Summary: PPS files are PowerPoint presentations and you'll need a compatible viewer to view them. You may also need to create or repair the PPS file association.
Since installing Windows XP SP2, I have been unable to open .pps files. Short of downloading Open Office which carries a .pps access, is there any other way of regaining this access?
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PPS files are created by Microsoft Office PowerPoint. PPS files are a common distribution form for PowerPoint presentations and slide shows.
Since you indicated that SP2 broke this, I'll assume that this was working at some point.
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The first question is, do you have PowerPoint? If so, running Microsoft Office's Setup and selecting Repair should do it. If you have the PowerPoint viewer installed, then it may also have a repair option on its Setup. Either can be accessed through Control Panel, Add/Remove programs.
If you have neither of those, you can certainly download Microsoft's free PowerPoint Viewer.
And finally, if you have PowerPoint or its viewer installed, you may only need to re-assign the "pps" association. This article: How do I make something other than "Picture and FAX Viewer" the default for viewing pictures? discusses the steps to associate a ".jpg" file with a graphics program. Use the same steps to associate ".pps" with PowerPoint or with the PowerPoint Viewer.
Related:
PPS files still don't work even after I created an association - what do I do? PPS files seem to cause many people problems. We'll look at how to go about configuring your system to view PPS files.
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How do I make something other than "Picture and FAX Viewer" the default for viewing pictures? Windows Picture and FAX Viewer is the default application for viewing images under Windows. But there are many other programs out there as well.
How do I get Word documents on the web to show up in Word, rather than my browser? By default Word and other documents are displayed within IE rather than in an instance of the application. It's an easy setting to change, once found.
Article C2244 - December 22, 2004
I am running VISTA and cannot open PPS files attached to emails.Tried to save them to the desktop, but that didn't work either.
Message is:
Usage:
Posted by: Jim at November 5, 2009 5:49 PM/extract:path, extracts the content of the path folder
/quiet, runs the package in silent mode
/?, shows this held message
Using Vista, can't open .pps files. Downloaded and installed PPviewer 2007, associated the files and end up with a message that reads:
Usage:
/extract:path, extracts the content of the package to the path folder
/quiet, runs the package in silent mode
/?, shows this help message
followed others advice and tried to save to desktop but still won't open. Any help would be appreciated - this is so frustrating!
Posted by: Barb at November 24, 2009 12:45 PMusing windows 7 and windows live mail,cant open pps file attached to mail message unless i save file to documents and then open.
Posted by: Don Noren at December 4, 2009 10:06 AMI also am using Vista and can't open .pps files. I downloaded and installed PPviewer 2007, associated the files and end up with a message that reads:
Usage:
/extract:path, extracts the content of the package to the path folder
/quiet, runs the package in silent mode
/?, shows this help message
Please help
Posted by: Don at December 20, 2009 3:20 PMTo read pps files using Windows 7 and Windows Live Mail, do the following: Download and install "Open Office.org 3.1". Next, click on "Start", then in the shaded area, click on "Default Programs". On the window that opens, click on "Set your defauld program". A box opens with a list of programs, including Open Office.org. Click on Open Office.org to highlight it. Two options will then open. Click on the one that says "Set this program as default". Then click on OK in the lower right corner. You are finished and you can now read pps files. Happy reading.
Posted by: Herald Baughman at January 23, 2010 9:27 AM