Slide show?

[Guest]

Like others my slide show worked until today. The blank screen says "an error
is preventing slide show from playing. I have Vista Business, about 30
slides. What exactly do I do to make it work?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Like others my slide show worked until today. The blank screen says "an error
is preventing slide show from playing. I have Vista Business, about 30
slides. What exactly do I do to make it work?

What slide show? Is this a PowerPoint presentation? If so, you'd be
much more likely to get the help you need if you would ask in an
Office/PowerPoint newsgroup than here in a Vista one.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, no I am talking about the slide show" Screen Saver when you Personalize.

 

[mikeyhsd]

the number and types of files can cause problems.

are they all the same file type.
try it with half as many and then add half the remaining back etc...



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Like others my slide show worked until today. The blank screen says "an error
is preventing slide show from playing. I have Vista Business, about 30
slides. What exactly do I do to make it work?

 

[Cal Bear '66]

If you have any movie files in the folder, it will fail. You have to remove any
video files from the folder you are using for the slide show.

 

[Guest]

No videos in file so I will try to remove some files.

 

[Guest]

What file types should I not use? I don't have any videos in the file.

 

[mikeyhsd]

try reducing the number of files.
like half.
then add in half of the remainder.



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What file types should I not use? I don't have any videos in the file.

 

[Adam Albright]

try reducing the number of files.
like half.
then add in half of the remainder.

What kind of half ass advice is that?

 

[Guest]

Mine too was working in Windows Vista Ultimate, and then a few days after the
upgrade, suddenly "stopped working" while displaying the error "an error is
preventing this slide show from playing".

I have installed windows vista at least twice, and the very same issue has
occurred both times.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Have you tried removing any video files that might be in the folder you are
using for the slide show?

 

[Guest]

I have no videos in the file and I removed over half of the JPGS, it still
does not work. What do I try next?

 

[Mark]

It could be the slide show index is corrupted. The slide show has its own
tiny database and it seems to get corrupted occasionally. Fortunately it is
easy to delete and then slideshow resets to default values.

Instead of deleting you should be able to rename it and get the same effect
if you are worried. I have deleted mine several times without any problems,
but i don't guarantee anything ;-)

the file is C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Photo
Gallery\Pictures.pd4

Hope that helps!
Mark

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the information and suggestion. Unfortunately this did not work.
Interestingly enough, the slide show gadget works, as does the slide show
itself. Frustratingly it is the screen saver's slide show that nno longer
works.

It could be the slide show index is corrupted. The slide show has its own
tiny database and it seems to get corrupted occasionally. Fortunately it is
easy to delete and then slideshow resets to default values.

Instead of deleting you should be able to rename it and get the same effect
if you are worried. I have deleted mine several times without any problems,
but i don't guarantee anything ;-)

the file is C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Photo
Gallery\Pictures.pd4

Hope that helps!
Mark

I have no videos in the file and I removed over half of the JPGS, it still
does not work. What do I try next?

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I'll try it!

It could be the slide show index is corrupted. The slide show has its own
tiny database and it seems to get corrupted occasionally. Fortunately it is
easy to delete and then slideshow resets to default values.

Instead of deleting you should be able to rename it and get the same effect
if you are worried. I have deleted mine several times without any problems,
but i don't guarantee anything ;-)

the file is C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Photo
Gallery\Pictures.pd4

Hope that helps!
Mark

I have no videos in the file and I removed over half of the JPGS, it still
does not work. What do I try next?

 

[Guest]

Like others my slide show worked until today. The blank screen says "an error
is preventing slide show from playing. I have Vista Business, about 30
slides. What exactly do I do to make it work?

I have Vista Home Edition showing pictures form "My Pictures" folder. It has
done the same thing. What's the fix?

 

[Adam Albright]

I have Vista Home Edition showing pictures form "My Pictures" folder. It has
done the same thing. What's the fix?

None I know of. The trouble with most Microsoft software is not just
that it breaks down with alarming frequency but that rarely does it
give you a clue what happened. You can try sniffing around using Event
Viewer found in Control Panel under Administrative tools, but often
that is just a wild goose chase.

If you make a lot of slide shows you plan on keeping meaning you plan
on putting them on a CD or DVD do yourself a huge favor and buy a
third party application that does it way better and doesn't crash as
often as you change your socks.

I personally use Sony's Vegas. While a bit expensive, it's little
brother Home Studio. http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/default.asp
offers many of the same features at a reasonable price.

 

[Cal Bear '66]

"My Pictures" is not a real folder, it is a "junction" for compatibility with
older programs. "Pictures" is it's replacement in Vista.

 

[Guest]

I have been struggling with this problem on 2 computers - on the 1st it
worked fine then stopped. I had copied my files from old to new computer -
and so on new computer it never worked, which led me to believe it was
something in the Pictures folder. By process of eliminiation I discovered
that I had several shortcut files in the pictures folder. If the shortcut
points to a valid location then there is no problem - but two of the
shortcuts pointed to invalid locations - and they were triggering the message
"an error is preventing the slideshow from playing".

I have a mix of video, jpg, tiff, gif, photoshop and other graphic files in
My Pictures and valid shortcut files are okay.

Hope this helps some of those still struggling with the problem.

Kathie

 

[Guest]

I had this problem and another, after failing to find a solution to this I
moved on to the next and it fixed both my problems. Problem I fixed was
Server Execution Faild, with a red "X" over the icon. This is what I
did....Simply run a command prompt as an administrator (right-click on it and
click "Open as Administrator") then enter the following command line:

net localgroup "Administrators" "NT Authority\Local Service" /add