On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:39:28 GMT, Bill Jillians <"\"Bill
Jillians\""@virgin.SPAM_NO_THANKS.net.SPAM_OFF> wrote:

Quietly we read <TF8%e.4446$K91.3859@twister.nyroc.rr.com>, unable to 
contain our credulity we realized that Rick <MLAWTON@mass.rr.com> said 
this:

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.

Yes ... it is now more inconvenient.  You have to right click on the 
Boinc icon in the system tray ...... shut Boinc down and then shut down 
your Win98.

I haven't found a better way to do it in the 3 weeks I've been running 
Boinc.

BJ.

It is NOT a Boinc issue, so you probably never will. It is a Windows
issue, the old Windows never thought there would be a time when you
would want to shut down the machien when programs were still running.
Today we do it all the time, and Win2k and above handles that very
nicely, Win98 and earlier did not.
The pif file works! But it tricks the OS to do it.