All,

Many of us have experienced that doing presentation does not always go
smoothly. It may be the laptop deciding to screw up everything, the
projector not synchronizing to the PC and much more. Even provided
equipment might not work as you are using PowerPoint 2003 animations
which just look like crap on the installed PowerPoint 2002.

To address this I created a small tool called "AutorunPresenter"
(http://udos.users.dolphinmap.net/apps/autorun_presenter.html).
AutorunPresenter is "installed" on an USB Stick (together with the
PP2003 Viewer) and provides the backup plan.

Just copy you presentations to the USB Stick and you're done.

If anything fails, just plug the USB Stick to an PC. AutorunPresenter
will start and present you a dialog with all Presentations on the USB
Stick. This dialog uses extra large fonts (to be readable from a few
meters distance). In addition you can use most presentation remote
controls to navigate through the dialog (w/o mouse and keyboard).

Once you found the presentation AutorunPresenter shows that presentation
- either with an installed PowerPoint 2003 or (of no PP is installed or
the PP version is older than 2003) with the PowerPoint Viewer.

This tool saved my life during various events during the last years. I
hope some of you find it useful.

CU,

Udo