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Can you send me a copy of C:\ProgramData\BOINC\projects ?  (Vista location).
So I can do a real time check what is causing this crash.

I know it's a lot, but I just don't feel like trimming any of them down. Plus, some computers I run BOINC on can't handle large projects, like aqua/cpdn/qmc that I would still like to run anyway.

How do you want me to send this to you? Do you want me to put it all in a large ZIP file? How will I transfer it to you>

Is the BOINC tab visible? And if so what projects do you see.

aqua.dwavesys.com
boinc.bakerlab.org_rosetta
boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de_boincsimap
boinc.fzk.de_poem
boinc.gorlaeus.net
boinc.umiacs.umd.edu
cbl-boinc-server2.cs.technion.ac.il_superlinkattechnion
climateprediction.net
docking.cis.udel.edu
einstein.phys.uwm.edu
genlife.is-a-geek.org_genlife
hydrogenathome.org
lhcathome.cern.ch_lhcathome
MindModeling.org_beta
qah.uni-muenster.de
ralph.bakerlab.org
registro.ibercivis.es
spin.fh-bielefeld.de
vcsc.cs.uh.edu_virtual-prairie
www.rechenkraft.net_yoyo
www.worldcommunitygrid.org

Set the CPU and GPU  temp to 100C. Wait for the Use CPU and GPU go to 100%.
Then select active.

Still crashed.

EDIT: Now the program crashes every time I try to set Auto-Active, even though there's a value set for Core Temp.

Try removing the folding at home programs from the program list in the first program tab.

Tried, no change.

Ok start regedit (start->Run and type regedit ENTER) and if the program asks for  a password (in vista) login as the user that uses TThrottle.
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software->eFMer->TThrottle and please write down the settings.

To save me time, here's a Print Screen: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4351/regeditp.jpg

Tell me what OS are you using 32/64 XP/Vista/Win7.

Vista 64

Go to the installation directory of TThrottle and start Installdriver and choose remove.
Delete the entire directory of TThrottle and  start the installation again

I've already uninstalled it/reinstalled it previously (including deleting the directory after uninstallation) with no success. It's currently uninstalled.

Ok another thing is might be go to Configuration screen -> Programs and look for the installed program Microsoft visual C++ 2005 Redistributable.
That part is tricky because it may be used by other programs.
Remove (deinstall) Microsoft visual C++ 2005 Redistributable and install TThrottle again.
In the registry delete the complete TThrottle tree.
Tell me when does it crash ... seconds after startup. Any message?

It would crash in maybe 2-3 seconds after opening and give a "this program has stopped working" window.

But, that fix worked. It's running now.

EDIT: Now the program crashes every time I try to set Auto-Active, even though there's a value set for Core Temp.

Ok start regedit (start->Run and type regedit ENTER) and if the program asks for  a password (in vista) login as the user that uses TThrottle.
Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER->Software->eFMer->TThrottle and please write down the settings.

To save me time, here's a Print Screen: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/4351/regeditp.jpg

Tell me what OS are you using 32/64 XP/Vista/Win7.

Vista 64

Go to the installation directory of TThrottle and start Installdriver and choose remove.
Delete the entire directory of TThrottle and  start the installation again

I've already uninstalled it/reinstalled it previously (including deleting the directory after uninstallation) with no success. It's currently uninstalled.

Every time I open TThrottle, it crashes immediately. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling, and there's no change. I also tried both the stable and the beta versions, and both of them exhibited the same behavior. I don't know what to do at this point.

Yes I have been thinking about that. But that is rather limited in information. But I could give the temp and the amount of throttle as a bar in the same icon.
I can do that or I can make a small floating window that you can put anywhere on the screen.

Why not try both as a test run and see how people like it?

This I can't reproduce. I have TThrottle running on a 8 processor system with 2 Gpu's, so that's 10 programs/processes running.
What crashes; TThrottle or a program? Can you give me more details about what happens.

TThrottle crashes. Whenever there are more than 6 processes being monitored at any given moment, TThrottle will crash, and Windows will shut it down. If I were to try opening the program again, it will crash, and if I turn Auto-Active on or off, it will crash.

I can't reproduce this, can you tell me exactly what you did to let TThrottle crash.

All I did was turn on Auto-Active with no value present for Set Core. I had just downloaded the program, and I was clicking things without having read the manual, and I ended up crashing the program with my first click by clicking on Auto Active.

By the way, another issue I found is in the manual. Under the information for the Expert tab, there's no information regarding Tjunction temperature. Also, on the front page of efmer.eu, there is no real way to find this page. At least, no real way that I could find.

I can assist with the Spanish translation. I'm not a native speaker, but my family speaks some Spanish at home, and I have taken classes for a few years.

Actually I was only using the astropulse task as an example of a larger problem. I run BOINC in the background 24/7 and virus scans, disk defrags, internet explorer, and other tasks can push the temp accross the line even if boink programs are throttled back.
What I was asking for was a way to cut back on ANY high usage process if the temp got into the danger zone. This would be valuable for more than BOINC users.

I think this would be a great feature, as it would help me out as well.

If this is done though, it would be a good idea to add a "whitelist" for processes such as media players or web browsers that you want to exclude from the auto-detection feature.

I don't know much about hardware, but I can imagine that this is very machine-specific. Speedfan, a temperature monitor and fan regulator, allows the user to import configurations that are specific to that model of motherboard. Whether or not there is a more coarse-grained approach, I don't know.

Let me start off this thread with a few things:

I am a very new user of TThrottle running a 64-bit Vista laptop with an AMD dual-core Turion processor, and I am happy with this program as a whole. It has so far been reliable and helpful. However, there are a few things that I would like to suggest.

• An easy way to add TThrottle to system startup, preferably as a service so that you don't have to login to run the program.
• A check for whether or not a value for "Set Core" is present when Auto-Active is clicked (gave me an exception when there was no value present)
• An auto-conversion for "Set Core" when "View degrees in Fahrenheit" is changed. This would help to keep an inattentive user from allowing their system to heat up when the maximum temperature goes from 170F to 170C
• Whenever TThrottle tries to monitor more than 6 processes at once, it crashes. Given that I have Folding@Home running alongside BOINC alongside P2P clients, I would like to be able to throttle more than 6 processes.

Aside from a few bugs to stamp out, this program is pretty solid. Keep up the good work!