- 1). Launch PowerPoint and open your presentation.
- 2). Review the slides in your presentation. Delete audio and video files that are not essential to conveying your message during your presentation. Also, use high-resolution files sparingly. Multimedia files are effective during a presentation. Nevertheless, too many multimedia files in your presentation slow PowerPoint considerably.
- 3). Compress your media files and make them smaller. Click "File" on the ribbon bar, then "Info." Click the "Compress Media." Select a quality setting. To make files smaller yet preserve overall quality of media files, click "Presentation Quality." For better performance, though, select either the "Internet Quality" or "Low Quality" setting options.
- 4). Run "Disk Cleanup" on your computer before running your PowerPoint presentation. Click "Start," "All Programs," "Accessories," "System Tools," then "Disk Cleanup." Select the "C:\" drive and click "OK." Follow the on-screen prompts to delete temporary files from your computer, which can affect performance during PowerPoint presentations.
- 5). Improve PowerPoint performance on laptops and older computers by enabling the hardware acceleration option. To enable hardware acceleration, click "File," then "Options." Click "Advanced" and ensure there no check mark appears in the box next to the "Disable hardware graphics acceleration."
- 6). Speed up graphics acceleration in slower computers by using a lower-resolution setting. In PowerPoint, click the "Slide Show" tab. Click "Resolution" in drop-down list in the "Monitors" are of the tab. Click and select "640x480 (Fastest, Lowest Fidelity)."
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