LOL. So you can upgrade to Vista and then downgrade to XP :D :D
This is so ridiculous I really am LOL'ing!
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There is nothing wrong with Vista. A lot of people have an antipathy to it. It has a lot of useful things that XP not has. It has a lot of unnecessary things too I admit. However it works fine with all my applications, such as Office 2007, MathCAD and some programs developed by my company. Even the peripherals work without problems and most drives are available. Networking is handled almost automatically, IMAP settings in mail are handled automatically, try to do that with XP, and the multiple clock in the taskbar is nice.
The only “problem� is that BOINC is telling that Windows XP is installed but the PC is working with one of the first versions of Vista Ultimate and has service pack 1 installed as well. And that is what I would like to have explained as I have another PC with Vista and that is what BOINC shows, thus somewhere BOINC can see a difference…
Local computer stores DownUnda very quickly discovered that offering Vista exclusively for new systems was a deal-breaker far too often. So after flogging Vista heavily for about two months they went real quiet on it, and now market their gear with either XP or Vista as options to be defined by the buyer. One senses some disappointment felt by these vendors pining the loss/waste of some back-end deal. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Local computer stores DownUnda very quickly discovered that offering Vista exclusively for new systems was a deal-breaker far too often. So after flogging Vista heavily for about two months they went real quiet on it, and now market their gear with either XP or Vista as options to be defined by the buyer. One senses some disappointment felt by these vendors pining the loss/waste of some back-end deal. :-)
All BOINC does is read what OS your OS is saying it is and using that.
Anomalies can happen when you are running BOINC executables in Windows compatibility mode as then BOINC will read that the OS is what the OS says it is in compatibility mode.
Make sure (again) you checked both boinc.exe (the actual client) and boincmgr.exe (the GUI) on compatibility mode issues for all users (!).
Make sure (again) you checked both boinc.exe (the actual client) and boincmgr.exe (the GUI) on compatibility mode issues for all users (!).
Thank you Jord, that is the solution.
I checked both executables but no compatibility mode idle. Then I checked for all users and there at the second application the compatibility mode was idle. So your help gave the answer to this “problem�.
But I have to give a lot of credits to Gundolf Jahn as well as he was the first and quickest with this answer. I failed to check for ALL users.
One keeps learning all the time.
But I have to give a lot of credits to Gundolf Jahn as well as he was the first and quickest with this answer. I failed to check for ALL users.
One keeps learning all the time.
RE: LOL. So you can upgrade
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Nah, the downgrade is only offered if you buy a new PC, which has vista pre-installed. But funny nonetheless :-)
Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)
RE: RE: Microsoft offers
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Greetings from
TJ
RE: RE: LOL. So you can
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I figured that, but just couldn't resist the dig :-)
Local computer stores
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Local computer stores DownUnda very quickly discovered that offering Vista exclusively for new systems was a deal-breaker far too often. So after flogging Vista heavily for about two months they went real quiet on it, and now market their gear with either XP or Vista as options to be defined by the buyer. One senses some disappointment felt by these vendors pining the loss/waste of some back-end deal. :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: Local computer stores
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Mojave Experiment
"Secret camera" commercial for Windows Vista...
Rushing to Vistas rescue are
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Rushing to Vistas rescue are we? =) I thought this was about Boinc misreporting Vista as XP, not if XP is better than Vista or not.
Team Philippines
RE: Rushing to Vistas
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This is true. And I want to know why this happens, but the answer has to come from the BOINC programmers I think.
Use XP if you like or Vista or Linux or...
Greetings from
TJ
All BOINC does is read what
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All BOINC does is read what OS your OS is saying it is and using that.
Anomalies can happen when you are running BOINC executables in Windows compatibility mode as then BOINC will read that the OS is what the OS says it is in compatibility mode.
Make sure (again) you checked both boinc.exe (the actual client) and boincmgr.exe (the GUI) on compatibility mode issues for all users (!).
RE: Make sure (again) you
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Thank you Jord, that is the solution.
I checked both executables but no compatibility mode idle. Then I checked for all users and there at the second application the compatibility mode was idle. So your help gave the answer to this “problem�.
But I have to give a lot of credits to Gundolf Jahn as well as he was the first and quickest with this answer. I failed to check for ALL users.
One keeps learning all the time.
Greetings from
TJ
RE: But I have to give a
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We're getting quicker. It only took a month. ;-)