Ozz -- you've posted a number of replies to this particular issue under multiple threads. You defend BOINC while acknowledging the preferences issue, yet you offer no assistance or useful advice to others on how to remedy the problem. If you know how to fix this problem, why don't you say so. If you're not having this problem yourself, please don't assume that it is not a real problem for others, and if you don't know how to fix it, why bother to post a reply at all?

I know how long this project has been running and I know how many hundreds of thousand of systems are crunching away at the data every day, but that doesn't mean the BOINC software doesn't have problem.

I'm running the very latest version (5.4.11 BOINC), and even after repeated installations, it simply refuses to run based on the preferences I've set, and there are a lot of other users making these same complaints. I've set my preferences (and SAVED and UPDATED) repeatedly. I want the processes idle when I'm working, with a delay of 5 minutes after no activity, but the process continues to run continously 24/7, unless I manually suspend it.

Again, if you can help, please do. If not, quit wasting our time with useless replies.

My general preferencer still are not updating for Seti, are they ever going to fix it????

BOINC has done this since day 1, it wont follow your preference settings to run during idle periods and it runs all the time. I quit when it first came out because of this, was just invited back over a year later, and it is still broken.

That is incorrect information. This problem has only been recent, and anyone that has been running it for the past year can attest to this fact. If you haven't been around for a year, you can hardly state that the problem has been around since day 1 without knowing what's been going on for the last year.

Further, I've used every version of BOINC since v3.19 and the preferences have always been honored as far as I can recall, with the exception of this past week.