Another thing I usually do b4 archieving my files on CD prior to or after installing, is get rid of a lot of the extra stuff to save space. This doesn't amount too much per individual zip, but over the course of a few hundred files it can add up to a considerable amount of MBs saved. I mean, how many copies of the Daz/Rosity/RDNA licsence aggreements do you need? Or duplicate P4/P5/PPP files in the same archieve? Takes a little time to pare zips down but is worth it. As far as those .exe files, I always extract those to a dummy folder b4 installing...makes it easier to get rid of excess that way than after the thing is ballooned over 40 different folders.