Folding Forum

Why is it that when I run F@H (the uniprocessor client, GPU client, and SMP client), the application doesn't actually "show up"? Like, it's running, you can tell in the Task Manager that CPU time is being allocated to it, and the FAHlog reports that it's running perfectly fine, but for the SMP client the command prompt window doesn't show up and the systray icons don't come up for the GPU and CPU clients. Can someone tell me why it's like this?

You probably have started the scheduled task under a different user account. If you want to monitor the progress of these tasks, I suggest you install one of the 3rd party monitoring tools such as FahMon.

Much like a service, scheduled tasks will start without you being logged on, so the task cannot assume there's a screen that the client should use to display that it's running.

Most likely the task was created when logged in as Administrator, and then runs as the Administrator user. However, if you log in as a different user, you won't see the programs that run as Administrator.

I use exactly that trick to keep fah out of sight, out of mind.

Yeah, I use Fahspy to monitor my clients (I hate Fahmon, it always freezes and seems really awkward to use), but I was just wondering why. And I've put the clients on under my account, but it's scheduled to run on system startup, not logon. So that may be the reason for it?