Version 4.13
AMD 3200
Win XP

Keep getting the same message:
Failed to cleanup the Windows sockets interface

Any ideas?
Thanks

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Welcome to CPDN Trismegiistus.

That one's not something you need to worry about. BOINC has detected that it's already running (either as a command line service or another GUI interface).

If you've installed the command line service you need to make sure that there are no boinc_gui shortcuts in any startup folders on your system.

If you're just running the GUI interface and the startup shorcut is in the all users folder and you're in the habit of switching between users you'll get the message every time a new user is logged in.

The other possibility (unlikely, but it has been known) is the way you're trying to run the program. The BOINC GUI interface creates a <b>B</b> icon in the system tray which you should double click to open the user interface. If you've got XP set up to auto-hide system tray icons you may have the impression that BOINC isn't running and be trying to start it up again from the shortcut or the folder you installed it in. That'll generate the error too.

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"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This comes from the project starting twice.
i.e, you have it in your startup folder and in the "all users" as well.
I don't think you have to worry about it, but if you don't want to see it again, check the folders and remove the one you don't want.
(It often happens when you decide to run it as a service.)
Sorry again, Thyme Lawn, you were quicker than me.

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