As I said earlier, a nice size for a pic can be anywhere between 35kb-270 kb. If you scan for the first time you will land up with a pic of about 1200 kb (1.2meg) or above, this is way to big. The easiest way to resize a picture if you are using XP , is to download this file, (which is free from Microsoft), unzip the file and then doubleclick to install it. Once you have it installed, you can just right click on any image, and look on the menu for the line that says Resize Pictures, click, a menu pops up, asking which side you want, choose, and click ....and there you go , a new resized image. You can do this in batch mode also.....this is by far the easiest way to resize... so download this attachment and give it a bash!
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UPDATE: USE THIS LINK:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
Here's a similar utility for thos eof you using VISTA, it's also free and is about 3 megs to download.....
http://www.vso-software.fr/download_product_direct.php?product=vir