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IB your code is fine.
Or we all got it wrong

[PCZ]

Think there might be a bit of a problem with the zip file.
WinZip says it is not in zip 2.0 format when extracting the files.

[IronBits]

Try again. Forgot I'm using the latest version of WinZip that uses a new compression.

[IronBits]

I downloaded, extracted, ran Install_LLRnet.bat, then ran the Start_LLRnet_8_64bit.bat and it took right off like it should.
I didn't have to edit the llr-clientconfig.txt file because it has my name in the username = line

Good to go.

[IronBits]

I found something very interesting this evening.
Under Vista 64bit, If llr-clientconfig.txt has
Once = 1
the client will keep on getting more work.

How did I find out about this?

I wrote a vbscript that will flip
--Once = 1 to
Once = 1
and vice versa

[PCZ]

once = 1

Little o ?

[IronBits]

Duh! That worked.

I wrote a vbscript that runs in Windows that will toggle that "once = 1" flag like so

once = 1 to --once = 1
and
--once = 1 to once = 1

It expects multi-core client setups with the following folder structure
Example:
C:\dcprojects\llrnet (can be anywhere) This is where the vbscript goes - I called it Toggle_Work.vbs
Inside that directory, it expects to see the following directory names, all starting with llrnet - for multi-core setups.
llrnet1
llrnet2
llrnet3
...
llrnet8

It will edit each llr-clientconfig.txt in each directory that starts with LLRNET (case not sensitive)

If you used some other directory name, change the code where it shows LLRNET to whatever you used
In the below code, look for: strFolder = objShell.CurrentDirectory & "\LLRNET" & count & "\"
or, rename your directories

If you have more than 8 cores, say 16, look in the code for
For count = 1 to 8
and change it to
For count = 1 to 16

Give it a go and let me know what you think.

Because the forum 'code' tag screws stuff up, I'll place the vbscript code in php tags

FileName: Toggle_Work.vbs

'Option Explicit
Const ForReading = 1
Const ForWriting = 2

Dim objShell, objFSO, objFile, FileName, count, strFolder, strLine, strNewText, strFlag
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
FileName     = "llr-clientconfig.txt"

pcengine = LCase(Mid(WScript.FullName, InstrRev(WScript.FullName,"\")+1))
If Not pcengine="cscript.exe" Then
    Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
    WshShell.Run "CSCRIPT.EXE """ & WScript.ScriptFullName & """"
    WScript.Quit(1)
End If

WScript.Echo vbCrLf

On Error Resume Next
For count = 1 to 8
    strFolder = objShell.CurrentDirectory & "\LLRNET" & count & "\"
    Set objFSO = createobject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
    If objFSO.FolderExists(strFolder) then
        Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFolder & FileName, ForReading)
        Do Until objFile.AtEndOfStream
            strLine = Trim(objFile.ReadLine)
            If InStr(1, strLine, "once", 1) Then
                If strFlag = "" Then
                    strLine = Replace(strLine, " ", "")
                    If Left(strLine, 2) = "--" Then
                        strLine = "once = 1"
                        strFlag = "once = 1"
                    Else
                        strLine = "--once = 1"
                        strFlag = "--once = 1"
                    End If
                Else
                    strLine = strFlag
                End If
            Else
            End If
            strNewText = strNewText & strLine & vbCrLf
        Loop
        objFile.Close
        If strNewText = "" Then 
            WScript.Echo "There is a problem with " & FileName & " aborting!"
            Exit For
        End If
        arrLines = Split(strNewText, vbCrLf)
        Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(strFolder & FileName, ForWriting)
        For i = 0 to UBound(arrLines) - 1
            objFile.WriteLine arrLines(i)
        Next
        objFile.Close
        WScript.Echo "llrnet" & count & " changed to " & strFlag
        strFolder = ""
        objFSO = ""
        objFile = ""
        strLine = ""
        strNewText = ""
        arrLines = ""
    Else
    End If
Next
WScript.Echo VbCrLf & "Sleeping for 5 seconds..." & vbCrLf
WScript.Sleep(5000) 

Enjoy