im after a programe that will sort out my pictures on the hard drive, so it will tell me of the multiple backups ive done over the years, is the a free one i can down load

Do you mean somthing that will search for all the duplicate files you have?

yes duplicate pictures

Free one here that I use Dupe...
http://www.tucows.com/preview/373411

ta, will it delete the duplicate ones automatically or do i have to do it myself

If you are brave, you hi6t the button on the toolbar trhat selects all the duplicates (except for the first one of each file)
Then you hgit the send to re-cycle bin option to lose them...