"Louis Holleman" <louis@holleman.demon.nl> wrote:

Initially using Boinc 4.13 but lately I've been forced to
upgrade since Boinc no longer took new units.

I was also on 4.13, but when forced to upgrade
I went to 4.19 instead of 4.45.  Works great here
on Windows 2000.  Have you tried 4.19?