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Message 9440 - Posted: 17 Feb 2005, 5:43:56 UTC
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I am on WinXP-SP2, and I'm having troubles with my systray - startup applications sometimes not making it into the systray. BOINC is in there most of the time, but sometimes it also isn't. In this case I cannot suspend CP if I need to reboot.

Question: in this situation, what is the safest way to reboot?
- Just reboot?
- Kill BOINC and the core applications, and if so, in what order?
- Does a backup (while BOINC & CP is running) help a recovery in case something goes wrong?

I run CP 75% & S@H 25%, so I could just wait until S@H kicks in, but sometimes I just have to reboot right away.
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Message 9445 - Posted: 17 Feb 2005, 8:25:11 UTC

If it's not just a case of XP auto hiding the icon you could try using <a href="http://boincview.amanheis.de/">BoincView</a> to control your BOINC client.
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Message 9495 - Posted: 18 Feb 2005, 2:21:56 UTC - in response to Message 9445.  

Thanks for the link; I will try that when it happens next time. (No, it's not the auto-hide; it is the old WinXP problem where startup applications are not making it into the systray.)
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Message 10011 - Posted: 25 Feb 2005, 18:39:01 UTC

Instead of rebooting you can usually just logoff and logon and your systray icons will all show up... usually ;-)


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