Nancy, try opening a second instance of Boinc Manager, after you said No to the first one (retry again message).

- if the second one can open, you can close the first one.
- if the second one won't open either, try a computer power down, wait 10 seconds, then start up again. That fixes it for some.
- if it didn't, exit BOINC completely and go to Add/Remove programs, find BOINC and repair install it. That fixes it for some.
- if it didn't, try an all out uninstall and reinstall of BOINC (if you want as a service, this does need an administrator account with password).
- and finally if that didn't, then just start up Boinc.exe in your \\BOINC\\ folder. That will open DOS window, but at least it'll be able to connect to Boinc Manager.

The problem you are having is that Boinc Manager, for whatever possible reason, starts up before Boinc.exe (the daemon) does. In most cases this is a mis-communication, where some other program has already picked up on Boinc's listening port 1043. This is the main port that your Boinc version is using for communications between Boinc and Boinc Manager. If the port is already in use (by pesky Windows XP or Outlook, for instance!), the two can't start up their comms session and thus you'll be given the above error message.

The new upcoming version has this fixed in so far, that it is using another port. Until Micrososft steals that one as well, of course. ;-)

Andy, she can't copy the messages, as she can't get into BM. ;-)