subject: Recovering Corrupt Presentation In Powerpoint 2000 [print this page] MS PowerPoint is an application from the MS Office product suite, which is used to create presentations using slides and other components. It is used by students, sales professionals, trainers for creating various presentations such as project reports, business proposals, training materials, etc. You can use various objects such as colors, texts, graphs, charts, animations, etc to make the presentations more interactive and interesting. However, at times the PowerPoint file may get corrupt owing to various reasons. In such cases, you should take appropriate corrective measures to resolve the situation. However, if you are unable to address the issue then you should use a third-party PowerPoint recovery software to recover powerpoint file.
Consider a scenario wherein you try to open a PowerPoint file that is created in PowerPoint 2000. You are unable to open the file. An error is displayed, that is:
Your system is low on virtual memory. To ensure that Windows runs properly, increase the size of your virtual memory paging file.
Cause:
The cause of the aforementioned error message is that the PowerPoint file has got corrupted and, thus, inaccessible. It may have got corrupt because of various reasons such as virus infection, human error, power outages, etc.
Resolution:
You can repair the corrupted PPT by:Dragging the presentation to the PowerPoint Program File.Double-clicking the PowerPoint presentation in Windows Explorer.Attempting to insert the slides of the corrupted presentation into a blank presentation.Trying to open the temporary file (.tmp) version of the presentation and then renaming the TMP version to its PPT version.Trying to open the corrupt presentation in PowerPoint Viewer.Moving the file to another computer.Moving the file to another disk.Running the ScanDisk utility to fix and repair cross linked files and to convert the lost fragments to file.However, if you are unable to resolve the issue even after following the mentioned methods then you should use a third party PPT recovery software to recover PowerPoint presentation. Such tools are read-only in nature and do not overwrite the original file while scanning it.by: Eric Justice
