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Ok, I guess that's the feature request then: let PteViewer function correctly as a stand-alone app.

Actually have to include "-FileName", as in in: "C:\Program Files\WnSoft PicturesToExe\5.5\PtePreview.exe" -FileName "c:\myslideshow.pte" The slide show does run, however, when invoked in this manner, there is no audio, and each slide has a watermark: "Created with unregistered version of PicturesToExe...". Is there another command line switch that should be included?

Yes, that's ok. If I wanted to give someone a copy of the slide show I only need to fire up PTE and create the exe. Here's why I think this is useful. I have thousands of high-resolution pictures and virtually all my music is stored in lossless format, mostly WMA. We take lots of pictures and I really like making slide shows set to music, which we view in our living room. PTE is great, but the resulting exe files include a copy of all the media (pictures and music) which is exactly what you want if you are going to store on removable media. But the resulting file is huge, and in essence, doubles the space requirements. Of course you can resize the images and re-encode the music, but this is a lot of work, and if I'm always just going to be viewing the slide shows at home, why not just use the project file as a script? Another advantage of this approach is that if I notice a few images that need to be edited, e.g., to remove red-eye, then I can go do that and no need to re-create a big exe file again. A further refinement of this idea is create a Vista Media Center plug-in that lists all your project files, letting you click on one to start the slide show. This lets you create custom slide shows & might have a fairly large appeal to the HTPC crowd.

I'd like to invoke the PtePreview program directly, specifying the name of a project file, e.g., "C:\Program Files\WnSoft PicturesToExe\5.5\PtePreview.exe" "c:\myslideshow.pte" This would allow one to create slide shows against local pictures folder without duplicating all the media (pictures & music) in separate generated .exe files.