I have a folder on my portable hard drive named "my stuff" then inside that is a folder named "pictures" and when I CLICK on that the pics automatically show up. Now I deleted the pictures and replaced them with a animated gif w/sound that I took from the internet however when I dragged it into the "pictures" folder and open it I have to then click on a "e" icon to get it to play. How can I just click on the "pictures" folder and have it just automatically start playing? Is that possible?Try pointing the ARROW key to the folder and press right-click button. A certain software that usually opens up GIF pictures should appear such as the one you mention. If not, click option OPEN with and scroll/browse your certain software, highlight it and click OK. So everytime you use certain files, the software(media) file is already a PROMPT option for you. But usually, simultaneously playing all is a different issue here. Obviously you cannot play them all the same time. Its like saying i want to watch TWO movies from a hard drive and open them with a media player such as VLC. Anyway you can do open,play and watch but not a realistic way unless you want to test.Thanks Jason, I'll try that