You don't need Photoshop or some other advanced piece of software to resize a large number of images at once. You can use Microsoft Office Picture Manager which is part of the Office suite.
If you are getting a vast number of email notifications sent by your Twitter account and they started to annoy you, this is how you disable and manage them.
If you are a Skype user, it maybe disruptive for you that the program is shown in taskbar, although you don't need it at the moment. I will show you how to remove it from the taskbar.