multiple windows update on problem

[Touch Base]

| Save it first and then try opening it. You do have the viewer installed?
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| Touch Base wrote:
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| > A friend of mine has a Dell Inspiron notebook with a new install of Windows 2000. The installation was done by somebody else. When he tries to open a .pps file from an e-mail, the browser (both Firefox and IE) starts to open multiple Untitled windows, one after the other. You have to click on 'Stop', or the thing keeps going forevever, then you have to shut each window separately.
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| > Any ideas?

Thanks Bob,
It was suggested that all these browser windows would not open if the file association was correct and/or the correct program for viewing was installed. We are looking in to it and will report back.

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Just getting back about this problem. The user has checked the file association and it is set to open PowerPoint presentation using the MS Office PowerPoint program. If they try and access/view it using Outlook Express both IE & Firefox try and open the pps file and this causes both programs to open multiple brower windows. Does this indicate a corruption with the OS or is there something else we can check?

 

[Dave Patrick]

Here's what I have

C:\>assoc .pps
..pps=PowerPoint.SlideShow.8

C:\>ftype PowerPoint.SlideShow.8
PowerPoint.SlideShow.8="C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\OFFICE11\POWERPNT.EXE" /s "%1"

C:\>



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| Save it first and then try opening it. You do have the viewer installed?
|
| Touch Base wrote:
|
| > A friend of mine has a Dell Inspiron notebook with a new install of
Windows 2000. The installation was done by somebody else. When he tries to
open a .pps file from an e-mail, the browser (both Firefox and IE) starts to
open multiple Untitled windows, one after the other. You have to click on
'Stop', or the thing keeps going forevever, then you have to shut each
window separately.
| >
| > Any ideas?

Thanks Bob,
It was suggested that all these browser windows would not open if the file
association was correct and/or the correct program for viewing was
installed. We are looking in to it and will report back.

============================================================
Just getting back about this problem. The user has checked the file
association and it is set to open PowerPoint presentation using the MS
Office PowerPoint program. If they try and access/view it using Outlook
Express both IE & Firefox try and open the pps file and this causes both
programs to open multiple brower windows. Does this indicate a corruption
with the OS or is there something else we can check?