Dell Dimension 3100 desktop PC w/WIN Home XP

I have no idea what format the pics are in, I don't have a digicam and I'm still using 35mm but if you're talking about terms like jpeg and bitmap I can check with the guy tomorrow who took the pics for me and ask. My desktop does have Windows media player on it, I've never used it. When I insert the CD into the combo drive bay on the computer, I press the button to open the door, drop the CD into the drive, press the button again to close the door, the door closes but nothing else happens, no motor sounds or nothing.

You have other PCs. Try the disk in one of those. If you can view the picture files by name, they will have a file extension which is usually 3 digits. Knowing that file extension will tell what program is required to view the file. If the file extension won't show, you may have to go to folder options and find a setting to show extensions for known file types.

The Dell Dimension 3100 desktop PC that I have was purchased by my brother in April 2006 and installed here in my house about a month later. I have used the CD drive on it before to install Quicken and numerous A/V programs before I started using free ones from CNET Downloads. The Dell laptop that I have, a Vostro 1510 was also purchased for me by the brother, it was shipped directly to me new from Dell in February 2009. I couldn't figure out how to open the door on it's drive bay since I have never tried to do so before, never had a need to do so but I did insert the CD with the pics on it into the laptop's drive and the laptop literally sucked the CD into the drive.

Motor noises went on for several minutes then suddenly the pictures on the CD appeared on the laptop's screen and the laptop ejected the CD out, weird. I don't have Outlook Express set up on this laptop nor do I want to for privacy reasons, the computer belongs to my brother who bought and paid for it from Dell last year. All of my emailing done on this laptop is done using webmail, AT&T, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. If I can't figure out how to get the pics on the desktop I'll just mail the CD containing these pics to this guy who wants to see them rather than me emailing them from this Dell laptop.

I successfully loaded the pics on the CD into my PC this afternoon, the drive ain't dead.

What is the result if you email those pix as "attachments" thus sending the pix and email to the person that wants to see them? If successful, please state it. Or, if you failed or still have a viewing problem, state that. I get no mention you're able to view the pix. I suggest that as your results make any response possible, so far it seems one item after another. I still need to know what format is present for the pix. The filename of the pictures, ie: pciture1.xxx, picture2.xxx, etc. xxx=the format used

tada -----Willy