quiksilva Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Following a complete format of my C: I am about to go through the process of installing programs again. For AV and Firewalls Im using Norton again (the format process restarted the 3 month trial period so I figured why not (even though its very intrusive). I plan to get windows defender and am looking out for a good zero day malware protection program (that looks at the activity of suspicious programs as opposed to relying on signature updates as adware and spybot do). These are the must haves for me. For music playback, I like Itunes but have found out that my account no longer works, they need an overseas credit card hmm, so I can't use this to subscribe podcasts anymore. So am looking for good alternatives that I can use with my ipod, or for plug ins or complimentary programs that will take care of my podcast subscriptions. For video playback, I always use WMP 11 and Video Lan. For photo and graphics editing I'm very fond of Photoshop CS1 (haven't had any need to try the later versions), its a little intimidating at first but sites like good-tutorials.com make using this a breeze. Video conferencing I use Skype (still haven't found a better free alternative) or MSN. Open office and web based email sorts out all my work needs. So what software must you have on your PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sensei Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 (edited) Firefox PDF-XChange Viewer COMODO Firewall Free Download Manager Antivir Spybot Ad-Aware MWSnap 3 Faststone Image Vewer VLC Media Player Paint.NET Picasa Nokia Wireless Presenter Media Converter SA Edition Volumouse WinRar WinZip Eraser TweakUI to name a few... Edited January 4, 2008 by sensei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexLah Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 For security: Hitman Pro (is a batchscript that runs free anti spy/malware/trojan and adds extra browser protection) www.Hitmanpro.com CC cleaner (deletes all temp files and other kind of sh1t in one go) Zonealarm (free firewall) Processguard (prevents any changes/installs on your PC while browsing) (When you run Hitman Pro temporarily disable it) AVast (Anti virus) Windows Defender (another anti spyware) All is freeware. For other stuff I gues it is depending on what you do with your PC. I do hope that you dowloaded all Windows updates and above programs and install before you hook up on the net with your freshly installed PC................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsys Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 I also recently had to recover my hard disk due to a failure. Heres what I can not live without: Norton internet security norton ghost norton antibot MS office Adobe Acrobat Adobe DW CS3 Photoshop CS2 Illustrator 10 Quicktime pro VMWare workstaion MS SQL server 2005 MS visual studio and for fun MSDN library itunes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plus Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Do you pay for all those MS Office and Adobe programs? Opera and Firefox, anyone? No one mentioned torrent clients (uTorrent or Azureus for me). Klight media pack with Classic Media Player - beats VLC for hi def video playback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsys Posted January 4, 2008 Share Posted January 4, 2008 Do you pay for all those MS Office and Adobe programs?Gladly. Opera and Firefox, anyone? Only for testing No one mentioned torrent clients (uTorrent or Azureus for me). dont use them Klight media pack with Classic Media Player - beats VLC for hi def video playback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSixpack Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Less obvious but wonderful, in no particular order: ERUNT - (automatic) registry backup and restore, will save your bacon Total Commander- world's best file manager Push The Freakin' Button - automatic button pusher ArsClip - clipboard history manager Evernote - best notes collector, integrates w/ browsers etc. foobar2000 - highly configurabe audio player HDDLife - check drive temps and SMART health Maxthon - tabbed browser The Bat! - fabulous email client Path Copy - context menu option to copy file paths to clipboard Autoruns - see what's being loaded and turn off the crap Snagit - screen capture tool with perfect simple graphic editor Phrase Express - autotext into any application, saves lots of typing Autoit3 - create scripts to do most anything PowerPro - Swiss tool of Windows management, create context-sensitive toolbars; long learning curve nncron lite - Unix-style scheduler Proxomitron or Privoxy - clean up webpages, cut the ads & other crap Select All - A utility to add Select All to the Explorer context menu. Also adds an Invert Selection option to the context menu. SynchBack - file and directory backups and synch Acronis True Image - create image or clone of disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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