Register BOINC as a service after installation?

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Mark A. Craig Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Jan 01 Posts: 71 Credit: 103,077 RAC: 0	Message 253070 - Posted: 24 Feb 2006, 13:30:59 UTC 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 ID: 253070 ·

Pooh Bear 27 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jul 03 Posts: 3224 Credit: 4,603,826 RAC: 0	Message 253075 - Posted: 24 Feb 2006, 13:39:00 UTC No need to uninstall. Just stop BOINC and reinstall over, all should work. My movie https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/502242 ID: 253075 ·

Mark A. Craig Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Jan 01 Posts: 71 Credit: 103,077 RAC: 0	Message 253161 - Posted: 24 Feb 2006, 17:29:17 UTC - in response to Message 253075. 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 ID: 253161 ·

Pooh Bear 27 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jul 03 Posts: 3224 Credit: 4,603,826 RAC: 0	Message 253188 - Posted: 24 Feb 2006, 18:24:17 UTC - in response to Message 253161. 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 ID: 253188 ·

Mark A. Craig Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Jan 01 Posts: 71 Credit: 103,077 RAC: 0	Message 253198 - Posted: 24 Feb 2006, 19:38:51 UTC - in response to Message 253188. 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. 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 ID: 253198 ·

Mark A. Craig Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Jan 01 Posts: 71 Credit: 103,077 RAC: 0	Message 253211 - Posted: 24 Feb 2006, 20:17:41 UTC 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 ID: 253211 ·

Wander Saito Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Jul 03 Posts: 555 Credit: 2,136,061 RAC: 0	Message 255401 - Posted: 28 Feb 2006, 22:58:03 UTC 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 ID: 255401 ·

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