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I have an older (p2) Compaq machine that just runs powerpoint for a
bulletin board service. It is running WIN98SE, has 64 MB of memory,
and runs PP2000. When I open powerpoint, the program opens just fine,
but when I open the bulletin board file, The progress bar goes about
4/5 of the way just fine, but then hangs there for 10-15 minutes before
it finishes loading. Any ideas? It did run fine for over a year, and
then started this. I have run a registry cleaner, reinstalled win98,
when I ctl/alt/del, the only thing running is explorer, systray, and
VNC. I use a wireless card to connect it to the network, and use VNC
to remote control it.
 
russ said:
I have an older (p2) Compaq machine that just runs powerpoint for a
bulletin board service. It is running WIN98SE, has 64 MB of memory,
and runs PP2000. When I open powerpoint, the program opens just fine,
but when I open the bulletin board file, The progress bar goes about
4/5 of the way just fine, but then hangs there for 10-15 minutes before
it finishes loading. Any ideas? It did run fine for over a year, and
then started this. I have run a registry cleaner, reinstalled win98,
when I ctl/alt/del, the only thing running is explorer, systray, and
VNC. I use a wireless card to connect it to the network, and use VNC
to remote control it.
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As an afterthought, There is no anti-virus, or anything else running.
 
TAJ, yes it is a powerpoint, about 2.5 meg in size. Actually stored as
a PPS. I have another machine running 98SE and Office 2000, and over
the network, if I open the same file from the other computer, no
problem. Actually, I save updates as a PP and then use insert slides
from files, and if I just try to open the small update file, I get the
same scenario.

Thanks.
Russ
 
I have an older (p2) Compaq machine that just runs powerpoint for a
bulletin board service. It is running WIN98SE, has 64 MB of memory,
and runs PP2000. When I open powerpoint, the program opens just fine,
but when I open the bulletin board file, The progress bar goes about
4/5 of the way just fine, but then hangs there for 10-15 minutes before
it finishes loading. Any ideas?
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Not right off, but a followup question:

What progress bar? PPT doesn't normally display one when opening files. ISTR
that it may do so when opening a file from an earlier version of PPT. Is there
any chance that that's happening here?

If so, open it directly in PPT and save it as a normal PPT file, not an earlier
version.

Next, are there any linked files in the presentation?
 
When it opens, down in the bottom left side, there is a progress bar.
It is about where auto-shapes is once the program is running. It is
PPT 2000, and the file is a 97-2003 presentation. There are no linked
files. Just a plain vanilla PPT presentation.
 
When it opens, down in the bottom left side, there is a progress bar.
It is about where auto-shapes is once the program is running. It is
PPT 2000, and the file is a 97-2003 presentation. There are no linked
files. Just a plain vanilla PPT presentation.
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OK, then follow my earlier suggestion and see what happens. Open the file, choose
File, Save As and save it as a PPT 2000 file, and specifically NOT the hybrid
97-2003&95 format that you've got now (there isn't a 97-2003 format as such; the
option includes 97-2003 AND a PPT95 format file.)

Before doing that I'd also walk through the setup steps suggested here:

Do this before using PowerPoint seriously
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm
 
I tried all the stuff in the FAQ, still didn't work. Tried saving the
file a bunch of different ways, no help. Finally dug out my Office 97,
reinstalled it, removed 2000, low and behold, it now works greats.

Russ
 
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