Thanks, Fixer. I have to admit I actually do like Vista, and to be fair, people were constantly complaining about XP, but nowhere near the awful trouble we all had with Windows 98. You asked me about my computer 'savvy', well I spent my professional graphics career working with Apple Macs - back in the quaint days of the Mac Classic and the huge Apple Mac II. I found Macs very easy to understand, but I've been exclusively using PC's now for seventeen years and I find them extremely complicated - with so much to remember. In hardware and system terms, I'm still a newbie, but I think I'm good at using graphics, office, and DTP software, and by that I mean doin' stuff as opposed to understanding how it works.

However, at the moment I've just bought a quad processor 2.4ghz PC, which is a significant upgrade on my old 1.7 single processor rig, but I'm dissapointed that while everything else goes like a rocket, Poser is still extremely slow, even using four-thread rendering. I don't think even God can speed up Poser render! My main moan about Vista is that it uses up a hell of a lot of RAM. It's using 1.5GB on this machine, with 2.5 to spare, but I do have several minor utilities running. Good news is I can load my scenes quite happily with up to 8 high res Daz characters. I want to stop making freebie models and sell models from now on. I'm pretty depressed at the lack of response I get for all my hard work.

Anyway, many thanks for your help, guys. A Poser newbie wrote to me the other day asking me for starting up advice, and I told him to join Rosity, where I said folk could always (99%) find very friendly and helpful advice.