I think the CD drive is bad.  Going to swap it out...  Also had to do a ton of Windows updates, so maybe that was the cause of the mouse problems?   Don't know - that has not happened again.  Re-installed the RenderCow but now only have it run on command.  So far one test render went through fine.  Have a few other weird thing to solve - I turned on file sharing for the folders where Vue saves the scenes in My Pictures and in the My Documents.  Now when I try to open a scene on my computer, it can't seem to find them in the recent files list.  I have to browse to the file... 

Will keep testing!  New computers are sooo much fun!

Peggy

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