Me! wrote:

"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!

Sounds like your registry has become corrupted, and there are incomplete 
entries for advanced visualisation which are confusing Windows. Get a 
registry cleaner. Ashampoo has a good one (www.ashampoo.com: WinOptimizer), 
as does pctools (https://www.pctools.com: registry mechanic).

Brian