Video file crash

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readington88

my wife has a lenovo T61 running XP and Microsoft Office 7. She is trying to
run a "canned" presentation that was written in Powerpoint 3 and includes
video files.

I open up Powerpoint 07 and pull up the Presentation. When I first open and
click on the first slide the associated video file operates as expected.
Subsequent files or slides don't open and powerpoint freezes.

If I control-alt-delete out and repeat the process, powderpoint freezes as
soon as I click on the first video file, until I reboot the machine.

The problem seems to be fixed if I set the "graphics accelerator" to any of
the three lowest settings. Questions:

1) should just leave the accelerator at the highest setting that works and
tell my wife I "fixed" the problem?

2) if I did, is she ever likely to find out or care?

3) does the "accelerator fix" point to a more appropriate solution?


The problem seems associated with Powerpoint 7 as the video player plays
all the associated video files normally.
 

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