Windows Vista lost Userdata

volker kleiner
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I have vista installed and after a reboot the project and the current workunits are lost. Any hint´s ?
Greetings from Germany

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Windows Vista lost Userdata

Did you do a full install, or just a Vista upgrade? It is possible, Vista re-wrote over your entire previous operating system and data, or wrote over the registry entries for BOINC. Just a possibility.

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volker kleiner
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RE: Did you do a full

Message 60344 in response to message 60343

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Did you do a full install, or just a Vista upgrade? It is possible, Vista re-wrote over your entire previous operating system and data, or wrote over the registry entries for BOINC. Just a possibility.

It is a complete new PC with Vista and a 32 Bit Ultima Version.
That selfemade PC running VISTA is perfect running include Einstein - untill a reboot.

Strong enough for crunching Einstein:
Vista Test

Prozessor: 5.3
RAM: 5.6
Grafics: 5.9
Grafic-Game: 5.8
Disk: 5.9
Summary: 5.3

I like it ;-)

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This is the main complaint

This is the main complaint about Vista and BOINC: Do a reboot and lose the ability to run BOINC. You need to do a reinstall of BOINC after each reboot. So for the moment do no run BOINC on Vista. The developers know about it, but there's no fix yet.

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RE: This is the main

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This is the main complaint about Vista and BOINC: Do a reboot and lose the ability to run BOINC. You need to do a reinstall of BOINC after each reboot. So for the moment do no run BOINC on Vista. The developers know about it, but there's no fix yet.


I thought that installing to a directory outside of the "program files" tree was a workaround for this problem. I don't have vista so I don't know for sure though.

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I can start boincmgr.exe

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I can start boincmgr.exe under Vista by checking "run as Administrator" under the compatibility tab and adding USERS with full permissions under the security tab of boincmgr's properties.

Still having a problem with auto-start after boot and I am not yet certain BOINC is running 100% as it should. I just came up with this workaround.

Reapiring the install after each reboot is 100% though.

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Fact: BOINC doesn't support

Fact: BOINC doesn't support Vista yet. If you have problems, they are probably known, but not solved. Yet. The devs will surely have a look at it, but don't ask when.

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