After adding the World Community Grid to my list of projects, I discovered that WCG is a pretty arrogant project. It retitled my BOINC, and despite doing a full uninstall and reinstall, and several upgrades, BOINC still always comes up as "World Community Grid - BOINC". What I don't know if there are other little trojans left behind by WCG which may be stuffing up my BOINC environment. Anyone know how I go back to "vanilla" BOINC?

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squeak

I think WCG has made a 'skin' for the versions of BOINC you download from them.

See http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Creating_a_skin_for_the_BOINC_Manager

Typically, when you install a newer version over the top of a version you got from WCG it will not delete the Skins subdir.

Though the wiki says it should be located in the "Working Dir" it actually needs to be in the Program dir to work in Windows. In linux distros, it needs to be in the 'Data directory' listed in the Messages tab or Event Log right after startup... in fedora/RHEL/CentOS, that's the /var/lib/boinc subdir.

To get rid of the skin, you can either just delete the Skins subdir and restart BOINC, or switch to Simple View, click Preferences, then deselect the World Community Grid skin (i.e. select the Default skin) and click Save.



Hope that helps. :)