Hi Ken, Gilio and Andrew; I appreciate all of your comments. Ken, I visited the comments you noted and it appears I should have enough graphic memory but... Andrew, I tried running the same slide show in 9a, and though it would show all of the slides without hesitation, it would not do the fades. I found that if I reduced the number of slides, the fades would work! I looked at the size of the pictures and found they were in the range of 8,000 KB to 1.5 MB. I'm in the process of reducing the size of the slides and will attempt to run the slide show without problems. I'll keep you posted on the results. Thanks to all for your responses. Dick W. P.S. to Ken: How do you keep track of all the info that is in this forum? You seem to be able to site earlier responses to just about any topic. Great Job!!