Supercharge your PowerPoint productivity with
Supercharge your PPT Productivity with PPTools - Click here to learn more.

Proud member of

PPTools

Image Export converts PowerPoint slides to high-quality images.

PPT2HTML exports HTML even from PowerPoint 2010 and 2013, gives you full control of PowerPoint HTML output, helps meet Section 508 accessibility requirements

Merge Excel data into PowerPoint presentations to create certificates, awards presentations, personalized presentations and more

Resize your presentations quickly and without distortion

Language Selector switches the text in your presentation from one language to another

FixLinks prevents broken links when you distribute PowerPoint presentations

Shape Styles brings styles to PowerPoint. Apply complex formatting with a single click.

PowerPoint Viewer for Mac keeps insisting on being reinstalled

Problem: Every time you start PowerPoint Viewer for Mac, it attempts to reinstall itself. Or Internet Explorer 5 keeps trying to install itself when you start it.

This is a known issue with the interaction between Internet Explorer 5 and the PowerPoint Viewer. They interfere with one aother's files, forcing the First Run Installation (FRI) to be triggered.

The only workaround is to not use Internet Explorer 5 and the PowerPoint Viewer on the same machine. If that's unacceptable, then you just have to live with the frequent triggering of FRI for IE and/or the PowerPoint Viewer. Since both programs are already installed, it's likely that you can cancel the request to reinstall, but we've no way of testing this here at PPT FAQ Central. If you try this, would you let us know how it works out? Thanks!


Did this solve your problem? If so, please consider supporting the PPT FAQ with a small PayPal donation.
Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape Contents © 1995 - 2022 Stephen Rindsberg, Rindsberg Photography, Inc. and members of the MS PowerPoint MVP team. You may link to this page but any form of unauthorized reproduction of this page's contents is expressly forbidden.

Supercharge your PPT Productivity with PPTools

content authoring & site maintenance by
Friday, the automatic faq maker (logo)
Friday - The Automatic FAQ Maker

PowerPoint Viewer for Mac keeps insisting on being reinstalled
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00110_PowerPoint_Viewer_for_Mac_keeps_insisting_on_being_reinstalled.htm
Last update 07 June, 2011
Created: