"f/fgeorge" <ffgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote in message 
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On Fri, 13 May 2005 11:48:50 GMT, "Me!"
<brianNOSPAM.carew@bigpond.com> wrote:

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.

ABSOLUTELY!!! You MAY have to re-install Boinc. If you do go to a
higher version so the machine doesn't think you are just copying
files.

Well,

after setting up ANOTHER account on the pc, and installing boinc, it all 
works - yay.... I'm still getting errors from the advanced visualisations 
though - I installed it and uninstalled it on the other account but it just 
didn't fix things.

On the primary account, I can't reinstall the advanced visualisations as it 
already exists - so windows tells me. I can't uninstall it because it 
doesn't exist - so windows tells me.  Now THAT's a good problem. If it 
wasn't such a pain in the rear, I'd reinstall everything from scratch!

Brian.