Re: Music stops playing in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow

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I believe the issue is the autorun, then. FWIW, I don't let stuff autorun much, either.

No worries. Just use the "open folder to view files" option and double-click the play.bat file on the CD. If you don't have file extensions enabled (many many users won't), then you won't see the ".bat" extension and would just double-click the "play" file. You could give those instructions to your users -- "This CD is set up to autorun when you insert it into the drive. If it does not autorun, double-click the Play file to start the presentation." Or something to that effect.

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"Deloresw" <Deloresw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B28B4374-FABC-4E46-AC57-55ECEB2F22E3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The playlist text file has the name of the PP show: AlecNew.pps

I have not activated the autorun on anything but Media Player. When the
popup comes up, I ignore it and open a file where ever I choose. Maybe that
is the problem on my computer. I have been blaming VISTA, which is easy to
do. <smile> I will test it and let you know what happens.

One of my son-in-laws is a computer specialist and he told me he NEVER lets
any program open automatically so that would be the solution for why it does
not open automatically on his computer. I am the one who questioned it, but I
have. I would almost bet my other son-in-law feels the same way and has the
autorun turned off.

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