I think many people don't have all their exe's nearby, I've always been very pleased with BOINC and even alpha builds but this should be a must. F.e., all your programs are located in one folder. It would be so much easier to be able to link to the shortcuts instead of looking up all executables themselves! Your opinion?

Windows: Start->All Programs->BOINC->BOINC Manager. That'll start BOINC and is all you need.

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No, that's not what I mean.

Boinc - Tools - Computing Pref - Exclusive Applications.

You can only link to REAL executable files. It would be very handy to also be able to link to shortcuts, as long as the Target (the location of the exe it points at) remains the same. Your opinion?

I think you understand this option wrong. With it you can set which applications BOINC should suspend its calculations for when they are found in memory.

Shortcuts aren't stored in memory, they merely point to where a program is. BOINC also won't retain the full path to the program that you want to Exclude. It'll just check every 10 seconds whether or not any of the programs in that list are also to be found in memory, and once one of them is, it'll suspend all operations, or those for the GPU only (depends on if you have separate <exclusive_gpu_app/>'s set in cc_config.xml).

But I see what you mean about needing to point out where each program is, which can be a meddle finding it. While us Advanced users will just add any program manually through cc_config.xml, I'll ask the developer to add an option that doesn't require filling in the full path.

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Ah, we're on the same line here. Interesting to see how the software really works, and also equally nice that you dropped a featreq at the developers. I'll continue to monitor the progress and will keep using the alphas which have been trouble free in about 90% of the builds :)

The only thing that'll happen without a full path is that the user needs to make sure he spelled the application name correctly. Which isn't easy, seeing how people manage to misspell BOINC already. ;-)

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