Picasa is a great free program that can help you instantly find, organize and edit all the pictures on your computer. Picasa also makes it easy to share your photos via email, gift cd's, and more.

When you install the program for the first time it will scan your My Documents Folder  for photos, and you have the option to scan the rest of your drive, also. You may be surprised by how many you forgot about!  Once the scan is complete you will be shown thumbnails of all the photos organized by date and folder.

From there you can sort photos into 'mini' albums, organized by date with folder names you will recognize.

This software makes photo editing easy for the average computer user.  Photoshop is a great software for graphics, but it is very complicated.  The average person just needs to make a few adjustments to their photos, and Picasa does the job and does it well.

The editing menu is simple but very impressive.  While you are editing your photo you do not need to worry about messing up your originals.

Finally, Picasa makes it easy to share your pictures - you can email or print the photos with a few clicks, or even make gift CDs that play a photo slideshow on your friends' PCs.  

Just go to Google and search for Picasa.