[ken in texas]

My personal opinion so far is that running it as an icon in the system tray is just fine. Running as a service might start it a few seconds earlier when you boot the machine, but even in the systray, it consumes every available CPU cycle when nothing else is running. The other modes might get you a few more seconds of processing per day... it's not worth it. This goes the same for the console version (unless you have a multi-CPU machine, then you want to run two copies of the console.)

What consumes cycles needlessly is running it as a screen-saver or repeatedly clicking on the "display" option so you can watch it draw the proteins that are being folded. I have my screen saver set to "blank-screen".

Other's opinions may differ from mine, but I don't think it's worth switching to a different mode.

[Clara Lou]

Thanks for your replies and the information. I'll leave my setup the way it is. I do like to check my progress now and then, but I'll keep that to a minimum.