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How to set up the console version:
1) remove the shortcut in the startup menu (start > all programs > startup)
2) DL the console version for windows on teh F@H website.
3) Place the exe in the Folding@Home folder in your program files
4) Create a shortcut for it on your desktop
5) right click the shortcut and select "properties"
Add the command line to the shortcut as pictured -local -config
6) run the shortcut and read the options. Plain enter leaves the selection as default. It will ask you if you want to run it as a service. Type "yes" and hit enter without the quotes.
once done, it will run. The service change will take affect the next time you boot.
7) Go back to the properties of the shortcut and remove the -config switch.
Keep the shortcut just incase you ever decide to turn off the console and want to restart it without rebooting.
from that point forward it will just run. Pretty cool.
If you have a hyperthreaded machine then you want to add some steps.
1) make another folder in your program files called folding@home2
2) copy, not drag and drop, all of the contents from the first one (Including the console you just added) to the new one.
3) create another shortcut for the 2nd version linking to the console's exe in the 2nd folder.
4) use the -local and -config switch on this one and run it
5) when it asks if you want to modify the advanced options type yes and hit enter.
6) Tell this one to run as a service too
7) tell this one to use "2" for machine id, it will be set to "1"
once running edit the shortcut removing the -config switch.now you can run two instances and it will use all of the CPU.
If you have a hyperthreaded machine then you want to add some steps.
1) make another folder in your program files called folding@home2
2) copy, not drag and drop, all of the contents from the first one (Including the console you just added) to the new one.
3) create another shortcut for the 2nd version linking to the console's exe in the 2nd folder.
4) use the -local and -config switch on this one and run it
5) when it asks if you want to modify the advanced options type yes and hit enter.
6) Tell this one to run as a service too
7) tell this one to use "2" for machine id, it will be set to "1"
once running edit the shortcut removing the -config switch.now you can run two instances and it will use all of the CPU.
Tweaks
Add -advmethods -forceasm to the command line and answer yes to the large work units in the config to get larger projects with bonus points and to use the highly optimized version of the core.
