I updated my Preferences and then click update. All work units went into a Activities Suspended status. How do I get them out of that status?

Several things to look at:

1) When BOINC is perfoming the benchmarks (this happens on its forst start and repeats from time to time) it supends all activities during that time. This normally takes some minutes.

2) Look into the menu 'commands'. If the check is near 'suspended' move it to 'run based on preferences'.

3) In tab 'projects' the second button must show 'suspend', NOT 'resume'. The third must show 'No new work', NOT 'allow new work'. These buttons do not reflect the system state, but show what will happen if you press them.

Feel free to return if this doesn't help.

:-)= Greybeard

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All about BOINC: BOINC-Wiki (by Paul D. Buck)

Also take a look on your new preferences. If the preferences says "Do work while computer is in use? no", then all work will be suspended whenever you're using your computer. The projects starts up again when the computer are idle.

How long it has to be idle before it start working again is also a choice in your preferences.

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