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Rake Killer
Mom came into town today for a visit. In hand she had a disk with what she
said was a PP show that a friend of hers had made of the pictures of the
time they spent in southern Alabama doing relief work for Hurricane Katrina.
I popped the disk in and it did not auto run , so I used windows explorer
and navigated to the files and found a .ppt file, that when clicked opened
PowerPoint in what I would call "edit" mode. ( I don't know PP) I could
click on something(view slideshow I think) and get the presentation to run).
I tried then to "save as" a .pps to my desktop, which it did. When I clicked
on that it seemed to run fine, then I created and autorun.inf file that
looked like this...
[autorun]
open=starterfile.exe katrina.pps
(google mentioned something about auto run only opened .exe or .com, hence
the starterfile.exe)
and burned it and the Katrina.pps file to disk.
Inserted the CD and nothing happened.
When I clicked on the katrina.pps file that was on the desktop it went to
the black "starting slideshow" screen and locked. task manager showed it as
'not responding"Tried again and got...
DDE Server Window: POWERPNT.EXE - No Disk
There is no disk in the drive. Please insert disk into drive E:
"Try again" gives me the same error, "Continue" and the slide show starts
though with no sound.
"cancel" Starts the slide show then it locks and I get (sometimes, others
it just locks up)
Powerpoint Slide Show- [katrina.pps]: Powerpnt.exe- No Disk
I wonder if what I created when I "saved as" was a shortcut to the original
and when it was out of the drive that create the non responsive report.
When I "save as" does it not include all the media files(pictures/music)
into that file?
Any clues on how to create an autoruning CD with a .pps?
I am using XP pro all updates with PP 2002 SP3.
I do not know which version of PP was used to create the original.
Thanks for any and all input
said was a PP show that a friend of hers had made of the pictures of the
time they spent in southern Alabama doing relief work for Hurricane Katrina.
I popped the disk in and it did not auto run , so I used windows explorer
and navigated to the files and found a .ppt file, that when clicked opened
PowerPoint in what I would call "edit" mode. ( I don't know PP) I could
click on something(view slideshow I think) and get the presentation to run).
I tried then to "save as" a .pps to my desktop, which it did. When I clicked
on that it seemed to run fine, then I created and autorun.inf file that
looked like this...
[autorun]
open=starterfile.exe katrina.pps
(google mentioned something about auto run only opened .exe or .com, hence
the starterfile.exe)
and burned it and the Katrina.pps file to disk.
Inserted the CD and nothing happened.
When I clicked on the katrina.pps file that was on the desktop it went to
the black "starting slideshow" screen and locked. task manager showed it as
'not responding"Tried again and got...
DDE Server Window: POWERPNT.EXE - No Disk
There is no disk in the drive. Please insert disk into drive E:
"Try again" gives me the same error, "Continue" and the slide show starts
though with no sound.
"cancel" Starts the slide show then it locks and I get (sometimes, others
it just locks up)
Powerpoint Slide Show- [katrina.pps]: Powerpnt.exe- No Disk
I wonder if what I created when I "saved as" was a shortcut to the original
and when it was out of the drive that create the non responsive report.
When I "save as" does it not include all the media files(pictures/music)
into that file?
Any clues on how to create an autoruning CD with a .pps?
I am using XP pro all updates with PP 2002 SP3.
I do not know which version of PP was used to create the original.
Thanks for any and all input