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thanks i am not updating anything - don't worry i deleted all folders relating to pte (all versions), took out all registry references, rebooted and installed - same issue i am going to have to come back to this in a few days - while I am trying to correct this problem my work is piling up on me!!

lemme read thru these and try some things out - just didn't want anyone to think I was ignoring their advice! running xp version 2002 (old, yes, but I don't like upgrading things... can you see why?)

thank you so much - I tried all those and when you said install to another drive I thought I'd have a winner but same thing i can't imagine something could have corrupted the actual pte program because I tried different versions

I noticed today when I downloaded and ran the upgrade - it installs and then when I try to run it it gives the infamous "PicturesToExe.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close..." I uninstalled all versions, installed 6.0 again and same problem - uninstalled that and rebooted and re-installed 6.5, same problem it's not hanging anywhere it says this as soon as you click to open the program i have the same system I have been working on for 3 years and have run p2e just fine until now...

I may just have to use an action to put on a bigger canvas it is just irritating as I used to drop my images and save and create a show - matter of minutes i like the new version because I can create shows for the web...

I REALLY appreciate you taking the time to help me however, when I do that, comments and navigation are shrunk down to fit on a 500px space rather than a 1078px space and are completely covered by vertical slides it is a work around but not the same functionality at all (that is a frustration with the software, not you btw)

The images on my slides are 500px wide (or tall) lets say - same resolution but some are landscape, some portrait in previous versions you would select "original" for the mode and they would all stay in orginal format/size (400x500 or 500x400) and it was a universal setting Now they either fit to screen meaning they stretch to become the width of the slide or I have to go into "size/position in pixels" and put "size" at 100% to maintain original height and width for each individual slide if I adjust just the size of the slide itself it does not accomodate both landscape and portrait sizes AND it messes up the comment and navigation sections as well

well not that much work until you do it about a 1000 times especially frustrating when this functionality was in the last few version of the software - strange to make new versions of software with more work for the end user

Is there a way to do this and apply it to all slides? I have to go 4 steps to do this for every individual slide? and I do this for every show I make (about 3 a week)...

this has happened to me as well most of my shows expire, but one that I tested well after the expiration date still played, checked dates and everything (mine was set to 5 days, not a certain date) but the exe file date was way more than 5 days previous I am now wondering how many other times that happened and am still not sure how to know whether one will work or not... any information is appreciated!