How to hide text based F@H

Hessian

Hessian

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I've got the two command prompts style boxes open for each of my cores, but unlike the graphic one, I can't hide the windows, how do I do it? Is there any way to have it running in the background without seeing them?

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If these are standard clients rather than SMP clients you can set them to run as services then when your PC is started they will run in the background without the annoying window - if you've already set them up that way close them with ctrl+c and either restart your PC or run servicse.msc and start the services yourself.

For my SMP clients I use WinBoss Classic - http://www.bobyte.com/WinBoss/index.asp
This lets you hide any window down to an icon in the system tray just by pressing Ctrl + * on it - you can then un-hide the windows by right-clicking on the icon and selecting what you want to see.
 
rich99million said:
For my SMP clients I use WinBoss Classic - http://www.bobyte.com/WinBoss/index.asp
This lets you hide any window down to an icon in the system tray just by pressing Ctrl + * on it - you can then un-hide the windows by right-clicking on the icon and selecting what you want to see.
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Cool. I don't need to hide my Folding from anyone as they're all my own rigs but it's handy for not cluttering up the taskbar. It has a 'Panic' button which is really cool. You click on the 'Panic' button and every window gets hidden instantly :cool:
 
IMHO the best way to do it is to set up the services. It takes 5 minutes but you can then let the service manager stop and start it for you which adds a little bit of extra safety to the procedure. You don't want to accidentally bork your WUs so any measures taken to prevent that would represent a step in the right direction.
 
I had issues with setting the SMP client as a service and lost more WUs doing that than I have the other way. I'm not sure if it's any better now but I've shied away from it so far.
 
Same here, if you run it as a service, the only way it will be visible is when you ctrl+alt+del and view services or CPU usage - been running seti on my parents PC, my sisters and just about everyone else's as well! Its my little price for all the hours of fixing their PC's for them, specially mums - she is definitely the open everything, download everything, install everything demon :mad:
 
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