New Puter Need Photo Edit Program

The program I have used,successfully,for many years is IrfanView. A free program which you can review and download the latest edition from:- http://download.cnet.com/IrfanView

I use two different free ones.
Photoscape

http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/download.php

and
Picasa

http://picasa.en.softonic.com/

Neither have stuck me with any intrusive adware or pop ups. I just use them and find them satisfactory.

To what extent/options does Photoscape allow you to edit pictures?

Bring out the GIMP

IFran and GIMP are both excellent, and free! I use Lightroom and Photoshop but since both of those will set you back about $1,000.00 they are not for everyone, in fact Photoshop is really over kill for most of the simple editing I do on coin shoots, crop, resize, straighten. I really use it for the RAW file manipulation of exposure and white balance only. I also use Macintosh pretty much exclusively, I do have a windows machine (running under bootcamp on an old MacBook Pro) for my astronomy stuff. My desktop Windows box sits unsed 95% of the time as the Apple laptop running windows is a lot faster even though it's half the cores and 4 times older.