Greetings

Hi!
My anti-virus kicked out a program - ctrestrt.exe.

At this time, an install of the new (6.6.28) version of BOINC was running - and it popped up an error message that said:

"The feature you are trying to use is on a network
resource that is unavailable.
Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate folder containing the installation package 'BOINC.msi' in the box below."

I assumed the problems were connected.
Is ctrestrt.exe part of the BOINC install?
Can you tell me what it does?

My ant-virus is 'Kaspersky Internet Security 2009' and it works well.

Thanks,
Jay

PS ctrestrt.exe was installed in ... windows\system32.

Thanks again.

At this time, an install of the new (6.6.28) version of BOINC was running - and it popped up an error message that said:

"The feature you are trying to use is on a network
resource that is unavailable.
Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate folder containing the installation package 'BOINC.msi' in the box below."

I assumed the problems were connected.

I don't think so. The only reference to that file that I can find is in combination with spyware. The solution to the network resource error is given in this FAQ.

And so:

Is ctrestrt.exe part of the BOINC install?
Can you tell me what it does?

No, not part of the BOINC installer or Windows installer.

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Jord,
Thank you for such a quick response.

I went back and uninstalled and re-installed version 6.6.20.
(The uninstalled failed because it couldn't find a good msi file.
You were right!!!
The install of 6.6.20 over whatever was there went OK and I started the BOINC manager.)

I made another cup of coffee and started reading other postings - and read the one about sending in a log of the install.

I re-ran the install of 6.6.28 with the logging option - and it ran OK this time.
(( Just goes to show that a problem won't repeat when you want it to. ))

One difference was that I had left 6.6.20 running when I started the re-install.
Usually, I suspend all tasks and exit when installing the Boinc Manager.

I'll let the current WUs finish - and then I'll run a memory check and disk check.

Thanks again for alll of the help!!

Jay