Sonic DVD for Photo Story 3 for Windows does not work with Xp used to but now does not. Purchased from you30/10/2006

just to put paid to your conflicting stories, here it is directly from the microsoft forums
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/will-photo-story-3-install-and-run-on-windows-7/814d1399-9684-49b7-98a1-dd82096e6eae

I'm assuming that you made sure the disc is free of smudges and dust. It's possible that between now and the last time you tried, you ended up with a dirty lens - try another disc to be sure it's only this one that has problems. If another DVD has trouble too, you need a lens cleaner kit.

Here's one from left field,

Download this photo app. It on all new customer's software builds.

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

After that, yes, there is an XP Mode available for free download to users of W7 Pro, Ultimate or Enterprise and would run your previous more "friendly" version.

Best Regards,

TheSelkie

memorex cds are not compaitable with some computers ! please send the computer detail

Try uninstalling Roxio and the Sonic drives and run Fixit. Then reboot and install Roxio first then the Sonic driver.
If this doesn't work uninstall again as previously, install Roxio and check the CD/DVD if necessary run Fixit then install Sonic driver.

I would assume its the sonic disk they are talking about it may need it to run

There are three ways to create a Video CD (VCD) that contains your photo stories:
You can obtain Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition and view the Photo Story 3-authored WMV file in Photo Story 2 by going to Play your story or create a video CD of your story and then create a VCD.using the Photo Story 2 Video CD-burning feature.
• You can obtain Microsoft Digital Image Suite 10 or above and view the Photo Story 3-authored WMV file in the Photo Story that comes with the Digital Image Library and save and burn to VCD.
• You can obtain VCD-authoring products that work with Photo Story files, such as MyDVD by Sonic Solutions or InstantCD\DVD by Pinnacle Systems. You can use these software to convert the Windows Media video (WMV) files into files that can be copied to a DVD and played in a DVD player.
Note: VCD and DVD-authoring software is not included with Photo Story 3.

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1. Click Start, click Run, type dvdupgrd /detect, and then press ENTER.

After you run the dvdupgrd /detect command, any detected DVD decoders are listed with either a "yes" or "no" to indicate that there is or is not an upgrade available from the manufacturer for both Microsoft Windows 98/95 and Microsoft Windows 2000 versions of the software. Back to the top How to upgrade your DVD decoder loadTOCNode(2, 'moreinformation'); If an upgrade is available for your DVD decoder program:

1. Click Start, click Run, type dvdupgrd /upgrade, and then press ENTER.

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If you use Wondershare Movie Story, you can set the loop option to be loop or not in the Publish Setting dialog.

I recommend this software to make your photo slideshow, easy to use and good alternative to Windows Movie Maker

I also find a video tutorial of this software, hope it helps

if you are using xp, you can save your files to all users shared documents folder ,here you can create a folder that everybody can open it.