audio record interruption

[nutty pofessor]

I'm using PPT 2003 SP2. While recording audio using a mic during a slide
presentation, occasionally my taskbar will pop up for 2-3 seconds and then go
away. While this does not cause an interruption in the slide show, when I
play the finished presentation back with the recorded audio, the slideshow
shows the taskbar pop up and the narration starts over from the beginning of
the slide. For some reason PPT is recording the taskbar popup and this
interrupts the audio recording setting it back about 5 mins. Any ideas? I
have run taskmanager to see what might be running in the background and
besides the normal windows processes I also have Symantec running.

 

[nutty pofessor]

The slide presentation has nothing more than basic text with an ocasional
image. I have disabled Symantec Anti-virus and it does not fix the problem.
The interruption to powerpoint is intermittent. It never happens in the same
place twice. Again, whenever the interuption occurs it resets the recorded
audio to the beginning of the slide and when the slide transitions to the
next slide, the audio gets cut off. Anyone else suffered from this strange
problem?

 

[Austin Myers]

Any chance you have an IM client running?



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[nutty pofessor]

Ok, I finally discovered that there was a process from HP running in the
background that checked for driver updates. Killing that process has fixed
this entire problem. Thanks for your ideas.