I have a related question to the previous BOINC service install question.

I've tried to install BOINC as a service on a computer of my fiance's mother's but she has no password on her XP computer account. BOINC won't install (service) without a XP password. The obvious would be to password the account on the computer and then install but she doesn't want a password. Is there another way around this issue?

Thank you.

http://bbugs.axpr.net/index.php is down:
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Is there a fix for the next boinc version later 5.8?
ERROR: buffer too small in MFILE::vprintf() -->continuously logs in stderrdae.txt

I need a better xml administration because all changes you get only by restarting boinc (url changing, skins etc.)

Correction:
Skin.xml functionally otherwise by its own, would be good for other xml`s

Some peoples and teams are designing skins for Boinc 5.8.0. There are a couple of questions:

1) In the advanced view - Help - first entry starts http://www.rechenkraft.net/manager_links.php?target=advanced . Is it possible to configure this URL in skin.xml? i can only configure the domain.

2) If I click with the right mous button on the icon in the taskbar (windows) and select the first entry the page bam.boincstats.com is loaded. Is this URL configurable?

3) My skin on windows looks good, but on Mac the pictures seems not to fit. See in the middle above "Graphics Available".
Windows: http://www.altes-beckhaus.com/cf_miko/dlc/rk.jpg
Mac: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/134/332170353_d39c4ca101.jpg?v=0

4) Would be also nice to be able to change the font color in skin.xml (for elapsed time, time remaining, application name,...).

5) There is something wrong with these files:
-background_image
-project_area_background_image
-dialog_background_image
-workunit_area_background_image
If the format is ".jpg" such as documented in Creating Skins the Manager shows only standard, with ".png" no problem.

yoyo

The current beta linux clients show about a 10% improvement in benchmarks. Is this as good as it gets, or are further improvements likely in the future?

For the first poster, asking about the account password, there are quite a few options.

The first is:
1. Put a password on the account.
2. Install BOINC as a service.
3. Go into 'Services' (Right-Click My Computer and hit 'Manage', then go to Services on the left). Then right-click the BOINC service, go to Properties, and then the Log-on tab and check the Local System Account, and also the 'Allow service to interact with Desktop'.
4. Close that and then remove the log-on password on the user account.

The other option is to put a password on the user-account and then set the computer to automatically log in to that account at startup.
Just set the password on the account, and then do Start > Run > Type: 'control userpasswords2' (without the quotes). Select the account you want to automatically log in, and then uncheck the 'Users must type a password...'. Enter the password and you're set.

HTH
Danny

In addition to the above, i forgot to mention, as Rom has posted recently, that running anything under the LocalSystem account isn't ideal from a security point of view.

The option I forgot to mention, is to set up a second user account for BOINC (doesn't have to be administrator), and then install BOINC to run as a service under that account. You can use the 'control userpasswords2' trick to make sure the computer always logs into the main user account without asking for a password.

HTH
Danny