"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in
news:3f5b7377$1@news.povray.org: 

> In article <Xns### [at] 204213191226> , Marc Champagne 
><marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca>  wrote:
> 
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I have been experiencing long delays when launching POV for windows, it
>> take anywhere from 30 seconds to 90 seconds before it has "loaded" and
>> is ready to use.
>>
>> During this time there is lots of HD activity (scratching).
>>
>> The HD's are regularly defragged.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I have Win 2000, 1 gigahertz, 512k ram, plenty of
>> disk space.
>>
>> This happens with and without scenes loaded and is usually on first
>> launch after being closed for a while, subsequent loads are quick.
>>
>> What does POV do on startup that would explain all this scratching?
> 
> POV-Ray is deliberately trying to destroy your harddisk, isn't it
> obvious? 
> 
> No, serious, you are just hunting ghosts.  Maybe you should get a less
> noisy harddisk... :-)

Thorston, the noise I'm least concerned about, I'm trying to find out what
POV for windows does at startup that takes so much time before it's ready
for use. 

-- 
Marc Champagne
marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca
Montreal, CANADA

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