Regrettably, I've had to uninstall BOINC. There are times when I need all of my processing power (video encoding jobs and the like) and have to put BOINC jobs on hold for a while. Last night I hit the pause button in BOINC's simple interface with the intention of doing just that. My process list (WinXP) still showed BOINC jobs running on both of my processors so I shut down the BOINC program and manually killed the job processes. Upon checking things out today I found the BOINC job processes running again (and using nearly all of my CPU capacity) even without the BOINC software actually running... which finally went away when I uninstalled the software. The only conclusion I can draw is that BOINC does whatever it wants regardless of what I tell it to do. I've run across viruses with similar behavior in the past and I removed them as well.

I have a reasonable amount of processing power on several machines that I wouldn't at all mind donating but there's no way that'll happen with management software which doesn't listen to me. Versions from several years ago did what I told them but it would seem that I'll have to wait a while before "progress" takes things back to the way they used to be.

Requests for more information should be directed to my email since I'll not be checking this thread. Cheers.