jimnshell

First, thanks for all your help everyone. I will be trying all the tips and possible solutions as soon as possible. (Have to get back to the work site.) LumenLux wrote : "Now Jim, have you tried copying the show from your CD onto a different PC. I am wondering if the Temp folders on your PC are possibly harboring some remnants that trouble the running of the show copied back from the CD. Maybe nobeefstu (or Al, or Bill or ?) can jump back in here and say whether that could be a factor. " Yes, I have brought the exe file home to my computer and copied it down to the HD, but no luck. If the compare function mentioned above is OK, then I am going to make the pic files smaller and see if that works. I just hate to have to go through all of them and resize. I think once I conquer this problem, all future slide shows will be a breeze. Again, THANKS!

Thanks for all the replies. To answer the question on comparing. I used the comparsion function when burning the CD. Everything checked out during the burn. Or at least the burning software said the files were identical and OK. I even tried a DVD combo burner in hopes that this would help. No luck yet. Sometimes the music doesn't even play from the CD version of the exe file. It just doesn't make sense. If the exe file works from the HD, then the file copied to the CD (especially if copied back to a HD) should work also. Never encountered this type of problem before. It's got me baffled.

This appears to be a major problem with Pictures2exe. I have had the same problem and have tried everything I can think of. The slide show works fine with the exe file created to the HD on the original computer. At first, I thought the CD version was having trouble because of access time, etc. So, I copied the exe file from the CD onto the hard drive (on the same computer that runs the original EXE file correctly) and the exe file exhibits the same faults as if running from the CD. I have tried different CD burners, etc., but to no avail. ANY recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks!