Ok,

Firstly, I'm new to this newsgroup - found it just today as I'm trying to 
fix boinc on my pc.

Windows XP box, boinc 4.25 installed and working fine. Until today.
Now it comes up 'connected to local host (0.00) where it used to have an IP.

In the task manager, I only have boincmgr.exe running where it used to start 
another program in the background. It doesn't seem to be doing this.  I had 
installed the advanced visualisation software to try and see more detail in 
the climate prediction side of boinc, but as it failed I uninstalled it 
using the windows uninstaller (bad mistake maybe?).

Now, boinc doesn't work. It will not 'connect' to the projects it used to 
(the files/directories still exist).

Any clever person with an idea?

Oh yeah, I've cleaned out the registry of all reference to the 
visualisations software, and now windows keeps trying to install something - 
used to go looking for the advanced visualisations installer until I cleaned 
out the registry. Could it be trying to run this thing anyway or installing 
anyway and THAT be causing boinc to 'not boinc'?

Regards,

Brian.