PowerPoint (XP) on Windows 2000 Machine

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Wendy

We upgraded to Office XP this summer in our high school
lab. Now when you try and view a slide show in
PowerPoint, it will not run. We have 25 Windows 98
machines in our lab and 2 Windows 2000 machines. Office
XP runs slide shows fine on the 98 machines but will not
run a slideshow on either of our Win 2000 machines. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciate!
 
We upgraded to Office XP this summer in our high school
lab. Now when you try and view a slide show in
PowerPoint, it will not run. We have 25 Windows 98
machines in our lab and 2 Windows 2000 machines. Office
XP runs slide shows fine on the 98 machines but will not
run a slideshow on either of our Win 2000 machines.
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"will not run" covers a lot of territory.

Can you narrow the field of search down a bit? What *does* happen when the
slide show doesn't run? If it involves sparks and flame, can I come watch?
;-)

Do you get any error messages? If so, give us the exact text (text - not a
screen shot, please!)
Do you see something about the slideshow in the task bar?
 
In addition, how are you trying to "run" the slide show? Double click a
..pps file, opening PowerPoint, open the presentation and hitting F5? I
suggest you try the last one. It may be that the file type association on
the Windows 2000 doesn't have .pps files associated with PowerPoint XP.
 
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