Don't know if this is a repeat (and I apologize if it is).

I successfully run several BOINC projects on newer machines (WIN 2K, WIN XP, and WIN XP PRO) and was hoping to add my old machine to the group to run SETI Beta (enhanced) which I have been told will run on WIN 95 (however slowly). In order to properly score credits this project uses FPOPS which requires 5.2.8 or newer for the BOINC manager. All of these managers require WIN 98 or newer OS (discovered when I tried to install).

Is there any possibility of the newer versions ever supporting WIN 95 (I am not willing to upgrade the OS and I am not Linux proficient). If not, I guess a lot of good old machines will be left in the dust.

Thanks, and again appologies if this is a repeat question.

!! Stupidity should be painful !!

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Do not think they will go backwards

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BOINC Wiki

You should be able to run on win95 however you will need winsock2.

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BOINC WIKI

BOINCing since 2002/12/8

You should be able to run on win95 however you will need winsock2.

My system has Explorer 5.5 update and all the updates Microsoft provided before dropping support. I believe that I have Winsock 2 also (I had already been made aware of that requirement - thanks). Is there a simple way to verify what version of Winsock I have?

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I posted on the Seti Beta Site a link for Win 95 hard to find patches including Dial Up Networking 1.4 and Windows Socket 2 Update. This site also provides support for various old Windows OS.

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

I posted on the Seti Beta Site a link for Win 95 hard to find patches including Dial Up Networking 1.4 and Windows Socket 2 Update. This site also provides support for various old Windows OS.

I saw your post on the SETI Beta website and appreciate the information. I still think I have Winsock 2, but would like a simple way to verify (the version information on the file does not indicate this and I have a back-up of an old Winsock which leads me to believe I have already made this update).

Also, BOINC 5.2.8 and 5.2.13 specifically come up with an error message (aborts installation) that says that says Windows 98 is the minimum supported OS. I don't see how just updating the WInsock (if it is the old version) will get past this trap. Versions earlier than 5.2.8 do not report FPOPS for proper credit scoring on SETI beta, so I'm not interested in installing an older version of BOINC (4.45 will install).

Agin, I appreciate everyones efforts to help with this problem, but I just don't have the time to keep fighting installations.

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I posted on the Seti Beta Site a link for Win 95 hard to find patches including Dial Up Networking 1.4 and Windows Socket 2 Update. This site also provides support for various old Windows OS.

I tried again to install on my WIN95 system with no joy. Install was successful using the command line with the /a option, but BOINC Manager keeps asking for oleacc.dll after install. I tried both downloading this file from the DLL download site and copying from my WIN2K system. Both versions of the file give me an error saying The OLEACC.DLL file cannot start. Check the file to determine the problem.

I guess it just wasn't meant to be :-(

Thanks to everyone for trying to help, but I'm just too darned frustrated to keep trying at this point.

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I posted on the Seti Beta Site a link for Win 95 hard to find patches including Dial Up Networking 1.4 and Windows Socket 2 Update. This site also provides support for various old Windows OS.

I tried again to install on my WIN95 system with no joy. Install was successful using the command line with the /a option, but BOINC Manager keeps asking for oleacc.dll after install. I tried both downloading this file from the DLL download site and copying from my WIN2K system. Both versions of the file give me an error saying The OLEACC.DLL file cannot start. Check the file to determine the problem.

I guess it just wasn't meant to be :-(

Thanks to everyone for trying to help, but I'm just too darned frustrated to keep trying at this point.

Finally have acheived succes with WIN95 with the help of many good people over at SETI Beta. Running BOINC 5.4.9 attached to SETI Beta and crunching.

If someone else wants to do this here is what finally got the system wotking. Install the manager from a command window with the /a option (boinc_5.4.9_windows_intelx86.exe /a - substitute the correct installer if not using 5.4.9). The next problem is finding a version of oleacc.dll that is for WIN95 (later versions WILL NOT WORK - I got a dummy version compiled for WIN95 from one of the guys on Beta). If you can find one, just copy it into the BOINC directory and VOILA. Create a shotcut to the manager exe file, run the manager, attach to a project, and happy crunching.

Thanks to all who helped get a successful result

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