I just got Poser 7, installed it, and updated to SR 2. I started it up and entered the serial number, and then the main screen opened just fine. I selected the figure that's in the default scene and pressed Delete. The confirmation window came up, and I clicked OK (or Yes, or Accept, or whatever it says), and the application hung up on the "working" cursor. I let it sit for 15 minutes, and it never released from the hang. I ended up force quitting.

I'm running Vista on a very new machine, with new hardware, updated video card drivers, and 4GB of RAM. Anyone else having problems like this? Since I just bought the program, I figured it would be nice to be able to use it. ;-)

Thanks for any hints!

You might try shift + delete, to bypass the undo feature...

I was just in contact with EF support about a similar problem about lags in selecting, rotating cameras, body parts, props etc and the lag in response by P7 SR2.
www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php

LaralynMcW you are not alone! I have this very same problem way back in SR1 and I'm also running Vista. The program hangs most of the time when there's a pop-up window asking you to confirm on saving, overwriting and deleting files, and when I clicked on the button the program freezes and that's it.

Additionally the program also sometimes freezes up during rendering, I thought that might be the problem with object's text and trans mapping and started tweaking around but to no avail, and after installing SR2 the problem is still there!!

I am currently using a Pentium Dual-Core (T2060 CPU) notebook PC with 2 Gb RAM, nVIDIA GeForce Go 7300 graphics chip with 256 Mb shared VRAM.

I get the delete problem. However if you do something first, like rotate a camera for example, then delete works fine. Delete seems to hang if it is the first action at start up.

Also since going to SP2 I get crashes reverting to previous save and sometimes on exiting the app. This makes SP2 seem a bit unstable.

Make sure your partition with the temp folder has lots of uncompressed free space. This has happened to me at times, and disappeared when I changed the temp folder to a partition with lots of free space.
Could be something else though

If you're running Poser under Vista with an NVIDIA chipset, please go to NVIDIA's website and download the latest driver. The issue with Poser freezing when showing modal dialogs (such as render progress or delete confirmation) is known and resolved by the latest drivers.

Same here: My Poser crashed when I tried to delete a figure. After installing the new drivers from nvidia, the problem vanishes.