Scrump, you can adjust the preferences on your Media Player so that it will not scoot out to the internet or whatever. That would be the cheapest solution. I have mine set to just play the files I cue up and that's it.

Also, there is a very small, useful viewer for pictures and photos, freeware called Irfanview. I use it to look at photos, resize them, crop, adjust, whatever.   It for some reason has also added an audio player and will play MP3 files.