On my system I have it set to 'Run always' and never notice boinc running while using my other programs. And my system has several jobs to do besides crunching and they never miss a beat.
:)

i too run BOINC constantly. I almost never realize its running unless I am watching the logger and the MapView.

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"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible". Hebrews 11.3

Hi there,

Here's what I had to do to get it to work:

Right click on the BOINC icon in the task bar or go to the Manager and
select Commands.

Select 'Run Always'

Select 'Network Activity Always Available'

The process pop-up window appears with the BOINC display of SETI crunching data.
I closed the window, and waited.

My screen went blank after the correct wait time but no SETI display. When I
touched the keyboard to resume activity, the activity appeared to be 'underneath' the first overlay of blank/hibernate screen. BOINC is selected as my screensaver and 'go to blank screen' in desktop properties is not selected.

Am I getting this problem because I didn't select the install as 'a service type'? I just used the default install type. I can't seem to go back and
fix it without uninstalling and installing.

Thanks.

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i dont want to see this msg anymore ;[
"Suspending computation and network activity - user is active"
THERE IS NO ACTIVITY ON MY PC ;[ i killed EVERYTHING only BOINC with SETI is runnig... actually NOT runnig, because "Suspending computation and network activity - user is active"
i have EVERYTHING set the RIGHT way, and as i can see, i am not the only one who has this problem... is there any way how to solve this??? patch? new version?? i can compute like this ;[
thanx lot for help...
VictorC

Catch-22.

Every time you look to see if the message is there, you create the very message you're hoping no to see ;)

Check your General Preferences and see if "Do Work When Computer is In use" is set to yes.

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Why do the "Do Work When Computer is In use" option exist if it do not work?

I do not define always running with low priority as "do not work when computer is in use"

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Jim K wrote:

If you are not touching the KB, mouse or Jstick then some program is telling Boinc User is active, first turn screen off and see what happens.....

I'm curious what you think this would do... There isn't any communication between your monitors power button and your PC. Turning off your monitor will have no effect on how your system runs.

jonas wrote:

Why do the "Do Work When Computer is In use" option exist if it do not work?

But it does...
Change your preferences on the user page. Update that project to make the setting 'stick'.