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Our lab has just upgraded to Office 2007 running on Windows XP. I am having trouble with the following sequence:
1 slide Powerpoint (.pps)
display an image file (.jpg)
ask for a scale Response
1 slide Powerpoint Show (.pps)
display an image file (.jpg)
ask for a scale response
It takes 30 seconds for each Powerpoint Show to display (screen is black with a hour glass)
With Office 2003 on my laptop, it is instanteous
Does the same thing happen if you run condition 2 of the basic sample that comes with MediaLab?
Yes, it is just as slow. The slides come up fine. It just takes 30 seconds to launch a Powerpoint Show. Obviously, this does not work well. I switched to timed Word files as a stopgap. They work fine but obviously do not have the capabilities of Powerpoint. We are running on Dell Optiplex GX620 machines (dual core Intel processors), so it is not the workstations.
I am inquiring to see if there is some setting in Powerpoint that may speed up things. I turned off the silly default of ending on a black slide.
While we try to figure this out, a short term fix might be to use an Executable item rather than the PowerPoint item.
For your Executable item, enter [I]powerpnt.exe[/I] as the file name. For the parameter value, try:
[I](c/s "C:\MediaLab\Samples\Sample1\intro.pps")[/I]
Where you substitute the path of your pps file.