Bill DeWitt wrote in message <38bf43af@news.povray.org>...
>
>"Richard Speir" <dai### [at] mindspringcom> wrote :
>>
>> Any help on this issue would be appreciated.
>>
>
>    Not much of a help this time, but I have started keeping -everything-
>out of the Povray directory.  Even my ini files have copies in another
>location.  I just got -so- tired of new installs overwriting my insert menu
>and ini files and worrying about my .pov files...
>


Aggreed.

What I do is tell pov to backup existing files then copy them back
when the install is finished. I managed to format the C drive, reinstall
windows
and get POV running in just over three hours a couple of weekends ago


As for registry key - copy all the text below my signature, save as a .reg
file
then run it. I would recoment backing up the registry before you do this
(Just in Case!)

This assummes that pov is installed in a directory D:\Personal\Pov-Ray for
windows 3.1

Gail
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