Change to Standard Client Now - Step by Step

[meshmesh]

This is for everyone:

If you are running the optimized BOINC client 5.5.0, you need to change to the standard BOINC 5.4.9 client NOW.

If you have a couple of machines, follow these manual steps:
1)Stop BOINC service by going to Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Services
Right click on Boinc services and select Stop.

2) make a backup copy of the two optimized Boinc client files Boinc.exe and Boinc.dll in a safe place in case you nead them

3)Extract the four executable Boinc standard 5.4.9 files from this zip file into the Boinc directory (thanks itznfb).

4)Restart BOINC service by going to Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative tools -> Services
Right click on Boinc service and select Start.

Boinc will run the benchmarks and continue with it's tasks.

Done.

If you have a large number of machines check out this script (thanks RSmura).

If you have a few machines, and don't understand/want to use/need the script you can wip up a simple batch file on a flash drive and go around running it per machine. Something like this (for example):


REM ====Roll back to Standard Boinc ======
REM Batch file to run from flash drive
REM Put the four standard files in the root of the flash drive first
REM ===============================

REM stop boinc service
net stop boinc

REM wait 10 seconds by pinging a non existant address, just in case
ping -n 2 -w 5000 192.168.1.234

REM rename the optimized files
rename "c:\Program Files\Boinc\Boinc.exe" Boinc_op.exe
rename "c:\Program Files\Boinc\Boinc.dll" Boinc_op.dll

REM copy the four files from the flash drive to boinc directory
copy Boinc.exe "c:\Program Files\Boinc\Boinc.exe" /y
copy Boinc.dll "c:\Program Files\Boinc\Boinc.dll" /y
copy Boincmgr.exe "c:\Program Files\Boinc\Boincmgr.exe" /y
copy Boinccmd.exe "c:\Program Files\Boinc\Boinccmd.exe" /y

REM restart boinc service
net start boinc

REM ====Done==============

Make the flash drive your current directory
Run the batch file on each machine from the flash drive
Edit as needed.

You can always roll back to optimized (renamed) files and using another similar batch file.
You get the idea.

Edit 18 Sep: Reverted back to 5.4.9 due to 5.4.11 problems.