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hi just would like people input on good applications such as firewalls,,anti-virus etc that use low amount of ram.startup is quick etc

feedback would be great

If you can be a bit more specific as to your computer specifications we may be able to not only recommend the software, but some other ideas to help speed up your computer.

The more detail you give, the better the help will be!

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hi just would like people input on good applications such as firewalls,,anti-virus etc that use low amount of ram.startup is quick etc

feedback would be great

AV - F-Prot or NOD32*

Firewall - Sygate*

Bit Torrent - uTorrent*

IM - Miranda (a bit buggy) or Trillian (not so quick startup on older systems)

Music player - Foobar2000 or Winamp Lite*

Browser - Opera*

That should do you for a while... ;)

* = Apps that I use

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browser - hell yeah, opera ;)

download manager - Reget Deluxe

torrents - uTorrent

firewall+antivirus+antispyware = ZoneAlarm SecuritySuite

Mount virtual ISO images - Microsoft's own virtualCD

image editing, viewing - Paint.NET, irfanview

game - tuxracer

CD writing - CDBurnerXP Pro

MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ messengers - Trillian Basic

IRC chat - Trillian basic v3.1

PDF viewing - Acrobat Reader 6.03 (with acrobat reader speedup, to cut out all the crap)

Lightweight player - Winamp Pro 5.1 :P

plus codecs for real, quicktime, etc, so that all formats WILL play in winamp itself - K-Lite mega codec pack

every single one of these is the lightest, and despite that, best in its class!

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ZoneAlarm is a resource hog, especially on Win9x/ME. 80% resources, whereas Outpost firewall lets you have 95% free.

Firewall - Outpost

Browser - Firefox with Firetune, about:config - browser.cache.memory.capacity = 16384

AntiVirus - Avast! or e-Trust.

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The latest Outpost Pro has anti-spyware bundled with it, but one is never enough. It's still best to have MSAS, Ad-Aware and Spybot, along with CWShredder, SpywareBlaster and CCleaner. Plus HijackThis just in case.

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Music player - Quintessential player

Bittorent - µTorrent

PDF - Foxit PDF Reader

Http File Server - Hfs

Ftp - FileZilla

Browser - Opera

Instant Messenger - Messenger2 or Trillian

Image Editing - XnView, Paint.Net

Image Mounting - Daemon Tools

CD Burning - CDBurnerXP Pro

cant think of anymore good ones right now

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Interesting software list especially from prathapml. Tuxracer?! hahaha

I dont like Winamp for anything else other than music. For vid I use WMP for everything. But i have to download Quicktime separately for chatting thru Trillian Pro. And also there are some websites where QT vids dont show up thru QT alternative.

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Are you disagreeing or are you in utter disbelief that zonealarm has an av? Or are you trying to say zonealarm is a substandard product. Never tried the av myself but the firewall itself is awesome though I dont need a firewall meself.

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@prathapml - I think he was meaning that ZA isn't a "low resource" program.

Regarding the level of control - that's the case with most "good" security software. I haven't used ZA in ages, but with Sygate, it's got a decent level of protection off the bat, and you can lock it down really, really tight. Same goes for Kerio. The thing that I really like about Sygate is the fact that it's a no-frills UI. No fancy graphics - no HTML bloat interfaces. Just the menus and buttons that you need to configure everything. With products like Norton and McAfee, you need to dig through 7 layers of menus and options to find some options... :P

People simply assume that a pretty interface means better... :no:

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Hmm.... ZA is sufficiently low-resource for me.

Atleast better than Norton!

In any case, an average of 12 MB that ZA takes up, if considered against the huge range of facilities it provides, should be quite good. Especially on today's specs with gigabytes of RAM... :P

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