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You favourite software!

sonu27
in Software Hangout

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Well I just want to know what you peoples' favourite software is.

I'll start off, then you post.

Here are mine (as of 18/05/05):

Operating System: Windows XP Home Service Pack 2

Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4

Firewall: ZoneAlarm 5.5.094.000

Anti-Virus: KasperSky Anti-virus Personal 5.0.352

Imaging Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe ImageReady CS2, Corel Draw 11

Compression: WinZip 9 SR-1, WinRAR 3.42

Instant Messaging: MSN Messenger 7.0.0813

Web Developing: TopStyle Pro 3.11, Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 SP1, Macromedia Deamweaver MX 2004, Macromedia Flash Professional MX 2004

Media: Windows Media Player 10

Encyclopedia: Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Standard 2004

E-mail: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 SP1

Word Processing: Microsoft Office Word 2003 SP1

Presentation: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 SP1

Database: Microsoft Office Access 2003 SP1

Spreadsheet: Microsoft Office Excel 2003 SP1

Desktop Publishing: Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 SP1

Forms: Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP1

Notes: Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 SP1

Drawings: Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 SP1

Projects: Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 SP1

CD-DVD Burning: Ahead Nero 6.6.0.8

Adware and Spyware Removal: HijackThis 1.99.1, Ad-Aware SE Personal

Powertoys: Tweak UI

Others: Microsoft Mouse, Lexmark Z65 Printer

Games: None; Just Windows Games

You don't have to post as detailed as mine, but I just want to know what software you are running.

Sonu27

Edited by sonu27

Operating System: Windows 98 SE with Unofficial SP 2.01, 98SE2ME, Revolutions 3.0, and DirectX 9.0c Apr2005

Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox, registered Opera 8.0b3, Maxthon

Other Internet-related software: Free Download Manager, Emule MorphXT, Shareaza, eDexter

Firewall: Outpost Firewall or Kerio Personal Firewall 2.15. Also I use a HOSTS file to block access to over 100,000 advertising, malware, etc. sites.

Anti-Virus: AVG Free Edition

Image Software: Infranview, 1st Impression, Webshots Desktop

Compression: 7-zip, IZarc, TUGzip

Media: Winamp (2.83?) or Winamp 5.08e, HighlyExperimental, HighlyAdvanced, NotSoFatso, SynthFont.

Adware and Spyware Removal: Spybot S&D 1.3RC1, Ad-Aware SE Personal, CCleaner

Powertoys: RivaTuner, FreshUI

CD Software: VIDE-CDD, SHSUCDX, Daemon Tools 3.41, CDBurnXP, CloneCD

Disk software: Ranish partition manager 2.44, Savepart, DriveRescue, XXCOPY, Executive Diskeeper

E-mail: Microsoft Outlook 2000 or gmail

Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP 2 (custom), soon moving over Server 2k3 Enterprise

Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4

Firewall: Agnitum Outpost 2.6

Anti-Virus: Symantec AntiVir 10.0.0.359

Imaging Software: Adobe Suite CS2, Corel Draw 11 if needed, ACDSee32 2.4 (classic) to view mostly image formats

Compression: WinRAR 3.42, WinZip 9 SR-1, 7-Zip (latest beta)

Instant Messaging: Gaim mainly, MSN Messenger 7.0.0813 if necessary

Web Developing: Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 SP1, Notepad2

Media: Winamp (audio), BSPlayer (video), WMP 10 (some rare formats like .mkv or .3gp)

Encyclopedia: wikipedia, google :P

E-mail: http mail (gmail) plus gmail notifier extension for firefox

Word Processing: Microsoft Office Word 2003 SP1

Presentation: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 SP1 (rarely used)

Spreadsheet: Microsoft Office Excel 2003 SP1

Drawings: The Gimp (rarely used)

CD-DVD Burning: Ahead Nero 6.6.0.13, Alcohol 120% (latest), DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink, Ultraiso

Adware and Spyware Removal: Ad-Aware SE Professional (rarely used)

P2P: eMule (modded), ABC 3.0.1b

Powertoys: Tweak UI, custom calc

Others: Hex Workshop

Games: MOH Spearhead for multiplayer but mainly PS2 for arcade games. personally i hate windows games :P

Operating System: Windows XP Home Service Pack 1

Web Browser: Internet Explore 6.0

Firewall: Dont have one Fixing it atm lol

Anti-Virus: Avast

Imaging Software: Adobe Photoshop CS

Compression: WinAce

Instant Messaging: MSN Messenger 7.0.0813

Web Developing: Macromedia Deamweaver MX 2004, Macromedia Flash Professional MX 2004

Media: Windows Media Player 10

E-mail: Gmail , Hotmail

Word Processing: Microsoft Office XP

CD-DVD Burning: Ahead Nero 6.6.0.8

Adware and Spyware Removal: Ad-ware , M$ Anit Spyware

Games: Steam: CS,HL,DOD,TFC,

Operating System: Windows XP pro spk1 nlited

Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4(standalone)

Firewall: Black Ice defender

Anti-Virus: antivir (standalone)

Imaging Software: Photofiltre (standalone)

Compression: WinRAR 3.42 and filzip

Web Developing: NVU(standalone)

Media: Windows Media Player 9 and foobar2000(standalone)

Encyclopedia: google

Word Processing: abiword (standalone)

Spreadsheet: Gnumeric(standalone)

CD-DVD Burning: CDmate (standalone)

Adware and Spyware Removal: none

PDF: foxit pdf reader(standalone) to read tomahawk(standalone) to create

Games: Bfvietnam(standalone),Kotor 2(standalone)

Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2 (custom DVD)

Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4

Firewall: Kerio 4.x

Anti-Virus: Symantec AV Corp 10.x

Imaging Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Premier Pro 1.5 (video editing), xnView, Picasa2, (testing Faststone Image Viewer)

Compression: 7zip, WinRAR 3.42

Instant Messaging: Miranda 0.4.x beta

Web Developing: Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 SP1, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004

Media: Media Player Classic, iTunes

Encyclopedia: What's that? :D

E-mail: Mozilla TB 1.0.2

Word Processing: Microsoft Office Word 2003 SP1

Presentation: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 SP1

Database: Microsoft Office Access 2003 SP1

Spreadsheet: Microsoft Office Excel 2003 SP1

Desktop Publishing: Microsoft Office Publisher 2003 SP1

Forms: Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 SP1

Notes: Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 SP1

Drawings: Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003 SP1

Projects: Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 SP1

CD-DVD Burning: Ahead Nero 6.6.0.x

Adware and Spyware Removal: HijackThis 1.99.1, Spybot S&D, MS Antispyware

Powertoys: Tweak UI

P2P: emule morph, Azureus 2.x

Games: None - use the xbox, psp, or ps2 for that

Operating System: XP Pro SP2 // QNX RTOS // Fedora

Connection Optimizer: Cablenut, Dr Salman's HyperNet

Instant Messaging: Yahoo!, MSN and Gilly Messenger

Download Manager: Getright Pro, FlashGet

Web Accelerator: Onspeed

IM Enhacements: Messenger Plus!, Spleak, YEmote

RSS Aggregator: Opera

Web Servers: Ability FTP Server, Abyss Web Server

Web Browser: Opera, Firefox, Arachne

Ad-Blocker: Ad Muncher

Firewall: ZoneAlarm Pro

E-Mail: M2 (Opera)

Proxy: Naviscope

P2P: eMule

FTP: FlashFXP

IRC: miRC

Virus Removal Tool (standalone): scan.exe/scanpm.exe (McAfee SuperDAT)

Anti-Spyware: Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE, HijackThis, CWShredder, SpywareBlaster

Anti-Virus: Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition

Imaging: Jasc Paint Shop Pro, The GIMP, MsPaint

Animation: Animation Shop Pro

Image Viewer: Irfan View

Icon Editing: IconWorkshop

Screen Capture: SnagIt

Word Processing: Notepad2, OpenOffice.org

PDF Reader: Adobe Acrobat

Database: Oracle

Bundler: Pe-Bundle

Debugging: OllyDBG

Programming: Visual Basic, Visual C++, TASM

Hex Editing: WinHex

PE Analysis: PE Explorer, PEiD

Setup Creator: NSIS

Resource Editor: Resource Hacker, ResEdit, Restorator

Scripting & Automation: AutoHotKey, Batch Files

Web Development: Frontpage, Notepad2, DHTML Menu Builder

HTML Compression: HTML LZW Pro, HTML Compress

HTML Source Viewing: Instant Source

Defrag: Diskeeper

Backup: WinRescueXP

Undelete: Winternals FileRestore

RAM Drive: RamdiskXP

S.M.A.R.T: Active SMART

CPU Cooling: CPU Eat 'n' Cool

Compression: 7-zip, WinRAR, WinUHA, UPX

Overclocking: SoftFSB

Partitioning: Symantec Partition Magic

Disk Imaging: WinImage, Norton Ghost

Disk Cleaner: System Mechanic

Data Recovery: GetDataBack for NTFS, SpinRite

Desktop Search: File Finder (jv16 Powertools)

Driver Manager: Driver Magic Pro

Registry cleaner: Regseeker

Registry Compress: WinRescueXP

Disk Usage Viewer: Sequoia View

Magnetic Media Repair/Refresh: SpinRite

Boot-CD: BCDW, EasyBoot, PeBuilder

CD Cloning: Clone CD

CD Recovery: IsoBuster

DVD Cloning: Slysoft AnyDVD + DVD X Studios CloneDVD

Virtual Drive: Daemon Tools

CD/DVD Burning: Nero

CD Image Authoring/editing: UltraISO

Audio Codec: HE-AAC

Audio Player: foobar2000

Audio Editor: GoldWave

Audio Ripper: Easy CD-DA Extractor

Audio Create: Fruity Loops, Dance eJay

Lyrics viewer: EvilLyrics

Audio Capture: Total Recorder

Audio Converter: dbPowerAmp

Movie Player: Media Player Classic, DVD Player: WinDVD

Movie Codec: DivX

Movie Converter: #1 Video Converter, Xilisoft Video Converter

Movie Editor/etc: VirtualDub, Windows Movie Maker, MPEG Tools

Movie Ripper: Dr. DivX, #1 DVD Ripper

Movie/Disk Catalog: Ant Movie Catalog

Skinning: Stardock Suite

System Tweaking: [deXter]'s Super XP AutoTweaker :)

Theme Pack Program: XPize

XP Setup Customization, etc: nLite :P

Password/System Auditing: L0pht Crack (LC), Cain, Ethereal, Passware

Window/Message Spying: Winspector Spy

Traceroute: NeoTrace Pro

CMOS Password Cracking: CMOSPWD

Offline NT Registry/User Accounts Editor: CHNTPW

Mobile phone Software: Oxygen Phone Manager

Notepad Replacement: Notepad2

Astronomy Related: Stella, Earthview

Answering Machine: Advanced Call Center, Modem Spy

MSI Editor: WinInstall

Hotkeys: AutoHotKey

OCR: Abby FineReader

DOS: FreeDOS

Virtual Machine: MS Virtual PC, VMware Workstation

DOS Emulator: DosBOX

PSX Emulator: ePSXe, PCSX2

NTFS-DOS: NTFSDOS Pro

System ClockSpeed Modifier: SpeederXP

Process Viewer: Sysinternals ProceXP, Advanced Process Manager

Startup Viewer: Sysinternals Autoruns

Boot Manager: BootMagic

Diagnostics: Everest Home Edition

Games: Diablo II LOD, Ragnarok Online, Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth, Star Trek Armada, Age Of Empires 2, Rise of Nations, One Must Fall 2097, Bio Menace

*P.S: I didn't add any software versions 'cause I update every 12 hours :)

OS: XP Pro x64

Audio: Foobar 2000

Creative: Adobe Creative Suite CS2 & Macromedia Studio MX, Topstyle Aswell.

IM: Miranda IM 0.4.

Browser: Firefox 1.0.4

E-mail: Thunderbird.

Office: Openoffice 2.0 Beta

Compression: TUGZip.

P2P: Emule, Carbos & Azurez.

FTP: Filezilla.

System Utills: OO Defrag 8.0, OO Safeeraze, OO CleaverCash, Nero, Klite Megacodec Pack.

Editor: Jedit.

System Tweaking: [deXter]'s Super XP AutoTweaker :)

And what might this be if I might ask?

(I'll add my list here later tonight... It'll be something for me to do on the bus ride home...)

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I am waiting for nLite to go out of beta and for the next version to be realeased. Then I will burn my self a nLited version.

I don't use my AV just for my sister. :lol:

I have also removed java that came with WinXP.

I neat software is resource hacker. Very intersting.

Nice list ppl.

I guess quite a few ppl to have Microsoft Office Enterpise Edition. ;)

Operating System: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2

Web Browser: TouchNet

Firewall: TianWang 2.73

Anti-Virus: Rising (China)

Imaging Software: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe ImageReady CS2,

Compression: WinRAR 3.42

Instant Messaging: QQ2005 Beta 1 (China)

Web Developing: Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 SP1, Macromedia Flash Professional MX 2004

Media: Windows Media Player 10

E-mail: Foxmail(China)

Word Processing: Microsoft Office Word 2003 SP1

Presentation: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 SP1

Database: Microsoft Office Access 2003 SP1

Spreadsheet: Microsoft Office Excel 2003 SP1

Notes: Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 SP1

CD-DVD Burning: Nero 6.6.0.8 Alcohol 120%

Video:Winamp

Operating System:

Windows 2000 pro + Service Pack 4

Web Browser:

Maxthon 1.25(China)

Firewall:

Sygate personal firewall 5.5

Anti-Virus:

AVG Anti-virus Free 7

Imaging Software:

Adobe Photoshop 7.0

Adobe Illustrator 10

Corel Draw 9

Painter 6

Compression:

WinRAR 3.42

TUGZip 3.2

Instant Messaging:

QQ2004(China)

Media:

MediaMonkey 2.3

K-lite mega code pack 1.30

Windows Media Player 9

E-mail:

Foxmail 5(China)

Office:

Microsoft Office Word 2003 SP1

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 SP1

Microsoft Office Excel 2003 SP1

CD-DVD Burning:

Ahead Nero 5.5

Adware and Spyware Removal:

Ad-Aware SE Personal 1.05

P2P:

Bitcomet 0.58(China)

Download Manager:

Net Transport 1.94(China)

FTP:

FTPRush 1.0

Text Editor:

Notepad2

PSPad 4.2

File Manager:

xplorer2 pro 1.2.0.0

First i want to recognize [deXter]'s awesome post :)

Now mine:

OS: XP Pro SP2

Browser: Firefox (with plenty of extensions)

Firewall/Anti-Virus: ZoneAlarm SecuritySuite & Router

Compression: WinRAR 3.42

Instant Messaging: Gaim, Skype

Media: MPC, WMP10, DVDshrink, DVD Decrypter,

E-mail: Thunderbird, Gmail

Office: MS Word/Excel

CD-DVD Burning: Nero 6.6.0.8

Download Manager: Leechget

Text Editor: Notepad2

Utilities: O&O Defrag, Autoruns, Everest Home

Partitioning: Acronis Disk Director

Disk Imaging: Acronis True Image

Disk Cleaner: CCleaner

Torrents: G3 Torrent, Azureus

Games: Unreal Tournament 2004, Age of Empires 2, Neverwinter Nights, SimCity 4 Deluxe

Operating System: Windows XP w/ Sp2 + Hotfixes

Image Software:

*Photoshop CS2

*Illustrator CS2

Audio

*Winamp 5.09

*Windows Media Player 10

FireWall & Antivirus/ Adware

*Norton Internet Security 2005

*AdAware SE Pro 1.05

Defrag

*Diskeeper Pro 9.0.504

Video Player

*Cyberlink PowerDVD 6

FTP

*CuteFTP 7.xx

Buring Software

*Nero Buring Rom 6.0.13

*AnyDVD

*CloneDVD

*CloneCD

Video Editing

*Pinnacle Studio 9

*TMPEG Express

*DVD lab 1.03

Browser

*Firefox 1.04

PDF Creator

*Adobe Acrobat Pro 7.1

Rename Software

*Rename Batch .EXE

Compression

*7zip 4.19

*Winrar 3.4

Video/Image Capture

*HyperSnap 5.62.05

*SnagIT 7.2.3

Virtual Drive

*Virtual CloneDrive 5.1.1.1

MP3 Tag Renamer

*Tag&Rename 3.1.7

Messenger Service

*Trillian Pro 3.1

Registry SnapShot

*RegSnap Pro

Office Software

*Microsoft Office Suite (Word,Excel,PowerPoint,Outlook,Frontpage)

*WinFAX pro 10.3

Accounting Software

*Peachtree 2005

Games!

*Bookworm

*TextTwister

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