If you are running Poser 5, then try this; create a runtime folder called 'null runtime', do not install any content in it at all, and link it into P5. Get into the habit of changing to that null runtime every time you shut down. Poser -does- read all the active libary content on start up, so if you have it read empty libraries, it starts very quickly. Then just change to the runtime you want.

For P4, you can pull this same trick if you use P-Booost by Hogwarden. You just create empty folders in each library category, mark it so you know it is empty, and switch to those libraries before you start Poser (you only really -need- to do this for the Character, Pose, and Prop libaries. The others simply do not have enough in them to be a drag). The nice thing about P-Booost is that you can change those active libraries while Poser is not running; the only caveat here is to make sure those empty libraries aren't selected when you install new content. P-Booost directs content installation to the active libraries, so you could get things into places you didn't want them... (oops. You use a Mac; never mind about the P-Booost trick...)

Message edited on: 07/13/2004 09:30