hi
i recently had to reinstall boinc as my system crashed. i had no problems until i created another user account. now when that user is logged on boinc will not run and asks me to enter client info (and i am clueless what that means). before the crash i had no such problem when a 2nd user was logged in.

please help!

thanks,

lenette

BOINC isn't all-knowing. When you first install BOINC and then create a second user account in the OS, BOINC won't know about it until you tell it about that other user account.

Can be done by uninstalling BOINC & reinstalling it, then click Advanced in the third screen in the installer, check the option "Allow all users on this computer to control BOINC".

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thanks for your help. i uninstalled and reinstalled BOINC, this time selecting 'allow all users...' unfortunately that didn't fix the problem. once i switch to the other user i get a pop-up window stating 'another instance of BOINC manager is already running on this computer. please select a client to monitor.'
Host name:
password:

L

No luck.
did as you instructed but unfortunately that didn't fix the problem. when i switch to the other user i get a pop-up window stating

'another instance of BOINC manager is already running on this computer. please select a client to monitor.'
Host name:
password: '

i do not know what 'client' refers to so i don't know what to enter...

thanks
L

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intelligence is not necessarily an evolutionary advantage.

BOINC consists of two main parts, the client (Boinc.exe) and the Manager (Boincmgr.exe), which is a graphical user interface through which you can give commands to the client. Making contact with it is one of those commands.

When you get a message like "another instance of BOINC manager is already running on this computer.", it means exactly what it says: You have started BOINC Manager (BM) already, or there's one running on that computer. Since 6.12 it's no longer possible to run multiple BOINC Manager instances without pointing all of them to their own client. Only one BM can show the contents of one client, any other BM running on the system needs to be pointed at another Boinc.exe, installed in a different directory than the one the present one is installed in.

How do you switch to the other user? By fast user switching, or by logging off and back on? If by fast user switching, as far as I know this won't work with BOINC, unless BOINC is installed as a service (protected application execution).
By fast user switching, you essentially tell Windows to leave everything of the other user running --thus stored in memory-- yet not visually show that to you.

One other way for you to try is to exit BOINC Manager, but leave the science applications/tasks running and then do the user switch. Or log off and back on with the other user.

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thank you for your help. i do have one more question...

do you suppose BOINC is running all the time, regardless of which user is active? when i switch back to my account the icon is displayed in the taskbar and i am able to open manager, altho when the 2nd user is active this is not the case. if BOINC is not running during another user's session, then i will be sure that the computer always be returned to my session when no one is using it.

lenette

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intelligence is not necessarily an evolutionary advantage.