When I start PowerPoint at work, all of the premade slide templates are there when I start working.

When I start PowerPoint at home, the image of each template takes about 15 second to appear in the task pane, so it is several minutes before they are all visible.

Why does this happen? I don't see either any long disk activity or any long internet activity while I am waiting for them to appear. I see a blip of disk activity just before each one appears, but nothing else.

If I close the task pane and work on something else, they are all there when I return after several minutes.

maybe its related to the picture manager bug:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555592

or the bug this guy is having:

http://www.technologyquestions.com/m...owerpoint.html

Maybe you meant the loading of all slide thumbnails in left pane of PowerPoint is too slow. If so, I just suggest that you can close the left pane and save the presentation again. The next time you open it, the pane will not display in PowerPoint.



William Peterson

I mean the Slide Design thumbnails in the Task Pane on the right. Use Format/Slide Design to open them.

More information:

- I tried the Picture Manager bug. There were no deleted paths.

- I have not upgraded to Office 2007.

- Each thumbnail takes 15-20 seconds to load.

- If I click on the empty thumbnail frame, the full sized image loads in the slide immediately.

- The thumbnails load one at a time, in the order they appear in, (left to right, and down to the next row after each row fills). Each take 15 to 20 seconds to load.

- If I click on the next unloaded thumbnail, it loads immediately in both the slide and the thumbnail.

- If I click on a lower thumbnail, the image loads in the slide immediately, but the thumbnail stays empty. When the thumbnail just before the one i clicked loads, the one I clocked also loads without the delay.

- If I click on several consecutive thumbnails, one at a time, they all load at once when the previous thumbnail finishes loading.

More info.

Once it loads the thumbnails, it works correctly if I use PowerPoint again in the same work session. The thumbnails take a long time to load only when it is the first time I use PowerPoint after a boot.

I think its just something to do with your PC configuration, your office pc probably have higher specs typically ram and vga and maybe your pc has spyware and other factors that cuase your pc to slow down...

i think office 07 is just a POS

I have checked for malware. None is apparent.

I would think that, if my home PC was too slow, the disk drive would be continuously being accessed. But instead, the drive light is off during those delays, until half a second before the next thumbnail loads.

And, as I said earlier, I can speed up the loads by clicking on each empty thumbnail space in order, causing the full screen versions to appear on the slide in quick succession (and the thumbnails to appear with their full screen version). This is definitely not a slow computer problem.

It's almost like there is a deliberate delay between loads.

I do not see any other symptoms of an overloaded computer. I have plenty of hard disk space, and nothing else shows any delays.

Other than this, DaniWeb is the slowest thing I encounter, due to the ads.

PC specs are the likely problem. Tell us RAM, CPU, etc.
Chkdsk and defrag are good tools also.
Any chance your HD is approaching capacity?

wasnt talking about ms office , was talkin about his workplace...anyway i dont like office 07 too..so u could say that, i use '03