Photo Editor recommendations?

[Gypsy]

Posted a while ago for suggestions on a new laptop. Got a pretty sweet deal on an IBM Thinkpad and am pretty happy with the choice.

This laptop came loaded with OS MS 2K Pro, and MS Office 2003. Unfortunately, the photo editor gets removed when you load Office 2003 according to the MS site so I was browsing for some shareware vice purchasing the new photo editor from MS at this time. The "fix" on MS indicates using the disk for XP...but I don't have that OS. Probably will eventually upgrade to XP just not right now.

A member directed me to Tucows.com and I browsed around trying to find a "name brand" program that would be safe to use. I found a couple with high ratings; one is by Silvereaglesoft.com called Amazing Photo Editor. There is also Adobe Photoshop as well as several others.

My basic "need" is just to have a program on my hard drive, so when I save photos I will be able to size them and such...nothing fancy.

Any experience with Amazing Photo Editor or any others? From previous experiene I wasn't terribly impressed with Adobe, but that was a long while ago.