"Thomas de Groot" <tDOTdegroot@interDOTnlANOTHERDOTnet> wrote in message 
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> "BobH" <omniverse*charter!net> schreef in bericht 
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>> using Windows 7 (Beta and now RC) awhile now and haven't gone back to 
>> Vista (unless I must).
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> Sheer curiosity: How is POV behaving under Windows7?

Sorry Thomas, hadn't seen you ask this until just now. Been going through so 
many other messages a little at a time.

Overall Windows 7's main positive side is quick start-up from off. Being on 
a notebook here that's a major advantage over earlier Windows'. Another plus 
is the ease of installing/running programs compared to Vista default 
behavior of prompting for permission. That still exists to some degree but 
it isn't so annoying now.

That said, I haven't timed renders to see if there's a change but it just 
seems better.
POV 3.6 and 3.7 do well, without needing to make adjustments to Windows 
itself, only the usual POV option for file write permission into a non-POV 
location.
P-R 3.7 beta is actually the best since it installs with user files placed 
in a documents\pov-ray subfolder, as you might already know. I'm hoping 
Chris can make this happen for the redone version 3.6(.2).
Anyway, no problems encountered running POV under W7.

Bob

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