to E: drive on my computer?
I'm running Win XP and installed BOINC as a service.

My guess is I need to:
- Stop the BOINC service.
- Move the D:\\Program Files\\BOINC folder to E:..
- and then, the tricky part: edit relevant registry entries (but anyone one know exactly which ones?)
- Restart BOINC service.

If anyone can help (with definitive/tested) suggestions it would help me continue with the BOINC experiment.

Thanks
Sanjay

Just move the folder and reinstall the same or newer version pointing it to the new location.

This doesn't work. When re-installing it only gives the options of Repair or Remove BOINC. Repairing re-installs BOINC on the old (D:) drive. Anyone else have any suggestions?

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Can anyone help with moving my BOINC software from D: drive to E: drive on my computer?
I'm running Win XP and installed BOINC as a service.

My guess is I need to:
- Stop the BOINC service.
- Move the D:\\Program Files\\BOINC folder to E:..
- and then, the tricky part: edit relevant registry entries (but anyone one know exactly which ones?)
- Restart BOINC service.

If anyone can help (with definitive/tested) suggestions it would help me continue with the BOINC experiment.

Thanks
Sanjay

Found a solution on another post somehere deep on the message boards (cut and pasted below with my comments after arrows). This solution WORKED a treat for me:

0. Set your current BOINC installation to No New Work (from the Project tab). Let all your results complete, upload and report, so nothing is left to work. (added in the middle, and I didn't want to re-number)

--> I couldn't do this as my BOINC doesn't have this option. So I suspended CPU and Network activity and shutdown the BOINC Service.

1. Make a backup of the current BOINC folder (and subfolders).

--> Always a good idea.

2. Uninstall BOINC.

--> Bit nervous at this point but I went ahead.

3. Install BOINC, directing it to your preferred location. The screen directly following the license agreement in the setup wizard allows you to choose which drive and directory you want the BOINC client to be installed. You can change to your working drive there. Don't start BOINC yet!

--> Key sentence: Don't launch BOINC yet.

4. Go back to the original BOINC location, there will be files and folders left, without the executables. Copy them to the new location.

--> I copied all subfolders and then files in the root BOINC directory stage by stage.

5. Start BOINC from the new location.

--> BOINC Picked up from where it left off.

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Can anyone help with moving my BOINC software from D: drive to E: drive on my computer?
I'm running Win XP and installed BOINC as a service.

My guess is I need to:
- Stop the BOINC service.
- Move the D:\\Program Files\\BOINC folder to E:..
- and then, the tricky part: edit relevant registry entries (but anyone one know exactly which ones?)
- Restart BOINC service.

If anyone can help (with definitive/tested) suggestions it would help me continue with the BOINC experiment.

Thanks
Sanjay

Found a solution on another post somehere deep on the message boards (cut and pasted below with my comments after arrows). This solution WORKED a treat for me:

0. Set your current BOINC installation to No New Work (from the Project tab). Let all your results complete, upload and report, so nothing is left to work. (added in the middle, and I didn't want to re-number)

--> I couldn't do this as my BOINC doesn't have this option. So I suspended CPU and Network activity and shutdown the BOINC Service.

1. Make a backup of the current BOINC folder (and subfolders).

--> Always a good idea.

2. Uninstall BOINC.

--> Bit nervous at this point but I went ahead.

3. Install BOINC, directing it to your preferred location. The screen directly following the license agreement in the setup wizard allows you to choose which drive and directory you want the BOINC client to be installed. You can change to your working drive there. Don't start BOINC yet!

--> Key sentence: Don't launch BOINC yet.

4. Go back to the original BOINC location, there will be files and folders left, without the executables. Copy them to the new location.

--> I copied all subfolders and then files in the root BOINC directory stage by stage.

5. Start BOINC from the new location.

--> BOINC Picked up from where it left off.

Steps 3&4 are reversed. It should be uninstall, move the directory to the new location, then install to the new location. That way you don't have to worry about trying to stop BOINC from running at the end of the install.

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