Photo sorting

Hi,
I have registered only this evening and I am not hugely computer literate.
I have a couple of questions about the handling of photos using Windows 7, together with Office 2007.
In XP, when faced with a screenful of photos, I could sort them into the desired order by clicking and dragging. After doing this I could then number them. How can I do this in W7? There is a long list of available grouping choices but it does not include what I want.
Is there any way of resizing photos in bulk i.e. more than one at a time?
Thanks

Resizing or renaming?

For renaming folders of files, and optionally subfolders, I use WildRename.

I don't know how to resize in bulk.

As for sorting, there are numerous columns you can add to windows explorer that are hidden by default - some of these may be what you desire to sort. right-click in any of the column titles and there is a box of optional fields to add to the list.

Also in the list is TAGS and if you go to properties you can assign this field a value which can then be sorted (al though it seems like it would be faster to just rename than use this idea)

Irfanview can do both Batch Rename and Batch Resizing.