oops, i have 3 mp3 files included, about 14,00kb, sorry forgot to include them. it just took 35 seconds to start in my cdrw drive. it wouldn't start at all in my cd-rom drive, although i just tried an old cd with a 21,600kb exe on it and it started within 10 sec on my cd-rom drive. i'm running a p3 700 with 512mg of memory. maybe it's just the larger file size of the newer slide show, that makes it load slow? does anyone else use nero to burn with? i make the cd as a cd-rom(iso), no mulit-session and finalize the cd. i used to use ez-cd e\creator, thats probably not the problem.