I don't think you need help from the moderators - They are busy enough.
You can just shrink the pictures with Microsoft Paint, as I did with your avatar, attached below.
1) Open the picture file in MS Paint.
2) At the top of the screen, select the dropdown menu called 'Image'
3) Within that 'Image' dropdown, select the option called 'Stretch/Skew' (I think that option is called something different in Vista)
4) In the 'Stretch and Skew' menu, select a horizontal and vertical reduction percentage, and click 'OK'.
5) At the top of the screen, select the dropdown menu called 'File', and select 'Save As', and save your resized file.
Hint: When saving, you have an option of file type...Save it as a jpeg (.jpg) file, which is much smaller than a bitmap (.bmp) file.
Depending on the version of Windows (and MS Paint) that you have, the options may look different, but it works the same.
-Tom