I love vue, and I have a smaller windows system than you do, but I NEVER "render to disk" after having read of many problems in doing this, and I do not stop a render and then try to resume. If Vue has RED numbers down in the lower right and I know the scene contents are getting "heavy" I do save often (I am able to save to the same file name, it creates a .bak file of the previous and saves it new for me) and I use only vue 4.01 patch... I have heard how glitchy XP HOME is, but that XP PRO is the fix for it... (costs a lot though).. I use win98se still. I remember some folks saying there is no finished picture when the render is done or hangs, but I think it ended up in one of vue's folders when that happened, so it was there anyway... I do hope you can figure out what is going on.. I don't think you would be so angry if you did not want to use Vue so much... It IS worth the effort to try to figure out things.. OH and having small partitions on a hard drive is bad stuff.. it limits the swap file of windows... I learned the hard way NOT to divide up my large hard drives.. For safe keeping I will make an archive folder, and burn the things I want to keep to CD as soon as there is enough. XP is not fun, the home version, anyway.. I go nuts trying to help my friend FIND things, find ways to control her settings.. all those nice friendly things are now hidden in xp home.. microsoft made a BAD mistake with this stupid version and had to fix it in pro... (or was that on purpose to force people to 'upgrade' to pro?? grrrrr!) Lyne

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!