Cannot open Powerpoint files in Outlook Express

I cannot open a .pps file extension to an email in OE6. I followed the
instructions on the MS web page. I completely uninstalled the viewer,
loaded down a new copy of pps viewer 2003, and installed it. When I run
PPSFIX I get "Invalid root in reg key
HKCR\powerpointviewer.slideshow.11\shell\open\command". When I try to
manually add an OPEN command to the reg, it seems to go ok but then it
reverts back to only a PRINT and SHOW command. When I try to change the
SHOW to an OPEN, it just changes back. I DO have administrative authority
and I have tried to change it in Safe Mode but it allways changes back.
PPS files on my hard drive open just fine, but not in OE. Why did the
Powerpoint
install NOT add an OPEN command?? Why can't MS fix this??? Any ideas what I
can do to make it work?? Frank

"Frank" <fjmet RemoveThis @amisp.net> wrote in message
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>I cannot open a .pps file extension to an email in OE6. I followed the
> instructions on the MS web page. I completely uninstalled the viewer,
> loaded down a new copy of pps viewer 2003, and installed it. When I run
> PPSFIX I get "Invalid root in reg key
> HKCR\powerpointviewer.slideshow.11\shell\open\command". When I try to
> manually add an OPEN command to the reg, it seems to go ok but then it
> reverts back to only a PRINT and SHOW command. When I try to change the
> SHOW to an OPEN, it just changes back. I DO have administrative authority
> and I have tried to change it in Safe Mode but it allways changes back.
> PPS files on my hard drive open just fine, but not in OE. Why did the
> Powerpoint
> install NOT add an OPEN command?? Why can't MS fix this??? Any ideas what
> I
> can do to make it work?? Frank


Frank:
It's a bug in OE6 apparently resulting from one or another recent MS
critical update. There's a simple fix for this that you can obtain from
Ramesh Srinivasan's web site at http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ppsopen.htm
Anna