I installed BOINC (Grid Republic) over the weekend and had numerous unexplained issues until I removed the desktop from the startup folder. Bascially what would happen is that any HTTP requests (BOINC, Mozilla, IE,....) would get muddled after BOINC starts, by that I mean that when BOINC starts it would DNS the servers then would send requests to a server for the wrong web page (or for the correct web page on the wrong server). Once BOINC starts up like this it screws up all my HTTP traffic, everything (BOINC, Firefox, IE) starts sending requests to the wrong servers, and I have to reboot.

I'm running Windows XP media center on a dual core Intel.

How internet hosts are addressed is not a function of BOINC. It sounds like your environment has other networking issues.

Are you saying that BOINC, and your internet access, works fine once you removed BOINC from your startup folder and specifically start it manually.

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