Just found a nice small free (Freeware) program that is free to use - it's small filesize and ease of use means we have no excuses now for posting large images and oversize avatars

Hopefully my list of keywords should catch anyone searching for such a program too

L I N C K Y

Cheers,great program!
works wonders on avatars

the M$ powertoys work great also

Image Resizer
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

All the PowerToys
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx