Hey
I have tried to run boinc on a laptop and it looks like the above mentioned option doesn't work (yet?)?

Tested on WindowsXP Sp1 with boinc 3.20 and
tested on Debian/GNU Linux Kernel 2.6.7 and boinc 3.18

or did I miss something?

You need to have your preferences updated on your PC. Either by using the "Update" function available in the tab "Projects" or by shutting down the GUI and start it over again.
If a change is made in the preferences, you should be able to see a message in the tab "Messages" saying that your preferences has been updated after you change one of the settings.

Greetings from Belgium.

> You need to have your preferences updated on your PC. Either by using the
> "Update" function available in the tab "Projects" or by shutting down the GUI
> and start it over again.
No change :(
btw: no is the default and I never changed it, so that host surey has the right preferences.

> If a change is made in the preferences, you should be able to see a message in
> the tab "Messages" saying that your preferences has been updated after you
> change one of the settings.
Yepp I know..


Sorry
but that didn't help :(

> No change :(
> btw: no is the default and I never changed it, so that host surey has the
> right preferences.

I found in another thread that this is very probably meanwhile a known issue.

> I found in another thread that this is very probably meanwhile a known issue.

Lol okay ... I didn't search in 'Number crunching' ...

> Lol okay ... I didn't search in 'Number crunching' ...

You can make a very simple search by using the message search.

> You can make a very simple search by using the message search.

Ah! I knew that there has to be such a feature but I never found it (I only looked for it while beeing inside a board)....

Thx ;)

> You need to have your preferences updated on your PC. Either by using the
> "Update" function available in the tab "Projects" or by shutting down the GUI
> and start it over again.
> If a change is made in the preferences, you should be able to see a message in
> the tab "Messages" saying that your preferences has been updated after you
> change one of the settings.
>
> Greetings from Belgium.
>

Got to say, I'm having exactly the same problem on a win 2K installation. I've been through the updating prefs, etc. My laptop knows it's running on batteries. Given the number of comments on this in various threads, perhaps it's a problem.

> > You need to have your preferences updated on your PC. Either by using
> the
> > "Update" function available in the tab "Projects" or by shutting down the
> GUI
> > and start it over again.
> > If a change is made in the preferences, you should be able to see a
> message in
> > the tab "Messages" saying that your preferences has been updated after
> you
> > change one of the settings.
> >
> > Greetings from Belgium.
> >
>
> Got to say, I'm having exactly the same problem on a win 2K installation. I've
> been through the updating prefs, etc. My laptop knows it's running on
> batteries. Given the number of comments on this in various threads, perhaps
> it's a problem.
>
>
There is a know problem where if you any venue specific prefs are defined the suspend type perfs will not work.

John Keck
BOINCing since 2002/12/08

It's not the same problem
I tried to use home work and school
'suspsend by time' and 'while user is working' are working fine.
The only option not working with windows (working with linux since I self compiled it).
So it IS a windows-client problem. (I couldn't test it by self-compiling since I don't have a windows C-Compiler environment working)