it is slow and unresponsive even while trying to move windows, pose, etc etc. Today i noticed the virus scanner ball was twirling away...that's why I asked if it was going to the net a lot or something.

I don;t do much else when its rendering, as I have an antique system which can only do one thing at a time pretty much.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854