Powerpoint Slideshow freezes after several looped plays

[Greggy7777]

I have a fairly simple slideshow that I am playing on a dedicated machine with a cloned monitor to a messege board TV. The show will play through a few times, but eventually will just freeze on a random slide. It is not always the same slide. I have tried removing all slide action but it still freezes up eventually. It is the slide show freezing, not the PC. There is no sound, no avi or any special slides in the show. The PC is more than adequate for this application, and it is dedicated to this task. I have even tried using a different PC and get the same result. Am wondering if a PPS is not designed to just continuously play for hours or days at a time!?

 

[cckens]

Are you using a projector or the actual PPT app? I would think that exporting to a projector and running that would drop a lot of processor overhead. Just my 2pence

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[Greggy7777]

I have saved the PPT as a slidshow (PPS) and am running the PPS, if that is what you mean.

 

[TAJSimmons]

Greggy7777

There have been quite a few reports of powerpoint locking up when running continuously. Somekind of 'memory leak'

The best options I've heard are these:

1) Use the free powerpoint viewer to view the show, and not the full powerpoint software

2) Schedule powerpoint to start using this

http://www.tushar-mehta.com/powerpoint/auto_schedule/

and stop when nobody will see it stop, then re-start it

cheers

TAJ Simmons
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[Greggy7777]

Thanks! I will try your suggestions.