Web link doesn't work first time

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Brian Rapp

I have a web link in a PowerPoint show (PP 2000) that
gets "page not found" the first time it tries to open the
web page. Try again and it always works.

This only happens on certain computers, but there's not a
common operating system or browser version that might
explain it.

Any thoughts?

-Brian Rapp
 
Have you tested the same URL directly in the default browser on each of
these comptuters?
Or for a more realistic test, do Start, Run then type

START http://www.your.url/file.ext

and click OK

See if the page reliably opens each time.

Speculation: perhaps it's a timing issue ... the browser times out before
the page fully loads; the second time 'round, at least parts of the page
are in the cache so it doesn't have to d/l so much, so it manages to get
everything down the pipe before it times out.

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