"Blayd" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
news:web.4835e34b9f9519fff51b2e730@news.povray.org...
> Hello all,
> I have used POV in the past...a learner if you will, but I am now 
> installed on a
> new system, Vista 64, I installed POV for windows 64, opened it, went to 
> run the
> very first demo scene just to see how the system does compared to my old 
> system,
> and I get a Parse error, " Cannot open output file". POV installed into my
> programs on my C drive in the 64 bit programs folder like it should, all
> related folders appear to be there too.... not quite sure what the problem
> could be, I unrestricted I/O. Anyone have some suggestions? The INI file 
> has
> the path as 1=%installedir%\Renderer\Rerun.
> Thanks in advanced!
>

I don't have Vista, but I think I've read in previous postings that there 
are various problems where Vista secures bits and pieces that Windows has 
never secured before.

I couldn't find the thread that I was thinking of, but I came across this 
one where the last 8 responses could be of interest to you. The key seems to 
be not to install it in the default location, which write protects a whole 
load of things that stop POV-Ray working:

http://news.povray.org/povray.windows/thread/%3Cweb.462601924b1ad72e11d42ae90%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=242839&moff=20

Regards,
Chris B.

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