I have an old computer (it runs on Windows ME...yeah I know) that I want to dedicate to BOINC exclusively, and obviously optimize my BOINC and computer settings, but I could use addition help.

So for I have set my computer graphics to their lowest, removed all the files from the Startup folder, and ran msconfig; along with deleting unnecessary programs (i.e. most of them). I also set the screen saver to turn on in 1 minute, to go blank (no graphics) in 1 minute, and set it to run even if the screensaver is not running.

Is there anything else I can, any BOINC settings I can change so this computer, and no others will devote as much processing power to BOINC and BOINC alone. Any help would be greatly appreciated, or if this subject has been discussed before please just let me know where the relative posts are. Thank you very much!

Andrew T.

Is there anything else I can, any BOINC settings I can change so this computer...

If you have enough RAM+SWAP for concurrently running/sleeping tasks (depends on if your machine will crunch for a single or multiple projects and on the set of attached projects), then I recommend you setting the "Leave applications in memory while suspended?" to "Yes". You will spare some time for restarts from tasks' last checkpoints.

Peter

you can also shut down any unnecessary windows services such as the print spooler...

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I have an old computer (it runs on Windows ME...yeah I know) that I want to dedicate to BOINC exclusively, and obviously optimize my BOINC and computer settings, but I could use addition help.

So for I have set my computer graphics to their lowest, removed all the files from the Startup folder, and ran msconfig; along with deleting unnecessary programs (i.e. most of them). I also set the screen saver to turn on in 1 minute, to go blank (no graphics) in 1 minute, and set it to run even if the screensaver is not running.

Is there anything else I can, any BOINC settings I can change so this computer, and no others will devote as much processing power to BOINC and BOINC alone. Any help would be greatly appreciated, or if this subject has been discussed before please just let me know where the relative posts are. Thank you very much!

Andrew T.

Convert it to Linux... if you prefer a GUI, then I'd suggest Xubuntu

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