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So Ive been looking into some problems I've been having with my computer here's the specs.

I have:
Core i7 920 CPU 2.6GHz
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit 7600
Radeon 5870 Graphics card

And it has been running like crap, crashing, so on and so forth. So I look around on my system and lo and behold! The problem traces to FahCore_78.exe so realizing this I decided id uninstall it and reboot. I did so and guess what? It's back again. So i kill it and delete the program folder that I left behind previously and again its back. Don't get me wrong I love the idea of helping with cancer but using an unstable, sneaky, and dangerous program is not exactly my idea of helpful. So I want it gone I want it gone and I don't want to see it again fortunately my ps3 seems to run fine with it so that can stay but I do not want this on my computer anymore I don't know why this process keeps restarting and keeps recreating itself but I need help in making it disappear.

You must have it installed as a service. Go to admin tools and stop the service then delete the files.

Did you intentionally install the folding@home client by downloading it from the website http://folding.stanford.edu or did you install some unauthorized trojan from another site that surreptitiously installed it without your permission?

Folding at home is a reputable research program run by Stanford University, but they can't be responsible for someone who redistributes their client illegally. (The EULA specifies that you MUST download the client from an authorized site.)

If you have installed one of those unauthorized trojans, we'd be happy to help you remove it. Please locate a file called FAHlog.txt and post the first couple of pages. Also, where did you find that file, and what else was in the same directory?

It was from the folding@home homepage but it still was a nightmare to work with and don't even get me started on trying to get rid of it.

0 out of 5 for user friendlyness
0 out of 5 for functionality
0 out of 5 for tormenting my computer
5 out of 5 for forum help
5 out of 5 for a good purpose

10/25 = 40% F

Is this a computer you built yourself? If it is, there is always the possibility that you have bad RAM. Folding@home and other CPU-heavy programs have been known to reveal hardware problems in hardware previously thought stable. Try running a few passes of memtest86+ over your RAM (you can get it at http://www.memtest.org/) and see if it checks out completely. If memtest86+ reveals errors, then that could be causing your problem, not Folding@home.

Otherwise, as John_Weatherman said above, you might be running as a service. Which version of Folding@home did you download, the GUI version or the console version?

Well I hate to be a necromancer but I'm back to give it another go. Firstly in response to fred (From several months ago again sorry for the necromancy). I did build it myself, and I still have the same build and my hardware passes all of the tests I give it. I have made some changes since then but they're rather insignificant. My core i7 920 is now running at 3.8Ghz and I will be upgrading to a core i7 980X soon.

A long with that I'd like to get back to installing the client. However, when I try to go to the "High performance windows clients" page on this http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Download#ntoc5

It gives me a 404 error.

I just tried and got there fine.

For how long have these "instabilities" occurred? It would help us if you could be more specific:
Slow system responsiveness
Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD)
High CPU Usage
High RAM Usage
...
If you had installed the Client, why didn't you simple uninstalled it rather than deleting FahCore_78? Please post your FAHlog as bruce stated and use the Code button so that:

Clearly the computer does not pass every test you throw at it as it fails when running Folding - something known to be very hard on hardware.

Glad to hear you want to keep Folding.
For future reference in Windows 7 to locate a file running as a process:

1. Start Task Manager
2. Find process you want to get rid of
3. Right click on it, select "Open File Location"

Once you are there, as others have said, do not simply delete the file. If you installed it as a service it must be uninstalled:

4. Shut down the service from Windows Management Console
5. Configure Folding by starting it from a shortcut with the "-configonly" flag set
6. Select "Yes" to change advanced options
7. Configure it to start manually, uninstalling it as a service from that directory

If you got the program from Stanford's site that should be the end of it. You can now delete the file, and folder it's in.
Also, adding and removing services requires Admin level privileges in Windows, removing it will not work without them.
Best of Luck

It's working well now it's actually finishing WU's instead of just locking my system up