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Register BOINC as a service after installation?
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Mark A. Craig Send message Joined: 16 Jan 01 Posts: 71 Credit: 103,077 RAC: 0 |
This is weird: while installing BOINC in a fresh install of Windows 2000, I chose exactly the same installation option I've chosen before, to install BOINC as a service. The only problem is... it didn't actually do it. It left it to be spawned by BOINCMGR. Could someone please refresh my memory how to manually register boinc.exe as a service? I don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall and risk losing already in-progress work. Mark |
Pooh Bear 27 Send message Joined: 14 Jul 03 Posts: 3224 Credit: 4,603,826 RAC: 0 |
No need to uninstall. Just stop BOINC and reinstall over, all should work. My movie https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/502242 |
Mark A. Craig Send message Joined: 16 Jan 01 Posts: 71 Credit: 103,077 RAC: 0 |
No need to uninstall. Just stop BOINC and reinstall over, all should work. Sounds plausible, but the BOINC installer won't allow it. It demands either a repair - which doesn't correct this - or an uninstallation first. Mark |
Pooh Bear 27 Send message Joined: 14 Jul 03 Posts: 3224 Credit: 4,603,826 RAC: 0 |
Sounds plausible, but the BOINC installer won't allow it. It demands either a repair - which doesn't correct this - or an uninstallation first. I do not have any more help in registering it, I just looked and see you are running an optimized client, which causes this behavior. I should have figured this out before. My movie https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/502242 |
Mark A. Craig Send message Joined: 16 Jan 01 Posts: 71 Credit: 103,077 RAC: 0 |
Sounds plausible, but the BOINC installer won't allow it. It demands either a repair - which doesn't correct this - or an uninstallation first. This reply in the dup thread in Number Crunching looks like it might be a surgical solution: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=28454#253171 If that doesn't work, I'll delete the optimized EXEs and try the reinstall. Mark |
Mark A. Craig Send message Joined: 16 Jan 01 Posts: 71 Credit: 103,077 RAC: 0 |
Miras' suggestion in that other thread worked well for me, so a reinstall wasn't necessary. A reboot was required before the service was recognized and started, which I verified with Services.msc and Task Manager. Mark |
Wander Saito Send message Joined: 7 Jul 03 Posts: 555 Credit: 2,136,061 RAC: 0 |
Hi Guys, For the record, uninstalling BOINC doesn't hurt your work in progress. I've done it before to change my installation from single user to service and everything went just fine. But I made a backup, just in case :-) Regards, Wander |
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