Running Latest BOINC on W7 RC. All good except that the Rosetta Beta screensaver graphics appear to be incompatible with W7 themes. Every time I move the mouse to cancel the screensaver and come back to the desktop, it knocks W7 back into the Windows 7 'Basic' theme. Rosetta Mini seems to be OK. Is there a way of disabling the downloading of tasks associated with Rosetta Beta and preventing it downloading at all?

Thanks

There is no way to disable your computers from getting beta project tasks from your preferences. The screensavers are both almost the same. I have no problem with the screensaver with beta tasks on my windows 7 rc pc. Normally the rollback to the basic theme outlines a graphics card problem.

There is no way to disable your computers from getting beta project tasks from your preferences. The screensavers are both almost the same. I have no problem with the screensaver with beta tasks on my windows 7 rc pc. Normally the rollback to the basic theme outlines a graphics card problem.

No, Windows 7 actually reports that the Rosetta Beta application is incompatible and warns me that it has switched to Windows 7 Basic for that reason.

The only difference between our PC's is that you are running 32-bit windows 7 and I am running 64-bit. Where does it report this?? in the messages tab??

The only difference between our PC's is that you are running 32-bit windows 7 and I am running 64-bit. Where does it report this?? in the messages tab??

I get a small window (Action Centre I think) that pops up as soon as I return to the desktop, by which time W7 has dropped back into Windows 7 Basic. It tells me the specific application that is incompatible with the Aero theme.

I have this problem when running some java applications. It is caused because windows 7 aero uses the 3d rendering capibility of your graphics card. When a program such as rosetta needs to render a 3d image, it uses the same capibility as areo, but the card can't run both at the same time and therefore kills windows aero.

If you are attached to Rosetta Beta, aka RALPH, all you have to do is to detach to not get tasks from it ...

Or am I misunderstanding something here?

Your are misunderstanting. On this project, the main Rosetta@home, you are sent Rosetta Beta tasks as well as Rosetta Mini tasks. It is the beta task that are causing the issue here.