Actually now that I think about it my spyware doctor is running which could definitely be the problem because it eats CPU power (though the live scan and everything is off, no intelliguard, etc.) the only problem is the stupid program always says you have to restart the computer to completely shut it down (which usually doesn't shut it down, plus now when I am hitting exit it's not doing anything). So unless I restart and lose the 18 hours...I'm not sure though why it generally doesn't even work when I restart before I had to uninstall it I'll have to call the company I can't be uninstalling every time I run Poser lol.

Now the new weird thing - going on 18 hours. The process bar was gone, it looked like it was finished, but the file menu is all grayed out. I read on the forums there could be a dialog box or whatever still open but I couldn't get it to do anything (btw does anyone know the shortcut for export image?) so I moved the render around on the screen and screen captured parts of it at a time pasting it in Photoshop (I figured I could at least do it that way and piece it together in PS, it would just take forever) and realized the bottom of the render wasn't there so it didn't finish. So I wanted to at least finish capturing it so I could maybe try doing an area render later of the bottom part. But as I moved it back to the beginning spot again on the left I saw there was more picture, so it's still rendering! But there is no progress bar...

I should try an area render though I remember before to go faster on my laptop I would area render parts and then paste it together because I could get part of it to render at least at a time. I just hope that if I save the file and close out it saves the render in the preview to work on later seems like sometimes it doesn't do that.

So now I guess I just wait and if it's not done in a couple hours I'll leave it for the morning and hope that the computer doesn't shut down in the middle of the night or I will lose all of the progress, including the partial render since I can't save the file...

SOLO: As for switching it to sree3d, how do I do that and what will it tell me?

Thanks