'Powerpoint' Stops working when exited

[MikeM]

I've been having trouble with office 2007 since the service pack update. When
I exit excel, powerpoint, or word, I often get an error message which is
along the lines of 'Powerpoint' has stopped working, and iwhichever package
I'm using reloads.

I also find that if I double click on a file name to launch powerpoint from
searching files, it starts powerpoint viewer. I need to load the file from
powerpoint itself to get the file to load correctly.

Any ideas?

 

[HP PRINTER DRIVER IS THE CAUSE]

Mike,
In the first instance: I have had the same problem with both Word and
PowerPoint. In my case it is definitely caused by the HP printer driver. If
you have a HP printer, make the XPS driver the default and then select the HP
driver when you want to print.
AND COMPLAIN TO HP. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER A YEAR! HP NEEDS TO FIX
THIS PROBLEM.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Post this to the Power Point newsgroup as it is there where many experts on PP are

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...s/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.powerpoint

 

[Peter Foldes]

This issue with PowerPoint has nothing to do with the HP printer or it's driver

 

[freardpt]

This issue has everything to do with HP printers. I have a dell XPS
and had the same problem with powerpoint not shutting down correctly.
It was frustrating. I uninstalled my HP printer software and now
everything works great.