On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:44:03 GMT, "Rick" <MLAWTON@mass.rr.com> wrote:

Hi.. I'm having problems shutting down Windows98se while running Seti (BOINC
V4.45) When I click the shutdown button a window opens up on the screen and
says I must shut down BOINC before the computer will shut down.  I then
click the OK button, and a end task window pops up, then I click the end
task button and after a minute the machine will shut down. This was not the
case with seti classic or BOINC  when they first came out and  I began to
run them. I could shut down windows/computer normally.  Help Please. Plll
450, 256 RAM, broadband cable 4megs, and BOINC has access through Firewall.
Thanks  Rick.

you need a special pif file, it is a Windows problem and you need a
small file to tell it to skip trying to be careful about unloading
stuff in memory. This is fixed in newer versions of Windows.
You would put this small file in the Boinc directory and then the
machine will shutdown fine. If you just remember to shutdown Boinc or
Classic first it won't give you the error message.