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Message 2028672 - Posted: 20 Jan 2020, 20:58:57 UTC
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dozens of successful installs over 20 years and never a problem until now
run as administrator - nope
windows defender firewall off - nope
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Message 2028674 - Posted: 20 Jan 2020, 22:10:49 UTC

some success

successfully installed 32 bit version per this thread
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=84998

now get this software error
Notice from BOINC
Can't detect VirtualBox because this is a 32-bit version of BOINC; to fix, please install a 64-bit version.
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Message 2028679 - Posted: 20 Jan 2020, 22:44:21 UTC

now it seems my computer does not exist even though it has successfully processed work


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Message 2028729 - Posted: 21 Jan 2020, 8:35:50 UTC - in response to Message 2028674.  

If you are only going to run SETI then you don't need to install VirtualBox.
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