Autorun page Powerpoint problem

[mbaker1991]

Hi,
I have created an autorun page on a cd that comes up when you insert it, it is a html file, and on it I have placed a link to a powerpoint presentation. The autorun page comes up in internet explorer which is fine but when I click on the link to the Powerpoint, it also comes up in IE instead of coming up in Powerpoint.. if that makes sense. Can anyone help?
Thanks.
Matt

[oracle128]

This is because Internet Explorer takes control and embeds the slide inside it. If you want to force it to open in PowerPoint, you will need to make a command line to open the PPT (it can't be done with a HTML link). For example instead of a web page opening on autorun, you could make the autorun command as follows:
OPEN=cmd.exe /c start file.ppt
Which will open the presentation in the default program for opening PPT files (which should be PowerPoint).

You could also maybe bundle the PowerPoint Viewer (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=048dc840-14e1-467d-8dca-19d2a8fd7485&displaylang=en), and write an autorun command to open the PPT with the viewer.
OPEN=ppviewer\viewer.exe file.ppt(Assuming the PP Viewer exe is called viewer.exe, I don't know what it's called because I've never used it.)