I have a bit of free software that is really easy to use. If you click on the link below, in the right hand column there is a link for the image resizer. If you download that, then whenever you want to send a picture, you go to your pictures folder, click on the picture you want, and then right-hand click and a menu will come up. Click on Resize pictures and a box comes up where you select a size (usually 'Small' is already ticked). Once 'Small' is selected just click on OK and a duplicate picture of the one you selected appears in your folder (sometimes next to your original picture and sometimes at the end) with the same title but with 'small' in parenthesis in the title. That is the picture you attach to your email. My instructions have been a little long-winded but it's actually really easy and the pictures will only take up a few kb of space on your computer and you can send and receive them much faster.
Here's the link to the software:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx
Nina