Microsoft KB Archive/111925

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PowerPoint 4.0 FastTips: General Setup Questions & Answers
Last reviewed: March 28, 1997

Article ID: Q111925

4.00 4.00a 4.00c WINDOWS kbsetup

The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows, versions 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c

SUMMARY
The following is the complete contents of the FastTips Questions and Answers article titled &quot;Q111925: General Setup Questions & Answers.&quot; Q111925 is part of the FastTips Questions and Answers section for Microsoft PowerPoint version 4.0 for Windows.

Microsoft(R) Product Support Services Application Note (Text File) Q111925: General Setup Questions & Answers Revision Date: 08/94 6 Pages, No Disk The following information applies to Microsoft PowerPoint versions 4.0, 4.0a, 4.0c for Windows.


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1. Q. How much free disk space do I need to install Microsoft PowerPoint 4.0 for Windows?

A. PowerPoint 4.0 for Windows comes with many different components and several installation options. If you choose the Complete installation option, all components are installed. A Complete installation requires 35 megabytes. The Typical installation requires 17 megabytes and the Laptop (Minimum) installation requires at least 10 megabytes. When using the Custom installation, you can specify exactly which components you want to install or omit. The space required for a Custom installation varies widely, depending on which options you choose.

For a Workstation installation, you need at least 2 megabytes available on your local hard drive or in your user directory, but you may need more depending on how your system administrator configured the administrator's installation. If you want to      perform an administrator's installation on a network file server or a shared directory, you need 40 megabytes of available space on the file server or in the shared directory.

2. Q. What are the system requirements for installing PowerPoint 4.0 for Windows?

A. To install and use PowerPoint 4.0 for Windows successfully, you must have the following:

- A personal computer with a 386 processor or higher (PowerPoint         4.0 runs only in 386 enhanced mode)

- The MS-DOS operating system version 3.1 or higher (MS-DOS         version 5.0 or later is recommended)

- The Microsoft Windows operating system version 3.1 or later

- Four megabytes of memory (8 megabytes recommended)

- A hard disk with adequate disk space available (10 to 40         megabytes, depending on the type of installation you choose)

- A high-density floppy disk drive (either a 3.5-inch, 1.44         megabyte, or a 5.25-inch, 1.2 megabyte drive)

- A VGA, XGA, or any video adapter supported by Microsoft Windows version 3.1 or later (except CGA, EGA, and Hercules         monochrome); a 256-color video adapter and compatible Microsoft Windows 3.1 driver is recommended

- A Microsoft mouse or compatible pointing device

3. Q. While installing PowerPoint 4.0, Setup did not ask me for disk 9 or 10. Why?

A. Some disks are not used when a Typical installation is chosen. PowerPoint Setup defaults to a Typical installation unless you select a different type, such as Custom/Complete or Minimum. A      list of components that did or did not get installed can be found in the &quot;Custom And Network Installations&quot; section of the PowerPoint Readme Help file.

4. Q. I have Microsoft Office 4.0, and just received the Microsoft Office 4.2 upgrade. Is there anything I need to know about the upgrade installation?

A. If you are on a stand-alone system, you can install Microsoft Office 4.2 directly over the pre-existing version of Microsoft Office without losing your data files. However, if Microsoft Office 4.0 is installed on a         network, the upgrade package will not permit you to          perform an administrative setup (that is, using the          SETUP/A command) into the same directory.

To upgrade from Microsoft Office 4.0 to Office 4.2 on a network, follow this three-step procedure:

1. Install Office 4.2 into a different shared location than Office 4.0.

NOTE: This means the MSAPPS directory should also be         installed to a different location than the MSAPPS directory that was installed with Microsoft Office 4.0.

2. Have everyone using Microsoft Office 4.0 from the network server, upgrade to the new Office 4.2 installation.

3. When all upgrades are completed, delete the 4.0 version of         Microsoft Office from its shared location.

5. Q. How do I show my PowerPoint presentation on a computer that doesn't have PowerPoint 4.0 installed?

A. You can view PowerPoint presentations without installing PowerPoint. You simply need to install 16-bit PowerPoint Viewer on the machine where you plan to run the slide show. The PowerPoint Viewer disk is the last disk in the set of         PowerPoint disks. It contains a special Setup program for the installation of just the PowerPoint Viewer.

To install just the PowerPoint Viewer, using a copy of         the PowerPoint Viewer disk, start the Viewer Setup program. That is, choose Run from the File menu, type &quot;a:vsetup&quot; (without the quotation marks) and press ENTER.

If your presentations contain Media Player objects (such as video      or sound), you may also need to install Microsoft Media Player when using the PowerPoint Viewer.

6. Q. My presentation contains Media Player objects, but the computer on which I'm showing my presentation does not have Media Player installed. What do I do?

NOTE: The following does not apply to PowerPoint version 4.0c. If you have PowerPoint 4.0c, order article Q116422 from the Microsoft PowerPoint FastTips Catalog. (To      determine your version of PowerPoint, choose About Microsoft       PowerPoint from the Help menu.)

A. Install PowerPoint Viewer and Media Player on the computer. You will need to bring copies of the PowerPoint Setup disk (which is      the first disk), and the PowerPoint Viewer disk (which is the       last disk). To install them, follow this three-step procedure:

1. Using the PowerPoint Setup disk, start the PowerPoint Setup program. That is, choose Run from the File menu and type &quot;a:setup&quot; (without the quotation marks) and press ENTER.

2. Follow the on-screen instructions. When asked what type of         installation you prefer, choose Custom/Complete.

3. Clear the check boxes for all options except for the PowerPoint Viewer and Media Player. Media Player is listed under Shared Applications. Choose Continue to finish the installation.

The PowerPoint Viewer and Media Player will now be available on      the machine where you plan to run your slide show.

7. Q. I did a complete installation of PowerPoint 4.0. How can I      uninstall components I don't use?

A. PowerPoint 4.0 includes a Setup utility that you can use to      modify your installation of PowerPoint. In this Setup utility, you can simply select the check boxes of those components you want to install, and clear the check boxes of those components you want to remove.

This Setup utility is not automatically installed, unless you have PowerPoint version 4.0c, even if you choose to perform a      Complete installation of PowerPoint. By default, it is omitted to      reduce the amount of disk space required for a Complete installation of PowerPoint.

If you run the PowerPoint Setup program again, it will detect that you have already installed PowerPoint on your system, and automatically go into the Maintenance mode of Setup that allows you to modify your installation.

8. Q. When trying to install PowerPoint 4.0, I get the error message &quot;ACMSetup caused a general protection fault in Module MSSETUP.DLL.&quot; How do I correct this so PowerPoint gets installed?

A. This error occurs when there are sections in the SYSTEM.INI file that are not separated by blank lines. If these lines get deleted or replaced with other entries during the installation of other programs, drivers, or utilities, you may experience this problem. In some configurations you may also experience a sharing violation when you choose Close to      get rid of the general protection fault error message. This only occurs on systems where a swap file is being used.

NOTE: Sometimes it may appear that there is a blank line, but the line actually contains one or more spaces. Inserting an additional blank line between sections ensures that there is at least one blank line as required.

To work around this problem, perform the following four-step procedure:

1. Edit the SYSTEM.INI file and add a blank line between each section. The first line in each section is enclosed in square brackets. The SYSTEM.INI file is a text file and can be edited in any standard text editor (such as         Windows Notepad).

2. Quit Windows.

3. Restart Windows.

4. Re-install PowerPoint 4.0. If you install the program to the same location, you should not have to delete any files before re-installing.

9. Q. If I have already installed PowerPoint, how can I install the PowerPoint Setup program so that I can easily customize my      installation and remove components I don't use?

A. To install the Setup program when you have already installed PowerPoint, follow this five-step procedure:

1. Run SETUP.EXE from the same location that you used to         install PowerPoint originally (either the floppy disks,          or a shared location on a network server).

2. When the PowerPoint maintenance installation dialog box appears, choose the Add/Remove button.

3. Select the Tools option, and then choose the Change Option button.

4. Select the check box next to the Setup option in the Tools dialog box, and then choose the OK button to return to the Maintenance Mode dialog box.

5. Make sure that the Tools option is selected, then choose OK to         continue with the rest of the maintenance mode installation process.

10. Q. When I try to install PowerPoint 4.0 for Windows, I receive a      message stating that there is insufficient disk space to complete the installation. How can I correct this problem?

A. A Complete installation requires 35 megabytes, the Typical installation requires 17 megabytes, and the Laptop (Minimum) installation, requires at least 10 megabytes. If you are sure that you have adequate free disk space for the type of      installation you selected, it may be that this error message is       appearing for a different reason. For example, if you have a      compressed hard drive, you may need up to 10 megabytes more hard disk space than usual, depending on the compression ratio used by your compression utility. When Setup checks for free disk space, it may display a false value because it is unable to      detect actual disk space available when the drive is compressed.