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Message 64573 - Posted: 1 Oct 2015, 8:44:09 UTC

My problem installing the new version persists, and the thread with some suggestions has petered out. I want to now, completely delete BOINC and try again from scratch. What steps do I take to acheive this?
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Message 64593 - Posted: 1 Oct 2015, 21:55:45 UTC - in response to Message 64573.  

... and the thread with some suggestions has petered out.

That's mostly because just about no one can get here, due to router trouble at Berkeley campus. I sure can't get here most of the day.

Anyway, how to completely remove everything BOINC is pointed out in this BOINC FAQ.
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Message 64603 - Posted: 2 Oct 2015, 9:29:22 UTC
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Hmmm, just tried that, no good. It says it can't find BOINC.msi. I can, and it is where it should be. I think the fact that the drive in here is F: and it is looking for a network drive or resource rather than a bog standard rotating disk in the machine is indicated.
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Message 64604 - Posted: 2 Oct 2015, 10:20:53 UTC - in response to Message 64603.  

I think the fact that the drive in here is F: and it is looking for a network drive or resource rather than a bog standard rotating disk in the machine is indicated.

I often install BOINC Data to a ramdisk (X: drive or whatever), and to completely uninstall BOINC I have to run regedit and delete all the BOINC entries. Otherwise, if I want to re-install BOINC Data to a different drive later, the installation will usually fail, since it is looking for the wrong path. I also do service installs of BOINC, which produce a few extra entries.
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Message 64611 - Posted: 2 Oct 2015, 17:46:44 UTC - in response to Message 64603.  

For that error we also have a BOINC FAQ.

Sorry I couldn't answer earlier, up until a minute ago I was unable to reach these boards. Not sure now how long it'll take this time.
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Message 64718 - Posted: 6 Oct 2015, 10:03:51 UTC
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It doesn't work. It believes F: to be a network resource which it claims is unavailable. So step 1 of the process fails.

What steps do I take to do this by hand. I can see that deleting the registry entries, which is easy enough, is a possibility, is there more to it than that?
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Message 64744 - Posted: 7 Oct 2015, 12:26:05 UTC

Forget it folks. I put 7.6.6 back up and it is running.
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