With the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, MessagePoint cannot change any setting of the presentation. Also MessagePoint will correct mistakes whenever a presentation is not set to loop. If the user would forget to advance to a next slide automatically after a given number of seconds, then MessagePoint – when using the full PowerPoint – will correct that. MessagePoint will have more control over the presentation when the user use the full PowerPoint application. This might be a handy option when the screensaver presentation is a bit user-interactive with buttons and links to other documents or slides.Īnd finally the user has the option to run the PowerPoint presentation screensaver with the full Microsoft PowerPoint application (as part of the Microsoft Office installation) or with the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer. The user can disable mouse moves and keyboard strokes here in.
By default a screensaver is terminated whenever a mouse move or keyboard stroke is detected. There are few options on how to stop the running screensaver presentation. Also, this solution is a paid solution compared to the free Photos screen saver present on each computer. So, the effort after a change on the content is overwhelming on a company network. Unlike a document like a Word document of PowerPoint presentation, this is an application and will have warnings and anti-virus messages when installing it. The user has to generate a new EXE/SCR over and over and redistribute this file to each computer. The disadvantage is merely security-wise. The advantage compared to the Photos screen saver is that the user here will keep the PowerPoint animations and transitions as this export is more a movie instead of a series of images played back after each other. So each time that the user has an update on the content, then edit the presentation, regenerate the SCR file and redistribute the large SCR file again on the network. The SCR file contains a saved state of the presentation and can now be installed on each computer in the company network. The outcome of the conversion process is a large SCR file. Edit the PowerPoint presentation and the user will use the PPT2SCR conversion program that converts the PowerPoint into some kind of movie. There are PowerPoint-to-SCR conversion programs on the market and they mostly work like this. The user needs to know that the SCR file type is primarily associated with ‘Script’ and caused many trojans to enter the system. Also a SCR file is actually a renamed EXE application. So the Photos application of the previous method is running the Photos. SCR is the file extension for a screen saver.
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