Blame it on all those beefy files gobbling your computer's hard drive. You can stretch your amount of free space with a utility that compresses files.
Most files contain enormous amounts of redundant information.
The typical Windows document or text file, for example, can be compressed to half its original size. While programs and certain types of image files can't be packed so tightly, file compression remains an important part of any serious Windows user's repertoire. Plus package beats the competition cold. By far, the most common format for compressed files is ZIP, a technique perfected by Phil Katz in his seminal product, PKzip. At the Clinic we like to use WinZip 6.3 for handling ZIP files, because it integrates so well into Windows without taking things over.