it may be the cd you are trying to copy, I know the walmart photo cd's that I have had in the past were not always copyable they contain special coding or something that can make it hard if not impossible to copy sometimes.

but with most photo cd's you just put the cd in the cd drawer and it will pop up a box asking what you want to do, you want to copy to disc, or you can just drag and drop the pics from the disc to a folder on your pc. Right click on the picture itself and you should have some options like save as or copy to you can use those also to tell it where to put the picture.

this is the type of situation I have run into with the walmart cd, this is a quote from a website.
"WalMart Photo and also Kodak photo processing--available at nearly any supermarket, drug store, etc.--offer to put your photos on a CD along with developed prints. But, included with the CD images of your photos is proprietary photo/album management software. The photo/albun software seems to be pushed on the consumer to make it his primary photo management software program. These programs include a (re)ORDER PRINTS and/or ENLARGEMENTS function. The objective is to cause the consumer to keep using only THAT photo processing source and photo management program on his PC!

Either the Walmart or the Kodak software MUST be loaded to even view the photos on the respective CD or to copy the images to your PC's hard drive. Without loading the proprietary software, you cannot view, edit or copy your photos! "

I refuse to load any extra software on my pc if I can not do it with the programs I have then too bad. I will not risk putting spyware on my pc.

I fully agree with Ravencajun's feelings about programmes that trap you into using "their" utilities - especially if they are trying to take my money!

If your Photo Cds are locked in to WalMart or Kodak's system how about trying this as a possible work around - I don't have any of their CDs so I cannot say for certain if it will work:

Download and install the last freeware version of FastStone Capture (version 5.3). It is an excellent tool that enables you to easily capture any part of the screen.

Run FastStone Capture and, in the "Settings" section of the Settings Menu, find the shortcut keys that trigger the type of capture that you want - I would guess that it would either be the "active window" or a box that you draw around the area of interest.

Then, while FastStone Capture is still running, start your Photo CD programme and see if you can capture an image. If successful, then you can choose to save it as a .bmp file and the quality, under normal viewing and printed photo up to A4 size, will probably be indistinguishable from the original.

If it works and you need to edit, rotate or resize the image then use another excellent free programme PhotoFiltre (version 6.3.7) from http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm

To complete my suggestions, FastStone Viewer is my favourite photo viewing programme http://www.faststone.org/download.htm

Colin

Here is a link that might be useful: FastStone Capture

Thank you everyone for your help. I will try those suggestions and get back to you.
Thanks again toyotabob