PowerPoint with audio narration tracks

[MTVilla]

Our company sends out PowerPoint presentations to our clients o
minidisks. These presentations have audio narration tracks that star
with each slide. The problem I'm having is that when you load the dis
into a cd drive on a Windows XP home machine it sees it as an audio c
and you can't even explore to the autuorun files, or the presentations
This disk works fine on Win2K and Win XP Pro.

Any help at all is appreciated.

:confused

 

[Sonia]

In Explorer or My Computer, right click on your CD drive and click
Properties. Then click on the Autorun tab. The setting there probably
needs to be changed.

 

[Echo S]

When you burn the CD, burn it as a data CD, not an audio CD. Even though
there are audio files (WAVs) on the CD, it still needs to be burnt as a data
CD.

 

[MTVilla]

The wierd thing is that Windows 2000 and XP Pro do not have this issue.
You can explore to the cd drive and see all of the files/folders.

Also, the cd should autorun when you insert into the drive.

The drive properties even when changed do not seem to affect th
ability to even SEE the other files.

We had this CD professionally produced for us and again, in any othe
OS than XP Home, the autorun works perfectly and you can explore to an
file/folder on the cd

 

[Echo S]

Ah, then in that case, I'd think Sonia's on to something with the CD
settings as opposed to what I was suggesting about the way it's burned.

I don't know enough about WinXP Home to tell you anything here. You might
want to post to one of the WinXP Home newsgroups.

 

[MTVilla]

I just burned it onto a regular CD-R and it works fine. I think when
burning it in XP Pro it knows that the disk is multi-mode and burns the
new disk as multi-mode.

Thanks for all of your responses though.

I may just have to rip the audio and embed it into the presentations.

 

[Sonia]

You shouldn't record it as multi-mode. Record it as a data CD. The
narration files are treated "like data" by PowerPoint.