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Regarding to Screen Saver

by Devathu Nov 25, 2003 3:00PM PST

The pc have the Windows 2000 pro and office 2000.
Problem is when ever run slide show, The screen saver will disable automatically.
Pls help on this.

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Re:Regarding to Screen Saver
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 25, 2003 8:03PM PST

Since a slide show is not part of what gets installed off a Windows 2000 CD (the one from Microsoft with SP1), I can't comment since there are too many slide softwares out there. You would have to look at said slide software and find out if it has a control/checkbox to allow screensaver.

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Bob

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Re:Re:Regarding to Screen Saver
by Devathu Nov 25, 2003 9:23PM PST

Bob,

This problem is happening with all types of H/W like IBM(p-iv),Dell(p-ii).. And the PC contains only Win2k with SP4 and Office2000.

The problem is, When ever PPS(powerpoint slideshow)run
the screensaver will be disable automatically.

Regards,
kris

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That's by design.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Nov 25, 2003 9:31PM PST

"Microsoft realizes that users frequently give presentations from their laptops. With PowerPoint 2000, Windows screensavers are disabled during a presentation. In addition, the laptop?s low-power screen mode has been disengaged to prevent interruptions during a presentation."
from a Microsoft support article.

Sadly, I do not own that particular version of PowerPoint. I do have it on a Windows ME box, but Office 97 and Open Office is on the Windows 2000 box at present.

Now that we know that PowerPoint (PP2000) is supposed to do this, you may need to research PP2000's settings to see if they have an off switch.

This is not a Windows 2000 issue.

Bob

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