Is this your Windows XP computer? Your photos are almost surely saved to your hard drive somewhere. Windows Media Player doesn't actual "store" files...Look in the "My Documents/My Pictures" folder and see if the actual picture files are there. Or maybe even "My Documents/My Music" or C\My Music.
Most folks don't use Windows Media Player to view "pictures". Do you instead mean "movies"? Please clarify your question.
Hope this helps and let us know more.
Grif
I REMOVED MY PHOTOS FROM MEDIA PLAYER 10 AND I DON,T NO HOW TO PUT THEM BACK!!!!!!

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