If I close a maximised visualisation it re-opens as a full-screen window which can only be resized using the keyboard. Stopping and restarting BOINC sets it back to the default settings.

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I get worst here. I tried the same thing as you. Bad news for me ... BOINC didn't crash but I lost 36 hours of works.

<i>climateprediction.net - 2004-08-07 11:09:14 - Unrecoverable error for result 00a6_000025351_0 ( - exit code 1073807364 (0x40010004))
climateprediction.net - 2004-08-07 11:09:14 - Computation for result 00a6_000025351 finished
climateprediction.net - 2004-08-07 11:10:15 - Sending request to scheduler: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi
climateprediction.net - 2004-08-07 11:10:19 - Scheduler RPC to http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc_cgi/cgi succeeded
climateprediction.net - 2004-08-07 11:10:19 - Started download of 01g6_000026863.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-08-07 11:10:24 - Finished download of 01g6_000026863.zip
climateprediction.net - 2004-08-07 11:10:24 - Approximate throughput 2321.927243 bytes/sec
climateprediction.net - 2004-08-07 11:10:24 - Starting computation for result 01g6_000026863_0 using hadsm3 version 4.02</i>

I did nothing to restart the new simulation.

CP dev-team : The scheduler received the failure status but if you need some files of this simulation, most of them are still in my BOINC\\projects\\climateprediction.net directory. Can I delete them ?

Hmmm. Sounds like BOINC might not have closed the model down cleanly :(

I got into the habit of suspending execution before I exited BOINC during the alpha trial because I was occasionally losing models in a similar fashion on start up.

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&gt; Hmmm. Sounds like BOINC might not have closed the model down cleanly :(
&gt;
&gt; I got into the habit of suspending execution before I exited BOINC during the
&gt; alpha trial because I was occasionally losing models in a similar fashion on
&gt; start up.
&gt;

The problem is ... I didn't even tried to close BOINC GUI. This had occured when I tried to open a new graphic window after I closed the minimised one.

That's *really* strange. Tried closing visualisation when it was minimised to the taskbar. Reopened as minimised (so it looks like it's always opening at its last state/position) and now I can only have it maximised or minimised. Until I restart BOINC, of course ...

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I have seen this behavior, what I do is drag the window down so I can grab a corner to resize it (you may have to click on the middle "maximize/std size" box to get to the appropriate "non-maximized but big screen" to move the window).

I guess the one drawback with having an "all-in-one" app that does computation as well as graphics is that if the graphics crashes it forces the model to crash.