Hi Phil, I'll make a start for you. Everybody has slide show software on their computer. It's included with Windows Operating system and is known as Picture and Fax Viewer. For 40 jpg pictures use a CD (700 MB) that's plenty of space. Using a DVD is really a waste of space, unless you make a big production out of it with music and text or other graphics. Burning the files to CD you need to create a VCD which will play in a DVD player. Even the most simple VCD will play and advance with the DVD player's FWD button. If you have one of the later versions of Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator, I doubt you need another program to create menus. Since you didn't give the version of Roxio,all I can suggest is RTFM or Read The Friendly Manual and be prepared to spend some time experimenting with the settings. Any advice at this point may be irrelevant since we don't know all the features of the program. Peter E. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [PCSOFT] Slide show options From: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Date: 23-Jun-2008 9:20:56 PM I have a collection of 30-40 jpeg pics I want to put on a disc to send to friends and family in a slide show format. Some people recieving it will not have slide show software on their machines so I wonder if there is a small (free) program that I can include on the disc to give them easy controls of the show. Would I have to create the disc as an iso image to "auto-start" the show? Another option I wonder about is creating it as a DVD. Some of the folks don't use computers (imagine that!) but do own dvd players. I recently bought and installed Roxio Easy cd and dvd creator. I haven't used it except for data cds so I'm not really familiar with the program yet. Would the individual pics be saved as chapters and would I have to create a chapters list as seen at the begining of factory movie dvds? I realize a lot of this can be discovered by a deeper study of my software, which I'm embarking on, but I hoped some of you may have some tips, pointers or shortcuts that might help. Many thanks, Phil Williams Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://freepctech.com/staff.shtml