PowerPoint Error when Deleting Temp Internet Files

[Lisa]

Any thoughts:

When I click OK within Internet Options after deleting the
temporary internet files I receive a pop-up with the
following error:

Microsoft PowerPoint View
-PowerPoint Viewer found an error that it cannot correct.
Please exit and restart PowerPoint Viewer

I do not have PowerPoint on my system nor do I have
PowerPoint View 97 installed any longer.

I am running Windows XP Pro

Thanks, Lisa

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Deleting temp files from within MSIE has always been a Russian Roulette game
with bonus bullets on every computer I've ever used. If there's more than a
few days accumulation of sludge in there, it nearly always seems to lock up
on me.

I usually do View Objects/Files to get a reminder of where it stores its
temp files, quit MSIE then use Windows explorer to delete the stuff
manually.

Not sure why you'd be getting chatter about PPT Viewer, but try rebooting
the computer, deleting temp stuff as explained above, then rebooting again.
See if that sorts things out.

 

[John O]

Deleting temp files from within MSIE has always been a Russian Roulette
game

with bonus bullets on every computer I've ever used. If there's more than a
few days accumulation of sludge in there, it nearly always seems to lock up
on me.

I learned a good one just the other day...

I was wondering why I accumulate thousands of zero-byte files in my temp
folders. Turns out that OE makes these little buggers. Clearing out the IE
temp stuff and checking the 'offline content too' box does the trick.

Also, there seems to be a trick where the index.dat file gets hosed. This
file keeps track of the IE cache, and it can get really big and ugly if you
don't set that cache to a reasonable size (15 MB is plenty). Anyway,
deleting that file on this old Win 98 box made IE walk a little more
upright. Deleting that file wasn't easy...it's in system folders and you
have to boot to a dos prompt... A google for 'index.dat' turns up some
tools that do the dirty work for you.

As for Lisa'a problem, you imply that you had the viewer installed once.
Chances are it didn't install properly, and didn't uninstall properly,
either. Maybe you installed it directly from the web, rather than
downloading it to the HDD then installing??? Does this popup message happen
all the time?

John O

---Hey, it's Friday and here's a fun link:
http://www.j-walk.com/other/wifispray/ Check out the More Humor link at the
bottom, this is 20 minutes of good, clean fun.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks, John ... goodschtuff.

than

I learned a good one just the other day...

I was wondering why I accumulate thousands of zero-byte files in my temp
folders. Turns out that OE makes these little buggers. Clearing out the IE
temp stuff and checking the 'offline content too' box does the trick.

Also, there seems to be a trick where the index.dat file gets hosed. This
file keeps track of the IE cache, and it can get really big and ugly if you
don't set that cache to a reasonable size (15 MB is plenty). Anyway,
deleting that file on this old Win 98 box made IE walk a little more
upright. Deleting that file wasn't easy...it's in system folders and you
have to boot to a dos prompt... A google for 'index.dat' turns up some
tools that do the dirty work for you.

As for Lisa'a problem, you imply that you had the viewer installed once.
Chances are it didn't install properly, and didn't uninstall properly,
either. Maybe you installed it directly from the web, rather than
downloading it to the HDD then installing??? Does this popup message happen
all the time?

John O

---Hey, it's Friday and here's a fun link:
http://www.j-walk.com/other/wifispray/ Check out the More Humor link at the
bottom, this is 20 minutes of good, clean fun.