I tried the pvengine.exe in place of explorer.exe as shell. It was a
mistake. Things went wrong.

Bob

Steve <sjl### [at] ndirectcouk> wrote in message
news:37BCAD4C.B9366551@ndirect.co.uk...
> Serious POVers run povengin.exe as their shell and have all that
> silly stuff like explorer as an option on the POV tools menu, you
> know it makes sence.
>
> TonyB wrote:
> >
> > > Boy I keep hearing bad thing over and over with regards to ATI
boards.
> >
> > The board has been nothing but great in the time I've had it. This
is my first
> > problem.
> >
> > > There are no .dll's that would have been replaced by ther ATI
setup file.
> >
> > I hope you're right...
> >
> > > All of Pov's .dlls are local to it's own directory. Make sure
that your
> > > windows settings are correct i.e. color depth and screen
resolution.
> >
> > That hasn't changed a bit.
> >
> > > Other than that it may be a direct conflict with the ATI drivers
and the
> > > Pov software. If all else fails reinstall your previous drivers
and forget
> > > about the updated drivers. Was there a reason for installing
them in the
> > > first place other than they were recommended by the manufacturer
?
> >
> > I only got them because they now include ICD drivers for the
OpenGL, which
> > means that now all my 3D apps and games can be accelerated by it,
and because
> > I pride myself on always having the latest version of everything I
run. I
> > really don't want to uninstall them...
> >
> > BTW, I ran an experiment. I restarted the machine with progman
instead of
> > exporer, and POV ran just fine. I restarted with explorer and
killed all of
> > ATI's background stuff (CTRL+ALT+DEL, you know), and the machine
once again
> > froze. I'm stumped...
> >
> > --
> > Anthony L. Bennett
> > http://welcome.to/TonyB
> >
> > Non nova, sed nove.
>
> --
> Cheers
> Steve
>
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