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Bubbleawsome

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It broke... I stopped it and installed rainmeter, turned it back on and now this.
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been sitting for 30 minutes now. D:
 

Drsignguy

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Yea, something is strange about that. I did the same thing last night when I shut my rigs down for a bit to do some maintenance. I clicked on the taskbar icon and it started as anonymous. So, I shut that off and started the icon save on my desktop and it continued from where it left off when I first shut it down. I then removed the taskbar icon.

You might want to check in the directory and find the startup icon. There are a couple in there so you will have to play a bit to find the correct one. I had to do that a time or two.
 

Bubbleawsome

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I've tried that, same thing. None of the F@H icons do anything, I think it was rainmeter. Now my windows explorer is broken, anytime I try to close a file it crashes. Gah.
 

Bubbleawsome

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Hello, I've fixed my folding, but now I really have 4 different teams I could fold for. So, I folded once for you guys then changed my team and now my F@H is really hating me. It seems that I just can't get any wu's done. *sigh*

EDIT; Well, I have 1wu done for the ror folding team, 6 for you guys and 6 for team 0. lol. That's what happened.
 
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somethingsketchy

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One idea you could try, is to use VMs for your F@H needs. Rather than messing around with the client, while attempting to fix your Rainmeter settings and whatnot...you could try VirtualBox.

What I've done with some of my workstations, for BOINC:

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Build and configure an *nix client VM (usually Ubuntu Server - any version - 64 bit)
3. Install the F@H software + dependancies
4. Plug in your account/team information
5a. (Optionally) grab a snapshot of the VM in this state, so if something FUBARs, you can just go back to the previous state
5b. Initiate a download of some WUs and let the crunching begin.

Key benefit of virtuals, you can configure how many cores/threads you allocate, so you could "self-throttle" your F@H work, without sacrificing performance of your host machine. Also you could continue to run Rainmeter, and not futz around with the settings.
 

Bubbleawsome

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One idea you could try, is to use VMs for your F@H needs. Rather than messing around with the client, while attempting to fix your Rainmeter settings and whatnot...you could try VirtualBox.

What I've done with some of my workstations, for BOINC:

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Build and configure an *nix client VM (usually Ubuntu Server - any version - 64 bit)
3. Install the F@H software + dependancies
4. Plug in your account/team information
5a. (Optionally) grab a snapshot of the VM in this state, so if something FUBARs, you can just go back to the previous state
5b. Initiate a download of some WUs and let the crunching begin.

Key benefit of virtuals, you can configure how many cores/threads you allocate, so you could "self-throttle" your F@H work, without sacrificing performance of your host machine. Also you could continue to run Rainmeter, and not futz around with the settings.
I got rid of rainmeter, it was laggy and wasn't that great. Just shiny.