Powerpoint document randomly slow to open.

[Hardke01]

I have a problem here that is causing some grief among our users.

We have a number of Powerpoint presentations that take varying amounts of
time to open.
For instance a have just created a single slide presentation with 2 jpeg
images and 3 lines of text. Fairly simple and is about 75kb in size. This can
take up to 30 seconds to open for one user but open up in half a second for
another.
Removing the user profile that loads the ppt fast, causes the document to
open slow afterwards.

Any pointers/help would be great.

Thanks

[Steve Rindsberg]

Post by Hardke01
I have a problem here that is causing some grief among our users.
We have a number of Powerpoint presentations that take varying amounts of
time to open.
For instance a have just created a single slide presentation with 2 jpeg
images and 3 lines of text. Fairly simple and is about 75kb in size. This can
take up to 30 seconds to open for one user but open up in half a second for
another.
Removing the user profile that loads the ppt fast, causes the document to
open slow afterwards.

Does it matter how the user opens the file?

For a while, I had a similar problem on one of the PCs. Double click an Excel
or JPG icon and it'd take 30 seconds or more to open the file. Start Excel or
an image editor and use file, open on the same files and they'd open instantly.

Then it just stopped doing that. Never did work out why, which is kinda
annoying.

You might google Sysinternals ... that'll take you to what's now an MS-owned
site where there are lots of useful monitoring tools that'd let you see what the
computer's doing under the hood while this delay goes on.

Ah, but first, another idea ... start PPT, then use File, Open to open files on
the user's local hard drive. Open then close several of them, enough to fill up
the Most Recently Used list. Then close PPT and try one of the "problem" files.

Voodoo? No. By filling up the MRU list with local/available files, you push
OFF the list any files that might be on mapped/network drives that are no longer
available. If there are any of these on the MRU list it can really slow things
down.



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[Lucy Thomson]

Hi

As well as Steve's advice, I seem to recall having this problem on
networked PCs once when they were mapped to no longer existing drives.

Just a thought.

Lucy
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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

Post by Hardke01
I have a problem here that is causing some grief among our users.
We have a number of Powerpoint presentations that take varying amounts of
time to open.
For instance a have just created a single slide presentation with 2 jpeg
images and 3 lines of text. Fairly simple and is about 75kb in size. This can
take up to 30 seconds to open for one user but open up in half a second for
another.
Removing the user profile that loads the ppt fast, causes the document to
open slow afterwards.
Any pointers/help would be great.
Thanks

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