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CTRL-A to select all doesn't seem to work in any tab.  In particular I often want to select all the downloads to retry.  I know there's a "retry all" but that doesn't seem to get the instruction to all the computers.

I use Boinctasks for 7 windows computers and 3 Android phones, it runs on my main windows computer.  2 days ago all three phones said not connected and have done ever since.  They are connected to my wireless just fine, and have not changed IP address.  They continue to run Boinc and download and upload tasks ok.  I can ping them all from the main windows PC.  I had made no changes to the phones.  I tried restarting all the phones and the PC, but I still cannot connect with Boinctasks.  I've verified they have remote control enabled with the correct password in their Boinc clients (official version 7.18.1).  Any ideas?

I move it, but it doesn't remember it.  I've seen it in other programs too, so it's more likely a Windows bug than a Boinctasks bug.  Windows isn't too good with multiple monitors, especially if you dare to start up the computer with one of the monitors off, then it decides to rearrange absolutely everything.  I've got 6 now....

I'm assuming your program remembers the location using a set of X,Y coordinates.  And Windows is changing those around.

The same thing happens with the main window.  I have it stretched across three monitors, above each other.  When the computer puts the screens to sleep at night, the next day Boinctasks is only on one screen.

A way around this is select one computer or move a bad computer to another group.

I cannot find a way to create groups.  I've read the whole manual!  I now have Boinctasks falling asleep again, but I've pinged all the remote computers and nothing loses any packets, which annoyed it before.  The worst is my mobiles on wireless which do ping up to 300ms often, and sometimes 1000ms.  I want to try the phones in another group to see if that helps.  That will then only block that group from displaying and leave the 7 PCs displayed?

I have 5 monitors (this may be unusual!) - if I open a dialog box in Boinctasks (eg abort tasks), it always opens on the wrong monitor.  I'm not sure how it decides where to put it, but it likes to go onto my primary monitor, even though Boinctasks is on another one (always sat there so I can watch my 10 computers).  Could it please either open in front of the main Boinctasks window, or remember where I put it last?

Thanks!  That worked!  I never thought of overwriting the error message.

Boinctasks lets me edit an app_config.xml, but how do I do this if the file doesn't already exist?  I'm trying to edit it on a phone, and since file access on Android is very restricted, I can't do it manually.  I was hoping Boinctasks could from my Windows PC.

I had it on 3, I've changed it to 2.

I absolutely detest Linux.  What does this WSL do?  Are there native versions of Rosetta/LHC/Cosmology that I could then use?

I don't have a particular "bad computer".  Any one of them could have a delay if it decides to load up several vbox tasks at once, even on an SSD.  So short of having a group for every PC, that isn't going to work.

At some point, Boinctasks decides a computer is not responding and gives it a red lightning bolt, and continues to display the rest.  Can it not just do that as soon as one isn't responding?  Can I set a timeout of 1 second somewhere?

I guess startup must be different and uses one thread to read in all the history to begin with.

Still never found out why the whole program waits for one computer to respond if they're in different threads!  I had to get round it by making them all faster - SSDs/NVMEs and replacement network cables.  A single lost packet and Boinctasks falls asleep.

I can see 47 just now, but it's not using the CPU much when everything is running.  It's during startup it was taking ages, and that had 4.5% CPU usage, which indicates only 1 of 24 cores.  Perhaps the reading of history is only done in one thread?

I have history smart mode on already.

I already have it set to move to long term after only 3 days (as it was taking too long to view it on computers that do 1000s of 30 seconds Milkyway units).

I had remove history set to 365 days as I thought long term wouldn't be touched unless I opened it.  I'll reduce that to 14.

I've never seen it use more than one thread in task manager.

I just went ahead and cleaned out the Boinctasks folder under appdata, removing all the history, logs, etc.  Everything but the actual config.  15 minute startup now 15 seconds!  I wonder if that will speed it up during use aswell.

My Boinctasks has got slower and slower to start up.  I have a fast CPU (Ryzen 9 3900XT), but Boinctasks maxes out a single core for about 10 minutes to start up.  Assuming there's no intention of multithreading the program, can you tell me what it's doing at startup?  Should I clear out history or something?  What does it load up to begin?  It monitors itself, 2 smartphones, and 6 other Windows PCs.

If I have one computer selected and I'm looking at say the tasks it's running, then I go to add a project, it's currently defaulting to the local machine instead of the computer I've selected.  I keep adding projects to the wrong computer.