Ok, so i've heard people putting this topic out a few times, but i'm putting my own out, to help condense the issue for everyone, as people have still talked about this issue in topics that are 2years old... fail microsoft..

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Topic I originally worked with: http://www.overclock.net/t/1256467/ms-office-2010-ppt-stupid-slow

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System Specs:

i7, 920 @ 3.74ghz. 30 celcius idle, 50-55 celcius when maxed, on air.

Ati 5770 1gb gddr5 (original), Bought new... 6870 ati, 1gb gddr5...

Had 6gb ddr3, now 12gb ddr3.

Windows 7 ulti 64bit, installed on Sata 3 (6.0) 1tb 64mb cache hdd. (WD)

16gb SDHC Class 10 = Readyboost,

4gb Page file (on separate 1tb hdd, also sata III (6.0) 64mb cache, (WD)

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When loading ppt, it's extremely slow loading any text, backgrounds, non backgrounds, etc. I load the tile view, it takes several mins. I switch to editor view, and bam, reloads the tiles and the main page...

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When I type, it fills in slowly, or not at all, then stutter loads it...

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This is a fresh install of office 2010 pro plus, fresh install of win7 ulti 64bit, sp1.

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I use ppt weekly, for a church, I used office 2007, and it was instant, pure bliss, no hassle, worked like a charm, everything was in realtime, or faster... (if tweaked)...

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I use ppt now, 2010, and it changed my work times to make their ppt from 30-45mins, to 3-4hrs...

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I'd like to regain some of that time, to truly use office 2010.

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I made a video of it, via my galaxy nexus, http://www.facebook.com/v/10151739996880217  , and it shows task manager & ppt side by side.

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I've tried printer default change, tried going no background, tried disabling AERO. Have tried the registry del of

-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word "data" deletion...

I'm fed up with this.

I do not want to deal with this issue much longer. I'm moderately skilled @ regedit, I can navigate, make sense of it for the most part. I am willing to manually tweak it, in order to "force" fix this issue.

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I'd like to toss 6gb's of ram directly into ms office, just to make it work... load it all once (slow) then make it sing the rest of the way...

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I need to use backgrounds, jpg's, etc. I need to use different fonts, it's apart of the process.. If i'm limited to NOTEPAD configurations for ppt... then microsoft can... (enter choice phrase of negativity here)....

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Please, if anyone has a registry hack, adjustment, etc... i'm more then willing to try...

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Please...anyone...

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I've gone and manually recreated the ppt myself, and no change...

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Please help...

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- RmLeLoup

Hello RmLeLoup,

I know you noticed a PowerPoint slow loading issue on a new installed Office 2010/Win7.

I would like to know if the issue only occurs on one specific PPT file or all file especially new created one? It will help us determine if the issue is about the application or the PPT file itself.

Thanks,

Hello RmLeLoup,

I know you noticed a PowerPoint slow loading issue on a new installed Office 2010/Win7.

I would like to know if the issue only occurs on one specific PPT file or all file especially new created one? It will help us determine if the issue is about the application or the PPT file itself.

T

I'm an IT professional. I have the same problem. Nobody has figured out a fix and MS won't admit to the problem. I get the feeling they know what going on put there are some fundamental issues in their programming and is no easy fix. So why not just pretend it doesn't exist. What do you expect from a multi-billion dollar corporation. I knew I should have stayed on 2007 :) 

If I figure anything out I will let you know. 

Has anyone found out the reason for this or if MS have acknowledged it?

I'm seeing it on multiple machines and is caused by a scaled down .png image in the master slide, once the image is resized properly the issue goes away.

I found a resolution that seems to work. It's extremely irritating to me that Microsoft has no documentation for this, but for my users, this works:

On the left-hand side of the powerpoint presentation, how small are your preview slides? If they are extremely small, (even if they were small and then you've hidden the view), the presentation completely chokes. If you make the preview slides bigger by sliding the separation bar toward the right, then it seems to speed up the presentation. You can even hide the preview after you've made the slides bigger and it still works.

I know this sounds a little shaky, but I've been working on this issue for a couple of days with different presentations, and this is the resolution I've been able to make work on all of them.

I hope this helps!