Slide show?

I had this problem and another, after failing to find a solution to this I
moved on to the next and it fixed both my problems. Problem I fixed was
Server Execution Faild, with a red "X" over the icon. This is what I
did....Simply run a command prompt as an administrator (right-click on it and
click "Open as Administrator") then enter the following command line:

net localgroup "Administrators" "NT Authority\Local Service" /add


"CJSM" wrote:

> Like others my slide show worked until today. The blank screen says "an error
> is preventing slide show from playing. I have Vista Business, about 30
> slides. What exactly do I do to make it work?

I Found A Fix for "an error is preventing this slide show from playing"
error in Vista. When you go into Personalization, open screen saver,
select Photo. Then go down and click on "Change power settings..."
Change to either Balanced or High Performance. You may also need to
change jpeg image file size to around 500Kb per image. (I image there
is a max size for the folder that you are using for you images, though
I am uncertain what it might me). The power change worked for me and my
photo screen saver is now working wonderfully.
Hope this works for all of you.
Kara


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Whooo-eee! Way to go. That worked for me. My issue was only when I used my
notebook on battery: then I couldn't get slide show to work from within a
folder or from the screensaver. I got that ubiquitous error. Mind you, now my
battery will drain super fast. But I'll only use the slide show feature when
I can access a power source fairly soon. Thanks very much for this, kcarmine.

And Brrnese, your point about valid shortcuts sounds like something to watch
for in future - thank you.

"kcarmine" wrote:

>
> I Found A Fix for "an error is preventing this slide show from playing"
> error in Vista. When you go into Personalization, open screen saver,
> select Photo. Then go down and click on "Change power settings..."
> Change to either Balanced or High Performance. You may also need to
> change jpeg image file size to around 500Kb per image. (I image there
> is a max size for the folder that you are using for you images, though
> I am uncertain what it might me). The power change worked for me and my
> photo screen saver is now working wonderfully.
> Hope this works for all of you.
> Kara
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(Thought I'd submitted this, but that annoying survey screen thwarted me I
think....)

Kara, thanks for the idea about power: that worked for me, because my issue
was only when i was operating off battery on my notebook. And Kathie, I think
your shortcut point's a good one to watch for as well: thanks.

- Linda

"kcarmine" wrote:

>
> I Found A Fix for "an error is preventing this slide show from playing"
> error in Vista. When you go into Personalization, open screen saver,
> select Photo. Then go down and click on "Change power settings..."
> Change to either Balanced or High Performance. You may also need to
> change jpeg image file size to around 500Kb per image. (I image there
> is a max size for the folder that you are using for you images, though
> I am uncertain what it might me). The power change worked for me and my
> photo screen saver is now working wonderfully.
> Hope this works for all of you.
> Kara
>
>
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No, because sometimes mine works and sometimes it doesn't. I have a few
video files, and the screen saver even plays the video files, which is cool,
it just doesn't work consistently.

"Cal Bear '66" wrote:

> If you have any movie files in the folder, it will fail. You have to remove any
> video files from the folder you are using for the slide show.
>
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> "CJSM" <CJSM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:98A014EC-1330-4D5A-B002-C319CD656689@microsoft.com...
> > Like others my slide show worked until today. The blank screen says "an error
> > is preventing slide show from playing. I have Vista Business, about 30
> > slides. What exactly do I do to make it work?
>
>

Tried that, the error message disappeared, but now my screen saver is merely
blank, still not showing pictures.

"Kotig" wrote:

> I had this problem and another, after failing to find a solution to this I
> moved on to the next and it fixed both my problems. Problem I fixed was
> Server Execution Faild, with a red "X" over the icon. This is what I
> did....Simply run a command prompt as an administrator (right-click on it and
> click "Open as Administrator") then enter the following command line:
>
> net localgroup "Administrators" "NT Authority\Local Service" /add
>

I had the same problem I just removed the "read only" attributes of the
pictures folder I was using. Note that in my computer the folder is on a
separate physical disk in my computer. Also, each one of the picture
files I have is at least 12MB in size. I do not think that size matters.

I have not made any other changes to my computer and this worked.

regards
Z


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