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Fred,

Thanks for all your hard work and devotion to helping Science!

Suggest you add a notification (popup / sound) when all running tasks which have been Suspended at Checkpoint, reach the checkpoint.
Many times when I need to update BOINC or BoincTasks or reboot my PC, I set running tasks to Suspend at Checkpoint and wait until they are suspended. I the mean time, I do something else and if I don't know the task is finally suspended then idle CPU time goes to waste. Most projects are not an issue, but Mapping Cancer Markers and the Microbiome Immunity projects could take an hour to reach a checkpoint on my PC.

Thanks in advance, Thinkfast

If I'm using BoincTasks to manage BOINC, do these need to be in Windows Registry startup (HKLM:Run)?

• BOINCMgr.exe
• BOINCTray.exe

I suspect these were are added by the BOINC installer.

WXPSP3 & BOINC 7.4.27
I have been running BoincTasks 1.49 for long time because every time I try to upgrade I run into a serious issue. The first time I tried to install 1.58 and I believe I had data issues. I has been so long, I really don't remember. This time I tried to install 1.66 and after it was complete, it launched BoincTasks, the window was displayed as usual, but the title had BoincTasks (Not responding). It looked like it was trying to access the Internet (transmit), but there was no response. Could be the firewall, but I would think the firewall would display a message. I waited about a minute and then opened Task manager and killed it. I noticed in the process tab that boictasks was still running and tried to end it, but it wouldn't end. So I had to restart the computer and I wasn't happy. Unfortunately, I read the forum post that tells where to find the crash file after I restored everything from backup. BoincTasks 1.49 is running fine again. Are there and special ports I need to open on my router since BoincTasks 1.49? Is it WXP? What did you do differently in the next release?