1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Is there a way to change the BOINC logo in the system tray? (Message 205259) Posted 7 Dec 2005 by maddenc Post: I would love to replace the BOINC "B" with the dish-icon from the Classic Seti@home. Has anyone tried? succeeded? There was an icon-file, as I recall, in the classic program-folder (a gif, perhaps?). I thought I might copy it into the new seti or BOINC folders, but they contain no such image files that I could detect. Any ideas welcome. Thanks.

2) Questions and Answers : Windows : To BOINC or not to BOINC? VOTE HERE! (Message 205248) Posted 7 Dec 2005 by maddenc Post: OzzFan1: Thank you very much for your cogent response. I should of course have mentioned that I am running XP, but I'm glad to know the shut-down problem is not unique. I will try again with the latest version of BOINC and hope for the best. The "Battle for the CPU" and extra-logo issues may have been isolated incidents. If they crop up again, I'll be back. Is it best to start a fresh thread for the problem? I think that's what I'll do regarding the dish-logo. Finally, thank you for avoiding condescension. I realize how frustrating it must be for adepts like yourself to see folks like me, who have never invested serious time in the arcana of either seti or BOINC, blundering around the new interface as if the sky were falling. Call us the blissful idiots: we spent years "doing good" without having to apply much effort, and now we feel we've been forcibly turned into beta-testers, into the early-adopters that we are (I am) most decidedly not. I am grateful for having seen posts like yours on this and other threads that assured me help was there for the asking, and most particularly grateful to find your response clear, factual, jargon-free and nonjudgmental. Chris Madden

3) Questions and Answers : Windows : To BOINC or not to BOINC? VOTE HERE! (Message 204395) Posted 6 Dec 2005 by maddenc Post: Well, there are obviously a lot of strong feelings about the change. I, for one, am glad to see that I was not the only person humbled by the switch. I became so frustrated that I uninstalled yesterday. And though I'm finding that a less satisfying solution today (for one thing, what the heck will I use as a screensaver!?), I empathize with all those too frustrated to continue. Seti@home classic ran flawlessly on my computer for years. Still, I'd hate to give up without making some sort of effort, so I will avail myself of the offered help. My two biggest beefs with BOINC were that (1) some element of it never seemed to run properly. The evidence of this was that everytime I shut down my computer, I would (after a long wait) get an "End Now" dialog-box on some element of BOINC (sorry, I did not capture the text of the message or the process-header). This rogue process may also have contributed to (2) the fact that starting up had slowed way down and on at least one occasion, a BOINC-related seti@home process attracted so much attention from the Zone Labs vsmon.exe traffic-monitoring function that the two processes together completely absorbed my CPU (a three-year-old Dell desktop with an Intel Celeron CPU running at 2.20 GHz with 256 MB of RAM). Other minor distraction were things like multiple BOINC symbols showing up in the system tray, only one of which was active (by the way, is there a method for substituting the old seti dish for that stupid "B" logo?) and BOINC manager opening then immediately closing at starup (and taking its damn time about it, too). Is it possible to run the screensaver, with graphics, without running BOINC manager? That ought to be enough questions for a start. Please pardon my ignorance, but I have honestly not had time to search through all the FAQs to see if each of my questions is answered somewhere. I dont want to give up without a fight (though I find the new graphics distastefully large--must be age or something), but so far the pain-quotient has been awfully high. Thanks in advance for any help.

 
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