novice needs help

[julie]

can anyone help me please before i go mad. Firstly i have purchased the buisness licence because i want to give cd's to customers. I have sucessfully made a couple of cd's but cannot get them to run on their computers only on mine. It just opens up a box and says Windows needs to know which program created this file to open it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. What am i doing wrong.........or have i purchased the wrong licence

thanks in advance Julie

[Alan Lyons]

Hi Julie,

Welcome to the forum The file which runs the show is an .exe file and therefor should run without any bother. Are you trying to open the Project file .pte? This file is generated when you "save/save as..." and is only a file of commands ect, to help P2E assemble the show. To get an .exe file you need to use the "Create/create as.." option from the file menu. You should then have a click and run file.

Hope this solves the problem,

Regards,

Alan

[julie]

Hi Alan Thanks for the reply. Yes i am saving with the create as.. i save it first with save as and then in file menu with create a slide show as....it plays fine on my computer but if i save it to disk to play on someone elses pc it opens up the box as i explaine earlier. I am using Nero to burn the disk ( as a data disk)

[mannybr2003]

I am using Nero to burn the disk

It doesn't matter whether you are using Nero or any other burner program. The important thing is for your slideshow.exe to run from CD when you insert it on the CD compartment. There are 2 procedures I learned. One from the previous postings here, and one from experience.

I prefer the one I learned from experience because in some instances the one I learned here didn't work.

First you need to open your text editor like Notepad.exe.

Then use that program to create your Autorun.inf. How?

Just after opening your Notepad.exe and choosing New, even without typing a word, you can save it as Autorun.inf. For now do it. Then don't close your Notepad yet. This is the time you will put the commands that Windows expects to find in Autorun.inf. when it sees the CD inserted in the CD compartment.

This Autorun.inf file should contain something like:

[autorun]

OPEN=slideshow.exe

ICON=slideshow.exe,0

Now you can save for the final time the file as Autorun.inf. Then close it. Make sure you put a copy of this file in the Root Directory of your CD.

The next thing is to create a DATA.TXT file using your Notepad again. Type either of the ff. command:

<SrcDir>\Slideshow.exe

or

<SrcDrive>\Slideshow.exe

For me, of these two, I prefer the second one, because there are times my computers don't work when I use the first one, <SrcDir>. So I used <ScrDrive> instead.

I am presuming that you named your slideshow as Slideshow.exe. But you can use the name you choose for your slideshow. If you want to make sure your slideshow.exe will work, you just name it without any blank or space in between so that it is a one word filename exe, ei. filename.exe to avoid any further unforeseen operation problems later in other pc's.

Also make sure you put a copy of your DATA.TXT in the root directory of your CD.

As to the MP3's or MID's, you don't need to copy them to the CD because the PTE program makes a copy of them inside your slideshow. However, you will need to copy any utility file (like other .EXE) that you want to work with your compiled show. Programs you want to enhance your show like those you download from Boxig's site (such programs for adding extra vocal messages). If you include Boxig's audio player, you will also need to make a copy of his player as well as the MP3 or WAV or Imgaes (JPG, GIF) you used in your show into the CD you are putting your show.

I hope the story is complete.

[Clive Timmons]

Hi Julie,

The only time I ever saw this message was when some fool ( ME ) tried to run it on a Mac and as I have since learnt through this forum Mac's do not run .EXE type files But you already Know This RIGHT? Keep the faith you have come to the right place to get your difficulty sorted some of the best brains on the web in this Forum Keep on rocking ,

Regards Clive