WCG Tech Assistance Thread

Chicken Patty · Jan 13, 2011

As the title states, any issues or tech assistance that you need related to WCG, post it here. :toast:

***BIG THANKS TO KieX for the idea :toast:

Pembo210 · Jan 13, 2011

I asked this in the "Crunchers helping Crunchers" one, didn't get a response...

Help! :confused:

When I open BOINC and then open the Prefs, it opens that window on my screen to the side(Monitor2). Even when I disable Monitor 2 it still opens there. I can see a tiny slit of the window on the right side of Mon 1 but i cant grab it or "right-click -> Move" from the taskbar. I have to enable Mon 2 just to close/move the window :mad:

. I can't do anything with BOINC until that Prefs window is closed. :banghead:

Is there a Reg entry or something that will make it open on Mon1?

[Ion] · Jan 13, 2011

Have you tried restarting? If so, can you uninstall & reinstall BOINC?

Chicken Patty · Jan 13, 2011

Try to open it and dragging it to monitor 1. After you do that shut down BOINC completely then open it back up and see if it now comes out on monitor 1.

[Ion] · Jan 13, 2011

Ohhh that's a good idea.....

Pembo210 · Jan 13, 2011

[Ion] said:
Have you tried restarting? If so, can you uninstall & reinstall BOINC?

Oh yeah. Restart, enable/disable monitors, make another monitor my primary monitor, opening and closing the BOINC windows from different monitors....

It always opens that Prefs window to the right where I cant grab it unless I have that monitor enabled/on.

Pembo210 · Jan 13, 2011

Chicken Patty said:
Try to open it and dragging it to monitor 1. After you do that shut down BOINC completely then open it back up and see if it now comes out on monitor 1.

Will try at lunch time... Im at work right now

[Ion] · Jan 13, 2011

Pembo210 said:
Oh yeah. Restart, enable/disable monitors, make another monitor my primary monitor, opening and closing the BOINC windows from different monitors....

It always opens that Prefs window to the right where I cant grab it unless I have that monitor enabled/on.

Very strange, in that case I'd definitely try CP's suggestion.

Pembo210 said:
Will try at lunch time... Im at work right now

TY, keep us posted

Chicken Patty · Jan 13, 2011

Let us know how it goes dude.

KieX · Jan 13, 2011

I very embarrasingly posted this on the wrong TPU thread today :slap:

I think I found the key relating to where BOINC manager opens the window in registry. Although I don't really know much about editing things in there so someone else may be able to help:

Code:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Manager

You have two values corresponding to window coordinates: XPos and YPos. Maybe you are missing these entries and it's why it's not saving where you close the window. If you do have them I guess I'm all out of ideas.

[Ion] · Jan 13, 2011

Not so sure about editing hex codes, but here you go:

Pembo210 · Jan 13, 2011

Chicken Patty said:
Try to open it and dragging it to monitor 1. After you do that shut down BOINC completely then open it back up and see if it now comes out on monitor 1.

Chicken Patty Nailed it! :respect:

I moved my Prefs window to the middle of Mon1, closed that window then went to the tray icon, right click -> Exit, then relaunched BOINC. Now both windows open in the middle of Mon 1 :toast:

I just got back to work. I'll look more into the Reg entries when i'm messing around later.
(It looks like it has a default skin, we might be able to create custom TPU skins for the BOINC manger)

Edit: There is a way..here - New link

[Ion] · Jan 13, 2011

Excellent, I'm very glad to hear that you have it resolved!

KieX · Jan 13, 2011

Glad it got sorted :rockout:

Nice find on the skin thing too. TPU definitely deserves it's own gonna PM t77 in case he can use his firefox one as a basis.

Chicken Patty · Jan 13, 2011

Can you tell I speak from experience. I have three monitors LOL. things disappear every now and then LOL.

[Ion] · Jan 14, 2011

Multiple monitors can be great but they can also be a huge pain in the ass

Chicken Patty · Jan 14, 2011

[Ion] said:
Multiple monitors can be great but they can also be a huge pain in the ass

Yeah, they give their little issues here and there, but I will not get rid of them.

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Software	Windows 11 Pro

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Audio Device(s)	Onboard
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Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Motherboard	ASUS ROG Crosshair X670E Hero
Cooling	ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360 A-RGB // X12 Phanteks D30-120 D-RGB Fans
Memory	G.SKILL Trident Z5 Neo RGB Series (AMD Expo) DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MT/s CL30
Video Card(s)	ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 AMP Extreme AIRO
Storage	Samsung Pro 980 2TB NVMe (OS and Games) // WD Black 10TB HDD (Storage)
Display(s)	SAMSUNG 34-Inch SJ55W Ultrawide Gaming Monitor (LS34J550WQNXZA) – 75Hz Refresh WQHD Computer Monitor
Case	Phanteks NV7
Power Supply	Seasonic Vertex GX-1200, 1200W 80+ Gold, ATX 3.0
Software	Windows 11 Pro

System Name	Niedersachsen / Ribe / Minsk
Processor	i3 3240 / i7-3520M / 4x Opteron 6376 @ 2.86GHz
Motherboard	BIOSTAR H61M / HP Q77 / Supermicro H8QG7
Cooling	Stock / Stock / 4x 1U G34
Memory	1x8GB / 2x4GB / 4x4GB
Video Card(s)	GTX260 / Intel HD 4000 / nVidia GT310
Storage	80GB Intel SSD / 256GB Intel SSD / 2x 60GB SSD (RAID1)
Display(s)	Dell 3007 + HP 2245w / 12.1" 1366x768 / None
Case	Antec NSK3480 / HP / Supermicro 1U
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Enermax 500W / HP 130W / Supermicro Gold 1400W
Keyboard	IBM Model M
Software	Windows 7 (Niedersachsen/Ribe) / Linux Mint 17.2 (Minsk)

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