Mike Raiford wrote:
> In XP there's a chevron next to the notification area . Click it and it 
> will expand the notification area showing all icons, it could have been 
> hidden because it was "inactive" However,
> 
> I don't know if IExplore took explorer down with it, but if it did:
> 
> go to http://www.sysinternals.com and download process explorer. Unzip 
> it, run it, find the PVENGINE process and right-click. Choose bring to 
> front.

Occasionally the chevron will be gone; I think there's a bug in Windows 
causing this, especially after the volume icon is clicked. If the 
chevron is gone, there's a simpler solution. I discovered this yesterday 
after spending the better part of an hour trying to open up POV that I 
had set on High priority and then put in the tray. Since the priority 
was so high it wouldn't respond to clicks on the taskbar. I could barely 
open up the Task Manager.

All you have to do is browse through Windows Explorer to your POV-Ray 
installation directory and open pvengine.exe. If you have "Keep Single 
Instance" checked, POV-Ray will immediately come up - the same one that 
was in the tray just a few seconds ago. No render interruptions. If you 
don't have the Single Instance option checked and a *new* POV program 
comes up, check the option (found on the Options menu), exit that POV 
instance and reopen it. It *should* open up the instance that's hidden 
in your taskbar.

Hope it works...I know all about that "I don't want to lose this looong 
render!!" feeling. :) (I currently have one running that's been chugging 
for approximately 3 days, 1 hour and 17 minutes!)

~Mike

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