Good Day "58"

Tool bars I think you 'right click' on the toolbar and get various tick options and I think you simply untick those you do not want

As to the dupilcate photos in this instance with so many duplicates I would probably  save 1 of each to a new folder then delete all the photos from the original pictures folder and then reinstate those in the newly saved folder back to thePictures folder. A bit of messing about but at least if anything does go awry you still have images saved

I did have the idea of saving a copy of each picture to my external hard drive then deleting the lot from the laptop, then putting them back from the EHD. Trouble is its formatted for use with a Mac and I can't afford to plug it in and mess it up. Your idea sounds better Dave, I'll fathom out how to make a new folder and try that.

I'm going to attack the tool bars first though.

Your PM hasn't arrived yet James  I'm sure it will before long, Internet and everything is slow here.

I've got an empty USB stick with me Dave, I've just found it in all my stuff. After a bit of faffing about I've found out how to make a new folder.

I'm putting one of each picture into the new folder, then I'll copy that to the stick and take it from there. I'm assuming the stick will just mount itself on the desktop, so I can just drag and drop the complete folder ? 

Thanks Dave you're a great help. I'm not used to so much clicking  it's around 8 years since I used Windows, I've gone rusty 

It's not helping that the left click is sticking, I've to press it really hard to get it to do anything.