Seti that plays well with XP?

[cakin]

Which Seti control program (that can later be installed as a service) works well with MS XP?
My brother just purchased the Iwill XP333-R with an XP1800 and I need to hide seti so he doesn't accidentally delete it.
I have about a week before I go and visit his new toy.

BTW...have you ever seen a DVD player cause a video card not to see most of its ram when it boots?
He purchased a 64med nvidia card, some off-brand dvd player that Frys had on sale and every time he boots it with the DVD player in it, the video card messes up and only sees 4 meg?

 

[r0tt3n1]

^^bump^^

 

[medic]

Not sure about installing as a service (I'm sure someone else does) but as far as XP goes, I had no trouble at all running SetiDriver, never a crash.
SetiSpy worked perfectly except about 20% of the time that I tried to start it, it would crash and you just say No to sending the error report to MS and try to restart it. Most of the time it would be fine on the second restart.
This is a well known problem with SetiSpy.

 

[cakin]

I have used setispy for a while, but roelof has determined that setispy and winXP wont play well together.

I guess I'll try setidriver when I get there.

 

[muttley]

I got SETI to CLI to run using http://www.teriba.com/seti.html

Then instead of placing the SetiDriver.exe file in the 'Startup' group, use SetiDriver.exe in Start, programs, acessories, System tools, Scheduled Tasks.
Set the timing to start the program when the computer starts/restarts. I have it on the other computer and it doesn't show and there are 5 users on that computer.

 

[Jani]

SetiStash is one alternative though I don't know how it works on XP

 

[muttley]

I have not used it but I did look at it and it doesn't fail by placing anything into a C:\WINNT C:\WINNT\SYSTEM file that XP doesn't have. It appears to have a GUI interface for setup peramiters and an icon that can be a blank block so less easy to mistake and kill, possibly. However as a service I don't think it will run that way except by the trick above of setting it as a Scheduled Task on startup/restart. IF I didn't mention it above it didn't place an icon on the tray in the above procedure that was with multiple names. If it were one name I don't know

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Bruce