Frustrating powerpoint issue

[Eric]

Here's the scenario:


Two of our employees went on a sales presentation with a fully working
PowerPoint presentation that was created in the office on our LAN.
When the two employees left the office and were working on the
presentation in the hotel the presentation began to lock up. The
PowerPoint presentation in question is 6MB in size and 99 slides.

When I looked at it on the same laptop when the employees returned
from the presentation I could not reproduce the problem. This is the
second time in the last two weeks a PowerPoint presentation has locked
up when it is worked on outside of the office.

I opened the presentations on the same laptop both on and off line and
had no problems. The machines have the latest pattern virus files and
there is no virus on the machine. A full hardware scan from the Dell
utilities disk shows no problems with the computer. The machine also
has the latest BIOS and chipset versions. All machines in question
are Windows XP SP1

Has anyone else experienced anything like this? It is very
frustrating since I am not able to reproduce the issue in house.

Thanks!

-Eric

 

[Echo S]

I would bet it's a printer driver issue. See
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm (the part about setting a
printer driver as default.

 

[Dave]

Having the same problem with slide presentations. The
problem seems to occur while the presentation is left to
run for an extended period of time. Then when I want to
move to the next slide, I can't. I end up re-starting the
whole slide show.

 

[Sonia]

That sounds more like:

PowerPoint locks up when running a presentation non-stop
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00221.htm

 

[Echo S]

That sounds different than the original poster's question. It seems to deal
with PPT locking while in Edit mode, but yours is locking in slide show
mode.

With your issue, does the show lock up on the same slide always, or is it on
random slides? If it's random, I'd try turning off your virus scan software
and any other processes that might be kicking in in the background while
your show is "idle."