[wrenie]

I would like to know about taking family pictures and making them into a slide show, by adding music. Can anyone tell me what program I would need to do this? I am running XP. Thank you...Wrenie

[putasolution]

It depends on how sophiscated you want to make it, and whether you want to distribute it to family and friends

Irfanview, a freeware program, can do a pretty good slideshow with background music, and there is a good help section to guide you

[jgjulio]

IMO one of the best slide show making software packages is ProShow Gold.
www.photodex.com
They have a website where you may post your slide shows and anyone can download them and play them on their computer. It does a bunch of cool stuff with your slides

A few members have posted that they also use this software. In fact I found it by browsing this site.

[DaveBurnett]

XP SP2 has a free builtin tool called MovieMaker. I think you can do it with that.