Right. This morning i run a program that has shoved adware everywhere accross my computer and has changed settings that will not change back easily. So im left with one way to go.... a rebuild of my machine. I have one major problem. Im 116 hours through a CPDN work unit. I do not want to lose this work unit. If i take a copy of the boinc directory and put this back after i have rebuilt will it carry on from where it left off? Or are there also registry keys i need to back up.

Thanks
Jamie

Hi Jamie,

Best thing is to reinstall BOINC then overwrite it with your backup. If you backup to CD you'll also have to make sure that you clear the read-only setting for the restored files and folders before running BOINC.

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Well i went to do that, but for some reason (this has nothing to do with boinc) the boinc directory became corrupted during the move so i have lost the in-progress work units. What is pretty crap as i was a decent way through that work unit. However im going to leave cpdn as the only project attached for a few days so it can get a reasonable way into the new work unit.

Jamie