ALBERT BURROWS

Colin Interesting to read your comment on HP/COMPAQ service. I can only add that they have a factory ten miles from where I stay. So perhaps I may have been able to camp on their doorstep in the event of a fault developing! Albert

Brian Thank you very much for all the information you have supplied. I am not looking forward too having to deal with Dell who supplied the laptop. I am now wishing I had gone too to a retailer with whom I could have had face to face discussion. I will gather all the information you have given me with regard too memory leak problem before I contact them. Best wishes Albert

Hello Brian Since I last reported I bought some new CD's (Memorex) with which to conduct some more tests. On Saturday I recorded the shows that I still had stored on my pen drive on the desk top with XP installed. All ran correctly on the desktop however on playing them on the Laptop running Vista intermittent errors occurred. Shows which closed correctly would fail when repeated. I then recorded the shows on the laptop running Vista again from those stored on the pen drive. The results where much the same as previous. In all I played both discs around five or six times. That's an awful lot of repetition of the same ten shows. On Sunday I decided to record the same shows onto a DVD and in addition included another five shows which I stored on my desktop and had never been recorded before. So now I had fifteen shows on the disc with which to try to find a solution. After eleven shows ran successfully I was beginning to feel optimistic. Things went steadily downhill from there as show after show failed to respond on closing Several playings of the DVD displayed the same intermittent problem. Today I decided I would have one more try. But before trying the disc I decided to play the show from the pen drive which had played correctly previously as I told you. I could hardly believe what I was seeing when those shows also played with intermittent errors. How can something that had previously played properly start to show the same problem that had caused the problem in the first place? A phone call to my daughter asking for a loan of her laptop which has XP installed was a last resort. So tonight I have been playing all the CD's,DVD, and pen drive and all ran successfully. Where it leaves me I don't know other than as you suggested previously I have faulty computer. You did mention Vista having problems with memory leak which is not something that I know anything about. To think that all I wanted was something to be able to make my shows portable. It's enough to make me get out my slide av kit again. If only it wasn't so heavy to cart around. Regards Albert ,

Hello Brian The suggestions that you make regarding the CD had crossed my mind, now you have confirmed what I thought may be a worthwhile exercise. I will now go ahead and do it. At present all I can confirm is the CD is not a rewritable one, though it may be of dubious quality (Tesco) I had only ever used them for recording music before this time. Anything to stretch the pension further!I intend to get some new discs of superior quality for the trial. Should they prove to run ok I will repeat it using the original discs to see if the problem arises again with them. Whatever the outcome I will pass on the information too you in the hope that it will be of some value in future. It may be a few days before I get back too you. In the meantime it's a walk into town for some discs. Regards Albert

Hi Brian You have cracked it! I followed your instructions with the memory stick and everything I played from it was fine. I copied six shows from my pc that had never been copied to a CD previously onto the memory stick and all ran without any problem. I then copied from the hard drive on the laptop the shows that had caused me problems.Again no problem. So very many thanks for all your help. I had noticed when reading the forum topics previously how helpful the members were, so willing too share their knowledge with each other. You are the proof of all that. I just hope I get this reply off properly this time! Best wishes. Albert

Hi Brian Sorry I got my reply too your last post all wrong. I hope with the help of the attachment I will get it right this time. I have just returned from town with a 1gb memory stick. Whether it resolves the problem or not I will have a very useful gadget for future use. It is a glorious day here in Greenock and I enjoyed my walk into town we have not had many this year too enjoy. So I am now getting my camera out and heading for our nature trail which is close by. On return I will set about the trying out the memory stick

Hi Brian I have followed your very clear instructions and played my shows from the hard drive on my laptop. I am afraid that the problem still arises. I played the shows a number of times with varying results. Some shows that closed properly would fail to close when repeated. Then when played again would close correctly and so it went on with other shows showing the same intermittent failure to close. No pattern too the problem emerged from what I observed. I did learn from your instructions how to copy files, so some good came out of the exercise! So many thanks for that alone. Regards Albert

Hello Everyone When I first contacted the forum looking for advice I didn't realise what a discussion would ensue. I have been reading the correspondence relating too it but have to admit that I don't have the knowledge to really follow it in practice. I did try Igor's? suggestion of updating my graphic card driver which was something new too me. Having updated the driver I then played the CD that I was having problems with. I have eight shows on the CD and on running seven of them consecutively without any problem I was quite relieved, until I ran the last one and back came the problem failing to close. The following day I repeated the procedure this time the results were intermittent failures. So my problem still exists. All of my show have been created on Version 4.48 or earlier on my PC running XP and ran perfectly. I have now ran the CD on friend's laptop with XP installed and all ran without any problem. The laptop specification requested is: Dell Inspiron 6400 dual core processorT500 1.60GHz 1024mb 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM 256mb Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 Turbo Cache Vista Home Premium I only know these details by consulting the invoice that came with the laptop! I see from Peter's latest input that he is also having intermittent problems. So now I have to find someone with computer savvy to assist me in putting the information available into practice. Thanks to all of you who have taken the time to provide an answer. What a can of worms I seem to have opened and all because I thought I might be alone with this problem Thanks again Albert

Hello Peter Thanks for your reply. I feel better now that I know someone else shares my problem of shows not closing in Vista. At least I don't feel so frustrated at my knowledge of computing. Now I hope that some of those experts on the forum whom I envy for their knowledge might come up with a solution. I really appreciate the information that is passed between members even though most of it is lost on me!They really are the most friendly and unselfish enthusiasts on any forum that I have come across. Albert

Hi I am fairly new to the world of AV but have managed to create some shows which ran well on my PC which has XP installed. I bought a laptop so that I could show them away from. It has Vista Premium installed I now find that when a show is finished it fails to close down and message tells me that the program is not responding. I was convinced that it was something I was doing wrong but recently found someone else with the same problem. So the question arises. Are we both doing something wrong as neither of us is particularly knowledgeable about computers? Or is there a problem with Vista running Pictures to Exe. Any advice would be appreciated. Even it is too tell us we are a couple of old idiots! Thanks Albert B

Hi Lin Have just run your show on my new laptop. With Vista Home Premium. and Nvidia Ge Force 7300. I thought it ran quite beautifully even allowing for the fact that I am a complete novice. I had to get someone else to show me how to find out about the card! Shows how knowledgable I am. I hope this little bit of information will at least be helpful for you. Many thanks for your past advice Best wishes Sutherland

I have been putting a few shows together with images from a digital camera. The whole process is new too me but I have been quite pleased with the results I have obtained. Nothing like those I have seen on the forum downloads but I have to start somewhere! Now I would like to try to convert some of my slide av shows that I have collected over a long time. I am not sure about the resolution used when scanning for use in Pictures to Exe. I have a Canon film scanner with a maximum resolution of 4000. Is there any advantage in scanning at this setting over one of 1000. As you will have guessed I am pretty new to this digital era I am coming too late in life to it but enjoying it just the same. So any help in getting my slide on to Pictures to Exe would be appreciated. I am using version 4.48 version I am afraid version 5 is way out of my league. I had enough trouble getting the hang with what I have! No doubt there are experts out there wondering what I have been doing all this time. As I said digital has come a little late in life for me so spare a thought for those of us struggling with but enjoying the new media. I do enjoy reading the comments even if most of it is way over my head! Thanks to all who took the time too read my rambling