RE: Crash Loop with PowerPoint and Projector

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Oh Yeah, the problem is experiened on Windows XP and Windows 2000
Professional. My XP system is fully patched via office and windows upgrades.
Laptop brands are recent Dell's and IBM Thinkpads.

"Max" wrote:

> Several members of my trainining team and I experience this problem with
> several different brands of laptop and projectors.
>
> PowerPoint 2003 and MS-Project Professional 2003 SP1 tend to interact badly.
> When you try to simultaneously display PowerPoint 2003 and MS-Project 2003
> on a projector, Project tends to go into an infinite crash and restart loop.
> Project seems to do this whenever displayed on a projector, and the video
> resolution is anything other than the default. I suspect PowerPoint 2003
> changes the video resolution without telling us. Once Project Professional
> 2003 SP1 starts doing this, it seems to keep doing it after you unplug the
> projector and press the buttons on the laptop that tell it not to output
> video to the external video port.
>
> Uninstalling and re-installing Project doesn’t help.
>
> Re-booting doesn't always help. Eventually some magic keystroke, I can't
> figure out what, will get project to load ok, but it dies again when you
> connect back up to the projector with PowerPoint going.
>
> I've let Project automatically report the error to MS several times. I
> checked the knowledge base and came up empty.
>
> Any ideas?
> --
> Learning is forever.
.

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