What are your BASIC programs?

[Juster]

For example,

browser, archiver, anti-virus, player, editor, IM, BT, file manager, burn, mail.........and........

They are the MUST programs after you install your Windows. so what are they?

[suryad]

I think there was a similar thread called"light programs" or something.....basically meaning programs that are not resource hungry. Forgot the title but it was pretty recent so eyeballying the titles would get you the link I wa talking about.

But I use IE, MS anti spyware, Nero 6 .6, Cyberlink PowerDVD 6, Adobe Professional 7, OpenOffice, Executive Diskkeeper, CCleaner, System Mechanic, Winamp, WMP, Winrar, Picassa2, Notepad++, Google talk, Google accelerator, Trillian Pro, Quicktime, Outlook Express I have left installed just in case I can install future versions of MS Office...thats it.

[Zxian]

NOD32

Sygate

Notebook Hardware Control (Anyone with a Centrino laptop should use this!!!)

Opera

Outlook

OneNote

Winamp

MSN Messenger

AveDesk

VMware

Acrobat Professional 7.05

Photoshop CS2

Ad Muncher

WS_FTP

uTorrent

MathCad 12

Mathematica 5.1

Nero

Windows Media Player

Spybot S&D

SpywareBlaster

7-zip

Acronis True Image

CacheMan

CCleaner

Daemon Tools

Everest Home Edition

Notepad++

TweakUI

Reshacker

UltraISO

WinRAR

Orca

PerfectDisk

SyncToy

That should do it for now... B)

I only keep the "must-have" programs installed on my computer. Anything that I'm testing goes into a VM (hence one of the reasons I have VMware), and if it's good enough, then I'll install it.

[Jeremy]

XP Pro SP2 RyanVM Pack v1.3.1

Edited November 4, 2005 by Jeremy

[markw]

Mine are:

Firefox

IE7 (beta 1 right now)

Photoshop

iTunes

Office

VLC

Konfabulator

Scite

Microsoft AnitSpyware

AntiVirus (Norton Corporate right now)

Picasa2

7zip

Visual C++ Toolkit OR Visual Studio

edit:

UltraISO

Virtual PC

Visio

OneNote

Edited November 2, 2005 by markw

[SPiKA]

ABC

ACDSee

Download Accelerator

eMule

CuteFTP Pro

Microsoft Office

Nero

SiSoftware Sandra

Winamp

WinRAR

Adobe Reader

DAEMON Tools

Diskeeper

MSN Messenger

Firefox

Edited November 2, 2005 by SPiKA

[rockerbl2]

Here are my programs I use:

Opera 9 Preview 1 (Browser)

Look 'n' Stop (Firewall)

Peerguardian 2 (IP blocker)

Foobar2000 (Media player)

Gaim (IM)

uTorrent (Bittorent)

Dc++ (p2p)

EAC (Cd player)

Nero 7 (Cd burner)

Perfectdisk (Defragmentor)

Alcohol 120% (iso burner/mount)

TuneUp Ultilities 2006

Winrar

-all w/ nlite+ryanvm under 100MB

[C01eMaN]

My Basic Programs...

Firefox

Thunderbird

Nero 6

Free Download Manager

7-Zip

WinRAR

Virtual DJ Studio

Proxifier

ResHacker (Custom Made Installer)

WinAmp

MSN Messenger

Messenger Plus+

CCleaner

AudioCommander

Total Video Converter

Spyware Doctor

IsoBuster

TaskSwitchXP

IM2 v1.5.0.59

Microsoft Office XP

Ace Mega Codecs Pack Pro

Quicktime Alternative

Realplayer Alternative

AnyDVD

Norton Internet Security 2005

XP Pro SP2, WMP10, XPize Slipstreamed

[tap52384]

Mozilla Firefox 1.5

CCleaner

MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint 2K3

Media Player Classic 6.4.8.7

K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.45

Visual Studio .NET 2003

Oracle Calendar 10

Napster 3.5

VMWare Player

Crimson Editor

nLite 1.0 RC3

Ad-aware SE

Spybot - Search & Destroy

Alarm Clock

Diskeeper 9.0 Pro

Symantec Antivirus 10

LClock

UberIcon 1.0.1

Rainlendar 0.22

AOL Instant Messenger

Google Desktop 2

SyncToy

WS_FTP 6.0 LE

Daemon Tools 3.47

SoundCapture

IBM RecordNow!

DeadAIM 4.5

Adobe Reader 7.0.5

Photoshop CS2

Paint .NET 2.5

SoundCapture

7zip 4.32

nLited XP SP2, WMP 9 w/ Nero Burning Rom Plugin, patched uxtheme.dll, tcpip.sys

Edited December 13, 2005 by tap52384

[slimzky]

WinRAR (a must)

7-zip (a must)

Mozilla Firefox (a must)

SpywareBlaster+ spybot S&D combo

RegSupremePro + CCleaner

the oders i install on demand

[eidenk]

When I double-click on my Windows titlebars they shade like on Linux or Mac :

That's Free Shade : http://www.hmmn.org/FreeShade/

When I click on the middle mouse button I launch a menu like on Linux :

That's Cool Mouse 97 + an application launcher of your choice : http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utiliti...l_Mouse_97.html

When I do mouse gestures I can do various things such as back and forward in explorer and IE and much more :

That's Stroke-It : http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

When I double Right-Click, a menu pops with all my drives that I can browse down to the deepest directories. Double clicking on dirs opens them in Explorer. Left-Clicking on files opens them with the default associated program and right-clicking on files displays their context menu :

That's Popup Icons Ex : http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013430/pr...onsex/main.html

Annoying dialog boxes are automatically clicked on the button I have preselected and selected popup windows are automatically closed :

That's Click-Off : http://www.johanneshuebner.com/en/clickoff.html

My desktop icons background is made transparent and my start menu button is modified :

That's Hook99 : http://thunder.prohosting.com/~ladi/e_hook.html

I also can hide/unhide desktop icons totally :

That's Iconoid : http://www.sillysot.com/

My lost RAM is auto recovered :

That's Ram Idle : http://www.woundedmoon.org/win32/ramidl9x.html

Edited December 13, 2005 by eidenk

[Wicket20519]

Java

.NET Framework

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Windows Media Player

Winrar

MS Office

Symantec Anti-Virus

ATI Control Panel (heh)

Paint Shop Pro

Quicktime

Gaim

Cyberlink PowerDVD

Nero

Ad-Aware

Codecs

Steam (which in turn installs Counter-Strike)

~ teh end ~