this sounds like it will do the trick ... thanks.
Hopefully Poser will work under the clean conditions. Will give it a try and see what happens.

The virus thing...yes, it could be a bit risky, but everything is scanned going in, scanned after install, etc, so it should be ok as long as nothing is installed while the av is inactive. I will pull the cable from the internet as well prior to rebooting.

 

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Personally, I'd be wary of leaving AV off. Unless it's a real dog, you probably aren't going to gain a significant amount of memory/CPU. If you're only working with Poser, I suppose it would be OK but be careful about running/installing anything you may have downloaded in the past, that could be nasty.

 

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