Stop / Start slide show remotely - or Refresh

[John Hale]

I have a powerpoint slide show that is running and I want to be able to
update it <refresh> remotelyI am running a slide show on a non-interactive
KIOSK and from time to time, quick edits need to be made to the presentation,
and when that happens we need to remote to the unit with RDP or Dameware to
stop the show and restart it. I want to be able to do this from a remote
command line without rebooting the PC. We put the show in the startup folder
so if the PC does reboot it will automatically start with the latest version.
But during working hours, this seems less than acceptable. Any help would be
appreciated.

 

[Chirag]

The PsExec utility from http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsExec.html
should come handy here. PsExec allows you to run any command on a remote
machine without having to install anything on the remote machine. You can
use it to start the slide show by using PowerPoint command-line arguments.
To close all running slide shows, you can use the CloseAllSlideShows utility
from http://officeone.mvps.org/powerviewer/powerviewer_utilities.html. You
might also want to look at
http://officeone.mvps.org/powerviewer/tips_remote_powerviewer.html.

- Chirag

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