OK I am not sure what is wrong here. At this point when I tried to start Poser it simply gives a startup screen and then waits a minute or two and goes away without an error message or anything. Now I have been playing with the Daz Studio mostly because it seemed simpler. But after some good advice here I have gotten A LOT of tutorials to read. And I have been printing them out and trying to familiarize, hell IMMERSE myself in the Poser language and controls. Could I have over burdened my Runtime folder? I HAVE gone on what amounts to pillaging sprees at various freebie sites. If it looked like it might come in handy or made me think of a use I downloaded it. I have not installed everything but quite a bit. My C: drive is down to 11 gigs free and there had been 50. Since this is where Windows resides I wonder if I need to try and clear off some space. Also if you are using Poser 5 are there any files you can delete that are only used by earlier versions of the program? Any assistance appreciated. Cheers, RWB64

Do you have a second hard drive in your system for all of your saved stuff?

Ok I didn't think it would be a space problem even though I free up a bunch of space. Still no luck. Went into the Poser 5 files and found at the head a folder that HAD NO NAME. I didn't think windows would allow this. Furthermore, it could not be moved, named, or deleted. Inside of it was a runtime folder with accompanying sub folders that all looked OK. I ran a viral check and came up with nothing. My fix. Reinstall Poser to a new place on the same drive. Barebones it opened fine. Added my runtime folder. Opened fine. Copied anything else except the mystery folder, opens fine. Now I just have to figure how to get the damned empty, unnamed,, unnamable, undeletable, unmovable folder off of my computer. Cheers, RWB64

If you emptied it then you should be able to delete it. (Runtime folders have alot of info in them, a little hard to delet, if you don't need that information or have a backup copy of it,then try this...) Go inside of that folder and inside of that Runtime folder; now start deleting from here folder by folder. (It's just to much info to remove at one time.) "I've been there too"

Get this. I HAVE emptied the folder. There is NO visible info inside the nameless, immovable folder. The info that was under Runtime within the folder was good. It installed to the new copy of Poser I installed. The new copy of Poser runs fine so far. I am just left with a mostly empty Poser 5 folder(the one that wouldn't work), and a weird, empty, nameless, immovable, undeletable folder within it. As I said I ran viral scans upon it when it was full and it shows up clean. I have never heard of such a thing. I may give a friend in IT a call this weekend...

That always works. (IT) Hope thing go well.