ppview32.exe

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I have a marketing presentation .PPS created with Powerpoint 2000 packaged
on a CD with an autorun.inf file to open ppview32.exe (everything is on the
CD to run automatically).

When run on XP PC with Powerpnt.exe, runs fine. When run on XP PC WITHOUT
powerpnt.exe, ppview32.exe tries repeatedly to install powerpnt.exe; when I
finally cancel the install attempt (it tries several times in a row - many
clicks on cancel button!), the presentation runs fine, but it looks really
silly it's trying to install powerpoint.

Am I doing something wrong (I used Package for CD in crating the CD,
everything seemed fine, and IS fine on a machine with powerpoint installed),
or is ppview32.exe really that dumb?

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.
 
Something is not jiving here, because ppview32.exe is not capable of trying
to install powerpnt.exe. What else is on the CD? Is it possible that there
is a setup.exe file on the CD? Can you copy and paste here the two lines of
code in the autorun.inf file?
 
It sounds as though perhaps you have a version of Office on the computer
already but without PowerPoint installed. That might set the file associations
up to point to PPT rather than the viewer for PPT files, which in turn might
well set off an installation attempt.

Or when you say "without powerpnt.exe" do you mean that it's been renamed or
the like? That might also trigger this.

This isn't normal behavior, you can be sure of that. I don't think you need to
worry about it happening on computers w/o PowerPoint.


I have a marketing presentation .PPS created with Powerpoint 2000 packaged
on a CD with an autorun.inf file to open ppview32.exe (everything is on the
CD to run automatically).

When run on XP PC with Powerpnt.exe, runs fine. When run on XP PC WITHOUT
powerpnt.exe, ppview32.exe tries repeatedly to install powerpnt.exe; when I
finally cancel the install attempt (it tries several times in a row - many
clicks on cancel button!), the presentation runs fine, but it looks really
silly it's trying to install powerpoint.

Am I doing something wrong (I used Package for CD in crating the CD,
everything seemed fine, and IS fine on a machine with powerpoint installed),
or is ppview32.exe really that dumb?

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions.
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Nope. That's not it. He sent me the file list and the autorun.inf code and
it all looks good, if the CD is indeed autorunning. I would agree with
Steve that we don't have all of the information. Actually I suspect that
the CD isn't autorunning and instead that Chuck is clicking on the .PPS file
in Windows Explorer. If that's the case, the Viewer is out of the picture
and Windows is in search of an application to run a .PPS file.

photowiz said:
I believe Sonia is on the right track here, open the autorun.inf file in
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notepad and see what the code is...good job Sonia!
Steve Rindsberg said:
It sounds as though perhaps you have a version of Office on the computer
already but without PowerPoint installed. That might set the file associations
up to point to PPT rather than the viewer for PPT files, which in turn might
well set off an installation attempt.

Or when you say "without powerpnt.exe" do you mean that it's been renamed or
the like? That might also trigger this.

This isn't normal behavior, you can be sure of that. I don't think you need to
worry about it happening on computers w/o PowerPoint.


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