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Percival P. Cassidy
May 15, 2012, 10:51:24 AM5/15/12
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A few weeks ago I took my laptop to church so that somebody could do a
PowerPoint presentation that they had on a thumb drive. I had already
used a thumb drive with it, so it already had drivers in place, but the
presenter had a different brand of thumb drive, and XP insisted that it
had to find a new driver. Why? Isn't a thumb drive a thumb drive?
Perce
PowerPoint presentation that they had on a thumb drive. I had already
used a thumb drive with it, so it already had drivers in place, but the
presenter had a different brand of thumb drive, and XP insisted that it
had to find a new driver. Why? Isn't a thumb drive a thumb drive?
Perce
kelly
May 21, 2012, 3:23:28 AM5/21/12
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extention .pps or .ppsx? If it was the latter then an addon from
Microsoft is needed to upgrade.
Download from MS site "MS Office File format converters".
It worked for me in a similar situation.
Percival P. Cassidy
May 21, 2012, 3:55:55 PM5/21/12
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On 05/21/12 03:23 am, kelly wrote:
> On May 15, 4:51 pm, "Percival P. Cassidy"<Nob...@NotMyISP.net> wrote:
>> A few weeks ago I took my laptop to church so that somebody could do a
>> PowerPoint presentation that they had on a thumb drive. I had already
>> used a thumb drive with it, so it already had drivers in place, but the
>> presenter had a different brand of thumb drive, and XP insisted that it
>> had to find a new driver. Why? Isn't a thumb drive a thumb drive?
> On May 15, 4:51 pm, "Percival P. Cassidy"<Nob...@NotMyISP.net> wrote:
>> A few weeks ago I took my laptop to church so that somebody could do a
>> PowerPoint presentation that they had on a thumb drive. I had already
>> used a thumb drive with it, so it already had drivers in place, but the
>> presenter had a different brand of thumb drive, and XP insisted that it
>> had to find a new driver. Why? Isn't a thumb drive a thumb drive?
> Could be a different version of PowerPoint. Was the presentation's
> extention .pps or .ppsx? If it was the latter then an addon from
> Microsoft is needed to upgrade.
> Download from MS site "MS Office File format converters".
> It worked for me in a similar situation.
It didn't know what was on the thumb drive until it had downloaded a
> extention .pps or .ppsx? If it was the latter then an addon from
> Microsoft is needed to upgrade.
> Download from MS site "MS Office File format converters".
> It worked for me in a similar situation.
driver specific to that brand of thumb drive; I no longer recall what brand.
Perce
philo
May 28, 2012, 9:15:17 AM5/28/12
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not always follow the same standards
Most of them are recognized with no problem...but not all
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