Windows 98? You can disable that Task Manager BS altogether. Run the
'msconfig' program. It allows you to turn off startup programs. Like that
useless FindFast that comes with office. Or one of the two copies of your
power profile that insist on running. It's an easy way to get a hold of the
running procs, and save some RAM.

Dirk

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Derek Stark
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Eric Freeman <eri### [at] ametronet> wrote in message
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> "omniVERSE" <inv### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
> news:388490d4@news.povray.org...
> >
> > That's funny!  Got to watch out for scheduled tasks
> > like defragging too, unless it's told to wait until all
> > programs are idle a certain amount of time.
>
> I did have all other programs shut down... even my auto-answer fax
program,
> even tho it probably uses very few clock cycles checking to see if the
phone
> is ringing.
>
> > Hey, don't you have a disk drive detection there?  I just
> > use that to keep the computer from going to sleep.  It's
> > set to 90 minutes of disk inactivity before thinking all is
> > okay to stop everything and I never have a render writing
> > to the drive at longer intervals than that.
>
> I have power management set to shut everything down after an hour, but I'm
> not sure if a hard drive access starts the clock over or if it takes
> mouse/keyboard input to reset it.
>
> > That's a very good render you have there, what's showing
> > of it anyway.
>
> Thanks.  It uses focal blur, area lights with fade distance and photon
> mapping, so I knew it would take a while to render on my old P133.  I'm
> going to make "before and after" pictures of the same scene and put them
on
> my web page to demonstrate various POV's features.
>
> Eric
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> another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
> pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
> labor the bread it has earned.  This is the sum of good government."
>      - Thomas Jefferson
>      - First inaugural address, 1801
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