great tips. only learned them after a long while of mass freebie downloads and CDs that were unorganized. to add 2 cents to a great organization method listed above (which I do). save a tumbnail and name it the same as the zip. you'll get a jpg or gif pic, and a zip but the names will be the same so when you look through a directory with 1000 files in the folder you can right click and figure out what that V2-red dress IS. I save thumbs of my purchased items as well, usually a promo shot or something. After a while with so many CDs and so many files, it makes it easy to go through a CD and click on picture tumbs and find real treasutes I had forgotten about. invest in a CD cataloging application. you can then do searches or easly look through a catalog of 50+ CDs and you don't have to keep flipping a cd in the drive to see what's on it. my additions :) really good tips for the new person to have. hauksdottir good work.