I have installed Boinc for Seti on my office computer which runs on WinXP, but when it runs it comes up with the following: "Secure Windows Desktop Detected" and tells me that this configuration cannot be used yet. Can somebody explain what this means and if there is a way I can get round it? I used to use the Seti Classic with no problems.

This message does not mean that BOINC is not working. For some reason, the screensaver graphics do not work when you have password protection enabled. BOINC still runs in the background and if you disable the password protection in the control panels, then activate the screensaver, you will see the graphics.

I'm not sure why the graphics don't work with a password enabled, but I'm searching the website to determine when that will be 'fixed'. I'd like to see the graphics, if for nothing else than to promote the program. (Graphics always get people interested.) But I need the password protection at work. Rest assured that the program still crunches numbers, you just don't get the eye candy.

Marc

A while back, there was a note saying this was a known problem, but who knows when it will be fixed. In the mean time, I'm running BOINC in the background (as the previous poster suggested) and using another low-processor-load locking screensaver. Yes, not as eye catching as graphics, but with the Classic version I kept those turned off most of the time to reduce the unnecessary load on the processor, anyway.