Hi. I want to go to my music folder and just have an image of the mp3's I have and then mail it to my friend. Not the mp3 but just a copy of what I have. I tried a couple different ways including the printscrn key into "paint" and it works, but for some reason the file is 3 megabytes. Any ideas?

Why not just sent the directory listing - Open a DOS Prompt and navigate to your music folder. Type the following command: dir > mymusic.txt Insert the above file as an attachment to your e-mail.

MS Paint will default to the .bmp format when saving a printscreen. Try using Alt+printscreen to capture just the active window. You can also open the image file again in MS Paint and use File, Save As and change the file type to .jpg. It will be much smaller. I highly recommend the MWSnap program. It is free and Standalone (no installation required). You can use it to simply make any size screen shot you want and it will save the image as .jpg. HTH Bryan

If you have the same picture in any of these 3 formats: BMP JPG GIF BMP will always be HUGE in comparison - that 3megs would probably come down to less than 20k in GIF. Surprisingly, Gif in this case WILL BE smaller than JPG. I would think that you didn't use PAINT correctly either. Open Paint, click edit, click paste - then take the scissors (outline tool) and "crop" what you need. Then save that under edit, use copy to... 3 megs sounds like you saved the picture plus the entire workspace. If I am wrong, I appologize in advance. You could use a program to convert to a different format (MWsnap)? as mentioned by Bryco. Response #1 is clearly the easiest. After all, you don't really need a picture of a list.