You don't have to restart your machine to kill Poser. Here's how: 1) Open Task Manager: hit Ctrl-Alt-Del or right-click the Taskbar and select Task Manager. 2) Click on the "Applications" tab. 3) Click on Poser and click the "End Task" button. Normally this works, but if Poser is off doing it's thing, then it may just sit there. If that happens, do this: 4) Click on the "Processes" tab. 5) Look for "poser.exe" 5a) If you can't see it, click on the CPU column to sort by CPU usage: Poser is probably the highest. 6) Click on poser.exe and click the "End Process" button. 7) Windows will complain about how this is bad and you shouldn't interrupt a program, yadda, yadda, yadda. Click "yes" or "ok" or "do it anyway" and Poser will die immediately. Then, re-open Poser and go about your business. :)