i was recently running windows vista on my computer to see how boinc would work with it...the memory management was pretty decent compared to what i've seen xp do. anyways i reformatted my computer back to windows xp but forgot to detach from the project before i did. and now i've got two computers listed that are really the same computer but the vista computer doesn't exist anymore because now it's the xp computer. how do i remove the vista machine from my list of computers? is it possible to do that from this site?

Hi Jameson,

you might try a merge. Go to your account, click "view" beside the item "computers on this account" and select one of the machines you want to merge into one. Scroll down to the bottom and try "merge this computer".

If BOINC sees a machine that can be merged with the one you selected, it will be listed. You can select it and then click "Merge hosts". The newer of both machines will be the one to "survive", the other one is deleted.

If BOINC does not list another machine, you just see "select all" and "unselect all" links and the button, but no clickable PC. Call again or go directly to the Moderators COntact Point Thread and ask for assistance. It usually is a good point to get help on how to do things or at least a reason why a certain action may not be possible.

Regards,

Christoph

Hi Jameson,

you might try a merge. Go to your account, click "view" beside the item "computers on this account" and select one of the machines you want to merge into one. Scroll down to the bottom and try "merge this computer".

If BOINC sees a machine that can be merged with the one you selected, it will be listed. You can select it and then click "Merge hosts". The newer of both machines will be the one to "survive", the other one is deleted.

If BOINC does not list another machine, you just see "select all" and "unselect all" links and the button, but no clickable PC. Call again or go directly to the Moderators COntact Point Thread and ask for assistance. It usually is a good point to get help on how to do things or at least a reason why a certain action may not be possible.

Regards,

Christoph

If you do not have any hosts to merge you will be able to delete the old host eventually. It will take some time though, all workunits associated with that host must be finished and removed from the server.

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