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Message 2029565 - Posted: 27 Jan 2020, 22:07:44 UTC

the setiathome icon seems to have disappeared from my windows task bar so I now have no way to control things. yet I have 4 processes consuming 99% of my cpu. how do I get the task bar item back.
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Message 2029570 - Posted: 27 Jan 2020, 22:25:16 UTC - in response to Message 2029565.  
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Via the Start menu->BOINC->BOINC Manager. Or just type BOINC in search.

Apparently Windows removes the pinned icon when you update BOINC, because the installer will uninstall the previous version.
Not much that can be done about that, other than laboriously pinning BOINC Manager to the task bar again.
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Message 2029582 - Posted: 27 Jan 2020, 23:07:22 UTC - in response to Message 2029570.  

Since you're still up, ask whether he's talking about the main task bar, or the notification area near the clock. That one will still be present, but hidden. Can be configured.
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Message 2029583 - Posted: 27 Jan 2020, 23:20:49 UTC - in response to Message 2029582.  

Since you're still up
I am not. Lying in bed, listening to the wind battering my window, pondering if I should get up to close it. But I'm just warm.

Besides, didn't you just ask him that? 😁
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Message 2029590 - Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 0:05:27 UTC - in response to Message 2029582.  

windows main task bar
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Message 2029664 - Posted: 28 Jan 2020, 14:11:52 UTC - in response to Message 2029570.  

tks, that did the trick. I needed it when I noticed that work was not suspended when I was using the machine as seti taking up 99% of cpu.
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