hiya all! .. i do not use the forums a lot, a silent cruncher i suppose i am, but if possible i would like to aquire some advice?!

I made a new machine, amd athlon x2 5000+ black edition, 2gb dd2 duel core 800mhz, sata2 hd ect...so of course i want to donate as many spare cycles as possible on my machine...
I have only the 32 bit version of vista ultimate, which is ok for me but im still a little newb on vista, and it has one function i really do not get along with

Windows defender, the software explorer part, BOINC is automatically blocked and need to "run blocked software" option upon every boot of my machine, i have searched around win defender and the software manager section of it, and, i LOATH this *big brother* type method of the software , it is my machine why am i unable to set BOINC to be non blocked/allowed lol! How do you do this, there seems to be no option anywhere in win defender to allow this software to run without any ofthis "run blocked software"

any help will be gladly appreciated *nice grin*

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1 x Intel Q6600 SLACR .....at the moment

hiya all! .. i do not use the forums a lot, a silent cruncher i suppose i am, but if possible i would like to aquire some advice?!

I made a new machine, amd athlon x2 5000+ black edition, 2gb dd2 duel core 800mhz, sata2 hd ect...so of course i want to donate as many spare cycles as possible on my machine...
I have only the 32 bit version of vista ultimate, which is ok for me but im still a little newb on vista, and it has one function i really do not get along with

Windows defender, the software explorer part, BOINC is automatically blocked and need to "run blocked software" option upon every boot of my machine, i have searched around win defender and the software manager section of it, and, i LOATH this *big brother* type method of the software , it is my machine why am i unable to set BOINC to be non blocked/allowed lol! How do you do this, there seems to be no option anywhere in win defender to allow this software to run without any ofthis "run blocked software"

any help will be gladly appreciated *nice grin*

i have been to the MS site, it tells me to "allways allow this software" the option does not exist neither does the menu or tab it tells me to use, very frustrating, im sorry everyone but i can no longer donate my cycles willingly because the big MS brother deems it so and i seem not to have the authority upon my own machine to do as i wish
if only i could run xp on this machine, and yes i have been to every source of any menu to do with anything to do with it ..lol

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1 x Intel Q6600 SLACR .....at the moment

I do not have Vista now, but have had it before, and once shared your frustration. I don't think the blocking is being done by defender, hence why you can't find an option for it. But rather by another sub-program of the OS. It is called user control or something along those lines and if you do a search on windows help i'm sure you can find it. I think the whole thing can be turned off so you don't get those silly nuiscance "Did you mean to press this button" or "I can't believe you just said that to me!" messages.

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G'day Karl.

You could have a look at this, a few people have had the same problem.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=47453

Hope it helps.

pete.

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thank you all, i will look around , and thank you to the admin / mod for moving my post lol, i posted it...and then looked around the forum and noticed a more appropriate place to put my question! as you can see i dont post often at all and my knowledge of the structure of the forums is very small, all i know is folding protein structures may help in the finding of ... ways in which we can maybe prevent / cure some very nasty ailments , and it costs me £0 , and also means my machine is no longer wasting cycles, so its a 100% win win situation

Curiosity killed the cat they say, but also this curiosity made the cat one of the most adept hunters on the planet.... :)

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1 x Intel Q6600 SLACR .....at the moment