Thanks for your great advice everyone. Yes, I got a CD burner a year or so ago. It doesn't always work with some of the backup software I bought.... But I make backups. I've been unzipping downloaded files, and deleting the zip files. Then I copy the stuff to Cd's I've been making "theme cd's" such as "super" (4 cd's and counting) clothes, etc. I am thinking of using Direct CD again so I can use some rewriteables I've had around the house. When one CDRW gets full, then it's time to make a CDR disk. I may go back to saving the zip files once the files are installed... and deleting the unzipped files. Have to think about that one