Three of my computer have just quit running the BOINC program...6.6.38. All are Dell Quad cores and running the QMC project. One is a Windows XP OS and the other two are Windows Vista. The BOINC icon in the task bar shows the icon with a small red circle. I tried to reboot a number of times and the program opens up but then the red circle comes up on the icon in task bar. I have done a restore on all the computers but no change. I deleted the BOINC program and downloaded again. No change.Upon restarting the computers the icon come on and shortly thereafter stops working. My task manager shows the program working for a short time when turned on and then stops working. On the BOINC Manager under the message tab the information shows the normal start up of all projects I work and the start up of the projects I am working on that computer and nothing else. One dialogue box over the icon in task bar states 'reconnecting to client'. One dialogue box came up and some thing about "not a correct password". Have 7 other computers working and no problems. Any ideas about what the problem is?

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a restore would likely wipeout any work you had since its a snapshot of your OS and programs at a specific point in time. If you delete and reinstall without restarting your computer you'll be reinstalling everything right where it was before. You need to uninstall. restart then install. I still think you killed your previous work though.

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

and some thing about "not a correct password".

Google is your friend, but do be verbatum about error messages (ex: was it "The password you have provided is incorrect, please try again").

As an fyi, I get that from time-to-time when Boinc gets overloaded (2000+ WU's)and I'm trying to rotate between tabs. All the projects then disappear, which gets your heart racing for a moment. But killing the Boinc service and restarting resolves it. Your case sounds different, here is what I found with Google, apologies that it's a bit of a techie dive, but worth a shot as those 3 machines sound dead in the water (note: Read the second paragraph first, that's the meat of the info):

In the boinc directory is a file named gui_rpc_auth.cfg. This contains the password. If the file doesn't exist, it is automatically created, with a long alpha-numeric password, when boinc runs. This is the password that the manager is wanting. You can cat this file, or open it in a text editor to view the password. You can manually edit the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file to contain either an 'easier to remember' password, or no password at all. The password should be on the first line of the file, and should have a single carriage return at the end. To eliminate the password, a single carriage return on the first line of the file is needed. The use of the password will depend on how you have things set up from a security standpoint. If you change the password, you will have to stop and restart the boinc client for the new password to take effect.

Once you have determined, or changed your password, (and restarted boinc if you change it) you can use the File>Select Computer menu option in boincmgr to select the computer (localhost) and enter the password. This should now have you connected via the manager, and allow further inspection of other problems.

If any of this is folly or time wasting, apologies. I didn't try this out first on my box, because frankly it's working fine at the moment ;-)

EDIT: Grrrr, "Select Computer" is no longer under File, it's under Advanced, Select Computer.