Hello, and thanks for reading my post.

First, my apologies if I don't quite explain this clearly. Still, I hope you'll get the gist of what I'm trying to describe.

I am currently running BOINC 7.2.42 on my Windows XP machine, the latest in a long line of BOINC versions I've run over the years. However, this is apparently the first time I'm experiencing this with it...

After the requisite several minutes before the screensaver "turns on" (with a BOINC logo and words like "BOINC screensaver loading" appearing on screen) but then, quickly, "turns off" (the onscreen image goes to black as the image seems to want to reduce itself to an item on my taskbar).

Shortly thereafter, though, it tries to "turn on" again and the cycle seems to resume, and without the screensaver ever stopping on either of the two (2) BOINC applications that it usually would run (i.e., SETI@Home & ClimatePrediction).

I'm not doing anything to cause this "turning off" (which could understandably happen if I'm intervening with, say, a keystroke or move of a mouse), so I'm wondering if (a) there's a bug in this version and/or (b) something else could be going on inside my computer that I'm not aware of.

Any insights, please?

Thanks,
Bram Weiser

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It's not you or your system, it's a problem with the BOINC screen saver. It's known, the developers are looking into it. It happens on all versions of BOINC from 7.2.34 onwards, it doesn't happen with the screen saver in 7.2.33 and before.

So, until it's fixed, your options are to not use the BOINC screen saver, or if you strongly must, to return to 7.2.33, download links available in post 51551 in the Change Log thread.

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Glad I'm not the only one! I tried to figure this out to no avail.


I thought for a while that it was my ESET anti-virus prog but that seemed to be a dead end.

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