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Free power point viewer problem

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Magsmom

Flightless Bird
Running XP, SP3 - downloaded Free Power Point Viewer for 2007. After many
trials and errors I can finally get the program to open automatically when I
click on a .pps attachment in an email, but then I get multiple error
messages telling me the program cannot find a file. Each time I click "OK"
on one, another one pops up. The files that it is looking for are, in this
order: "Document", "and", "Local", "Temporary", "Internet" and "(name of
file)".
It seems that the program is unable to find my Temporary Internet file
folder and when I tried to find it using windows Explorer, I could not find
it either. Is this a PPV problem or an internet explorer problem, or what?
 
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Billns

Flightless Bird
On 5/28/2010 8:11 AM, Magsmom wrote:
> Running XP, SP3 - downloaded Free Power Point Viewer for 2007. After many
> trials and errors I can finally get the program to open automatically when I
> click on a .pps attachment in an email, but then I get multiple error
> messages telling me the program cannot find a file. Each time I click "OK"
> on one, another one pops up. The files that it is looking for are, in this
> order: "Document", "and", "Local", "Temporary", "Internet" and "(name of
> file)".
> It seems that the program is unable to find my Temporary Internet file
> folder and when I tried to find it using windows Explorer, I could not find
> it either. Is this a PPV problem or an internet explorer problem, or what?


Save the PowerPoint file attachment to your hard disk, then open it.
Temporary files can sometimes be troublesome to find.

Bill
 
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Bruce Hagen

Flightless Bird
"Magsmom" <Magsmom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E394B52B-80A6-4F20-A201-DAFB99AA4B56@microsoft.com...
> Running XP, SP3 - downloaded Free Power Point Viewer for 2007. After
> many
> trials and errors I can finally get the program to open automatically
> when I
> click on a .pps attachment in an email, but then I get multiple error
> messages telling me the program cannot find a file. Each time I click
> "OK"
> on one, another one pops up. The files that it is looking for are, in
> this
> order: "Document", "and", "Local", "Temporary", "Internet" and "(name of
> file)".
> It seems that the program is unable to find my Temporary Internet file
> folder and when I tried to find it using windows Explorer, I could not
> find
> it either. Is this a PPV problem or an internet explorer problem, or
> what?



Are you using Outlook Express for mail? (You left that part out).

Unable to open .PPS attachments directly from Outlook Express using XP/SP2
or XP/SP3:
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ppsopen.htm
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP [Mail]
Imperial Beach, CA
 
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