Neat little trick to force the preview images of running programs in Windows 7 taskbar or a so called Aero Peek, to show instantly with no delay at all.
Did you know you can use your camera with Adobe Lightroom to shoot photos and display them directly on your computer screen? It's called shooting in tethered mode.
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.