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Ashton

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Message 22263 - Posted: 3 Jan 2009, 1:49:11 UTC

"boinictray.exe" stays running after exiting the Boinic Manager from the taskbar tray.
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Message 22267 - Posted: 3 Jan 2009, 9:04:30 UTC - in response to Message 22263.  

Boinctray.exe is the idle keyboard and mouse detection application. At the moment it's still only started from the registry, meaning that if if were to be stopped at the moment BOINC Manager and the client stopped, it could only restart by doing a reboot or log off/log on.

So this behaviour is for now by default and nothing to worry about. It isn't interfering with anything else.
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Message 22277 - Posted: 3 Jan 2009, 20:20:11 UTC - in response to Message 22267.  

That does not appear to be true ...I can start Boinctray.exe by running the exe from the Boinc directory. I have limited RAM so I like to stop all unnecessary processes when running RAM intensive programs ...like most games. I know it only uses just over 1.6MiB ...but every MiB counts. Is there some sort of reason that this behaviour is the default? ...it seems kind of... messy for a program to leave a process running when it is shut down.
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