.mov files from my mac won't play on windows

I created a PowerPoint CD with many .mov movies which I saved as a PowerPoint show (.pps). This powerpoint program will play on Windows but the movies will not play. Windows machine has QuickTime but Error message says I need QuickTime and H.264 decoder. Tried this with no success. Also tried QuickTimeAlt190. Help.

Hi karina, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
If no one is able to help in this forum, you may want to post your question in the iPhone forums: http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=201
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