Speckled Hen

I have now solved the problem. It was as suggested connected to my anti virus/firewall (AVG). The sequences would still not run even with them turned off beacause apperently there are still files lurking in the background that identify 'Potentially Unwanted Programmes' and accordingly block the opening of the exe file. There is a facility to create exceptions to these PUPs which just takes a second or two and then all seems to work OK. Wouldn't life be much simpler if the antivirus 'warned of the PUP' when opening the file and then give you the option of creating an exception rather than freezing the whole system. Thanks to those who have offered suggestions Perhaps this solution could be filed somewhere in the forum in case others experience similar frustrating problems in future. Tony

Thank You for that but I feel we are at cross purposes. I would have thought if it was a driver issue then the sequence would not work in preview. Perhaps I have not explained the problem fully. When I say the sequence will not run I do not mean it will not run properly but not even start I have even tried creating a single image show with no audio but it never gets past the blank slide and usually not even that far. As soon as I try to open the exe file there seems to be a conflict and everything freezes up and I mean everything. It may even still be on the windows folder screen containing the slide shows. Not even Ctrl Alt Del will do anything.It simply does not move either from the blank slide or the windows folder. I have to resort to unplugging. There must be a conflict between something in the PTE files, when an exe file is created, and something on my PC. Everything else works OK. The exe files will even run on an old PC.with 'old drivers' Shows created with Pro Show Producer also work fine. Thanks again

The shows that I was trying to run were created in May 2008 with whatever the latest version was then and another created May 2010 with the again the latest version Your second question is I am afraid too technical for me. I have 3gb of RAM. The shows however have worked in the past. Windows XP on all of them. I might add that although they 'freeze' sometimes the sound track plays like a stuck record and no images are shown Thanks for your interest.

I have created slide shows with various versions of PTE and although they work perfectly in preview when the show are created (including old shows) they will not run. My PC freezes when I try to run a show and no attempts to unfreeze it will work. The shows run ok on other PC's including my laptop so I presume it is a 'gremlin' in my main PC. Do you have any suggestions please? Thanks