powerpoint slideshow skips pictures randomly

[Amy Hansen]

I am running powerpoint 2000 on windows XP. I have saved
my presentations as pps and ppt. When I view the
presentation using the 97 viewer to test it, It skips
pictures. The text will show up, but the pictures won't
always show up. If I run it manually the pictures will
show. Why is this occuring. My goal is to have the
slideshow run automatically from a CD. ( I have sonia's
create autorun cd installed) Please help! thanks. Amy

 

[Amy Hansen]

Sonia,
My presentation has 38 slides with one or two pictures on
each slide with descriptive explanations. I have music
looped to play continuosly throughout the entire
presentation, and I have the slide transitions set to
left to right for the entire presentation as well. I am
not using any animation or videos. The pictures skip
randomly using the viewer on a cd as well as using the
viewer from my harddrive. I can manually proceed through
the presentation and view all the pictures. I will look
into updating the video driver. Please let me know what
else it could be. Thank you.

 

[Sonia]

Update the video driver and we'll go from there. It's best to make one
change at a time.

 

[Amy Hansen]

Sonia, I have found that when I disable anti-virus
software and run my autorun cd, that it does not skip. Is
there someway around this? I have others try this as
well, and they have found the same result. Please help.

Thank you. Amy

 

[Sonia]

If your anti-virus software is the problem, then it is best to temporarily
disable it. It is probably eating up CPU cycles that the Viewer needs to
process the presentation. This will occur on systems that are less powerful
and have less memory, and possibly with AV software that isn't optimally
written.

 

[Amy Hansen]

Sonia,

When I create a presentation with my virus scan disabled,
are you thinking that I will then be able to view it
correctly without skips and does this mean that I have no
assurance of how other machines will view my presentation
(if they have a virus scan software running, which most
do)?
I am feeling a bit uncomfortable in sending out my
presentation on cd if the end user may have problems
viewing it. My goal is to send out CD's that auto-run a
slide presentation that the user has to do absolutely
nothing but watch.

I sincerely appreciate your feedback.

Thank you.

Amy

 

[Sonia]

I can't really answer that question or make a good call on it without seeing
your system, looking at the details of your presentations, and knowing a lot
about the systems that will be running the CD. If you are willing to modify
the presentation, you might try removing the transitions and lengthening the
timing of each slide. See if it runs better on your system.