Compressing Files

I'm running out of free space on my computer, and I have a lot of music,
video and pictures- but i don't want to delete them. Will they take up less
space if I compress them? Songs are all .mp3, video is all .avi, and pictures
are either .jpg or .gif. I dont know if that matters at all but I want to
make sure I will still be able to play them and burn them to CDs/DVDs, etc.
if I compress them... any help or advice would be much appreciated thank
you!!!

They are probably already compressed about as far as they can get. The real
solution is to get a second hard drive and add it to your PC.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"nat" wrote in message
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I'm running out of free space on my computer, and I have a lot of music,
video and pictures- but i don't want to delete them. Will they take up
less
space if I compress them? Songs are all .mp3, video is all .avi, and
pictures
are either .jpg or .gif. I dont know if that matters at all but I want to
make sure I will still be able to play them and burn them to CDs/DVDs,
etc.
if I compress them... any help or advice would be much appreciated thank
you!!!

as i know, you can compress video files by converting them into another format. for example there's a program called VidLogo at geovid.com, i knew out about it not a long time ago. it adds logos and watermarks to the video and is able to convert video formats. so i'd like to advise to you to try it