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Also, look at the SETI@home preferences -- make sure that
you check the radio button for data processed only when screen saver is
active or window is frontmost.

That way, you only use the resources when the screen saver is active.
The icon will still show in the taskbar, but the program is not using (many)
cycles at that point.

Bryan


Bryan Jarvis wrote in message ...
>Shawn --
>
>The settings are not to invoke the screen saver at 0 minutes, but you
>can set the screen saver's properties such that it blanks the screen
>0 (or whatever number) of minutes after it starts.
>
>In other words, if you have the settings for your screen saver to activate
>after 15 minutes of inactivity at the keyboard / mouse, you can, in
addition
>tell the screen saver to go to a blank screen  n minutes  after
>'activation.'
>
>Click on the settings button in the screen saver tab of the display
>properties
>dialog box.  (easiest way to get there is to right-click somewhere on your
>blank desktop).
>
>This screen blanking does save a tremendous amount of processing time!
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>Bryan
>
>S.D.C. wrote in message <3771fb17.120218034@news.magmacom.com>...
>>Well, on my workstations I wouldn't want to set the screen saver to 0
>>mins.  That's not the problem anyway.  As I stated, if there was some
>>way to make this program automatically start and stop are a particular
>>time (*without* 3rd party software), I'd run it on many more systems.
>>I have a number of servers that do nothing during the night.
>>
>>It is interesting that Win98 is much faster and Win NT workstations
>>are faster than Win NT servers (both with about same workload).
>>
>>I also placed the SETI@HOME on a HP Vectra VL (P133) w/Win95 32mb RAM.
>>This system has been running for 45 hours and 28 minutes and has only
>>reached 49% completion.  That's why I question whether or not the
>>software is optimized as much as it could be?   I'd like to experiment
>>with how much more time is required to render the pretty graphics.
>>
>>Shawn
>>
>>
>>"Aninoquisi" <star@watcher.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>Shawn,
>>>Make sure you have the S@H preferences set to run only during the screen
>>>saver mode, then set the screen saver settings, to blank the screen after
>0
>>>mins. This is about all you can do to speed up the program. Some have
>>>reported that modifying the system.ini file's vcache helps, but I've seen
>no
>>>improvement by doing so. It may depend on the platform being used, or the
>>>amount of background programs running.
>>>Jim
>>>S.D.C. <gempac@hotmaildeletethis.com> wrote in message
>>>news:37713a2f.70843597@news.magmacom.com...
>>>> <snip>
>>>> This seems quite slow and I wondering if this software has been
>>>> optimized.  I could dedicate about 15 systems to this project if this
>>>> software had a start/stop time capabilities.
>>>>
>>>> Shawn
>>>
>>>
>>
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>Shawn D. Connelly, (the ubiquitous) Network Engineer (CNE, MCSE)
>>Dipix Technologies Inc. email: sconnell at dipix.com
>>
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