"Terry" <terry@tbean.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:dn3hr1$glb$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...

Hi All

I  have recently been forced over to boinc like a lot of other people.

With Classic I had it set up to only run as a screensaver. To save time
showing graphics - I had the screen set to go blank.
Then it finished a work unit it would then request a internet connection.

This has run fine like this for 5 years.

Could somebody please please please tell me how to set up boinc to do 
this.

The boinc software is very confusing and I have no idea how to do this and 
do
not know what it is actually doing.

I am a software engineer and certainly no novice when it comes to 
software.

Reading this newsgroup suggests that a lot of people are having these 
probems.

I am about to give up and uninstall it which seems a pity after 5 years.

I have always been prepared to donate my pc's time when not in use but
will not allocate resources during the normal operation.

Regards

Boinc connection and resources are set on your preference page under your 
account on each project.  If you do not wish connections during work hours 
then set the hours that connection allowed on the preference page.  you can 
have a general setting, home, school, and work settings.   Yu must then set 
your machine under my computers (hosts) individually as to which settings to 
use.  After that i then do a manual update to get the new settings on the 
machine.  Note if yu are running more than one project on that machine you 
should try to set each projects settings the same and make sure that machine 
is set to the same settings

Larry