I was sat at work today thinking that there are a few untapped folding resources.

As I do some of the techie stuff I have administrative rights to the computers and network and I was wondering if I can set up the client to run in the background on the work machines without the users knowing it's running? If so how??

As I'm always the first in last out I could potentially just log the machines in before going home and leave them folding over night, but I'd like a better solution than that...

Well it can be done, but dont forget folding runs at 100% CPU. The very reason I have not installed it on the 400 pc's I have access to, its not worth the risk unless you know the IT people.

the machines at work are dual processors so I was thinking that they'd run like my machine at home. i.e only 50% CPU and as all anyone does is use word or excel, they aren't likely to notice!

Manny, you can set the max cpu % that the client uses.

To the OP - don't do anything without the knowledge of your IT people. It *will* be found - don't risk your job over it! If you ask and explain what a worthy cause it is, they might be perfectly happy...

also bear in mind that even if run as a service it can be picked up on, and something else that the normal users of the pc's may notice is just how hot the power supply's will get - mine on my desktop chucks out some right heat, and was picked up on by my colleague sat opposite... (just something to bear in mind)

..and i actually work in IT

Do you like working there?

If anyone tried that at my office I would find out , and they would potentially be fired

IT policy breach isn't worth your job.

Even if you're head of IT, if your company IT policy says no unauth software then that'd usually mean from the big cheese!

I don't think my job would be at risk but I decided it's probably not worth it.

Shame though, I could've used the extra few machines to bump my points up. It's going to take me at least 2 years to get in the top 20...

There was talk earlier on in this forum about being able to rename services to appear innocent, and you can obviously set the %% CPU use quite low if need be.

of course, this is contrary to 99.9% of company's IT rules, and you could pay the ultimate price (so to speak)