exporting increases game by 3mb why? can this be reduced?

[stevenp]

normaly my game is like 4 mb, but when i export it to .exe it add on 3 MB from no where, why? and can this be reduced?

[makslane]

The internal compression is designed for speed. So the size of an image will be larger than the same image compressed with jpeg or png, but will be loaded faster in the game.