Very Slow Powerpoint

[ryalch]

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.

[jarvis24]

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 powerpnt.exe as the file name. For the parameter value, try:

(c/s "C:\MediaLab\Samples\Sample1\intro.pps")

Where you substitute the path of your pps file.