hah!! tesign, if i did that.... i'd crash my computer and lose my render. geeze, just NOT doing anything on the computer while it renders can make it crash. not only that, but i am forever hitting the escape button. it is essential in rhino. i use it in poser. i use it on the web.... and every time i hit it, vue quits rendering and i gotta resume! ugh :) i had that happen to me, once. i was rendering a huge image in ray dream, and the dumb power save shut down my hard drives, so the thing couldn't render!! after three hours, i come back, and it is still only 10% done! argh! :)