Your 5 "Mandatory" pieces of Software

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Got this Idea from another thread, But what are your 5 personal favorites, or essential pieces of software you immediately install on any computer you have, use, fix. After trying probably hundreds of different ones from places like No Nags, Major Geeks and Snapfiles.


1. O&O Defrag

2. Regscrub XP

3. Ccleaner

4. Zone Alarm

5. A.V.G


Honorable Mention:

1. Ad-Aware SE

2. ATi-Tool

3. Winamp

4. Pc Pitstop (I know its an online thing)

5. Speedguide.net (MTU Tweak)

6. CDBurner XP Pro

7. Dogpile
 
1. Alcohol 120%

2. RealVNC

3. AIDA32

4. Norton System Works

5. Ad-Aware

Could list a bunch more but you asked for 5
 
Cool thread idea, here's hoping it doesn't get hijacked.

No particular order:

1. WinRar
2. ZoneAlarm
3. Fire Fox
4. Nero 6 suite
5. Photoshop

That was harder than I thought. But I think those are the 5 programs I would miss the most if I couldn't have them. And they are definately some of the first to be reinstalled.

Honorable Mention:
Winamp 2.8
Daemon Tools
Power DVD
 
Firefox, it just about removes the need for half the items the first 2 listed.


 
1) Drims - defrag program (Do It Right MicroSoft)
2) Norton Internet Security - hey, it might make things a bit slower, but I never get any virus or popups
3) MBM5
4) dameon Tools - I hate messing with CD's
5) Firefox
 
In order of importance...

1) Firefox
2) Process Guard
3) NOD32
4) O&O
5) jv16 PowerTools

There are more, but if I could pick only five it's those.
 
Firefox
Thunderbird
Trillian
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Dreamweaver MX
 
1 - Mozilla Firefox
2 - Foobar 2000
3 - Notepad 2 (gotta program with syntax colors afterall)
4 - PuttySSH
5 - Filzip
 
1) Firefox
2) Speedfan
3) AIM/MSN (messaging)
4) iTunes.
5) VLC.
 
1.- CCleaner
2.- WinZIP
3.- WinRAR
4.- Nero
5.- Diskeeper

:eek: I love them all :D

0ldmX
 
1. Windows XP OS
2. Service Packs
3. AVG
4. Firefox
5. ZoneAlarm
 
Sygate Personal Firewall
Firefox
Thunderbird
iTunes
Media Player Classic+Xvid codec
 
Mandatory (no order):
  1. Firefox
  2. Thunderbird
  3. Winamp 5
  4. Microsoft Office XP Professional
  5. Adobe Photoshop 5.0 (oldies but goodies, nah I'm just poor)
Really like (no order):
  1. Audacity
  2. BitTornado
  3. AVG Free Edition
  4. 3ds max 5/6
  5. Cyberlink PowerDVD
  6. Filzip (awesome, opens all archives, free)
  7. dBpowerAMP Music Converter
  8. AnalogX PacketMon
  9. Picasa2
  10. Nero 6
 
mosin said:
In order of importance...

1) Firefox
2) Process Guard
3) NOD32
4) O&O
5) jv16 PowerTools

There are more, but if I could pick only five it's those.
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thats damn close for my browser box \ malware warrior
1) Firefox
2) Process Guard
3) NOD32
4) TDS-3
5) Kerio Personal Firewall2

for the NAS
1) O&O
2) Irfanview
3) ICE ECC
4) FSUM
5) DirGraph

workstation
1) Photoshop
2) Illustrator
3) Streamline
4) Fontographer (actually this should be on the workstation but chokes on the RAM)
5) XSI

diagnostics\rescue\CDs
1) Knoppix
2) UBCD
3) BartPE
4) Knoppix STD
5) Ghost

media box
1) Media Player Classic w\ K-lite, Real & Quicktime Alternative
2) Nero
3) DVD Decrypter
4) DVD Shrink
5) Deamon Tools
 
Not counting drivers, or the OS, or all that, it's usually in this order:

Nod32 or AVG Free
Mozilla Firefox
Visual Styles (StyleXP)
Foobar2000 and needed components
ServU FTP

and much more including Nvidia DVD Decoder, Konfabulator, Trillian, etc..
 
1. Zone Alarm
2. AVG
3. Win-Zip
4. Firefox
5. no one said F@H??? c'mon people... wipe it and b0rg it!

 
1. Ghost 2003
2. Kaspersky
3. ZoneAlarm Pro
4. Opera 8
5. Winamp 5

(missing the list by a hair: TDS-3, VoptXP, Irfanview, Roxio Creator Classic & TuneUp Utilities 2004.)
 
1. Speedfan
2. Avast
3. Ad-Aware
4. Open Office
5. Firefox/Thunderbird

Others:
Spybot, AVG, DVD Shrink, CDBurnerXP, Everest, Alcohol 120%, Winamp, CCleaner
 
kerio personal firewall
avg
microsoft anti-spyware
firefox
hijackthis

then, and only then will that pc be hooked up to the net
:)
 
1. NOD32
2. Kerio personal firewall
3. Firefox
4. Acronis Trueimage 8.0 (every good little boy makes complete backups weekly)
5. Deadaim (I can't stand those popups and I love tabs)
 
(1) Firefox... with a bunch of extensions to help the user
(2) AVGFree
(3) Ad-Aware/M$ Antispyware/Spybot S&D (in my mind, they all work together as one)
(4) Folding@Home :D (A pity I don't service too many systems...)
(5) Upgrades to anything ancient (i.e. over a year old)
 
i have a dvd with software that i install everytime i re-formatt, i even made a nice little menu to make it easy, just click the name of the software and the installer starts up, the software includes


Office XP
Photoshop CS
Winamp
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Tweak UI
Trillian
My tunes redux
Azerus
Speedfan
 
1. Firefox
2. Trillian
3. WinRAR
4. O&O Defrag
5. Ventrilo
 
In no order...

Firefox.
F@H.
Office. Come on people don't you have *ANY* productivity apps? :p
O&O.
Ultimate Boot CD. OK, I'm cheating here, it's a collection of tools. But it's one download ;)
 
Works is a productivity app... it comes with WinXP.

Okay. Works sucks. But it does count.

And no I don't use it :rolleyes:
 
i think you are mistaken with your assumption that works comes with windows, everytime i have installed xp all i get are notepad and wordpad.

maybe if you install from some dell CDs or something like that, just a side note- i also included office xp in my list ;)
 
compslckr said:
i think you are mistaken with your assumption that works comes with windows, everytime i have installed xp all i get are notepad and wordpad.

maybe if you install from some dell CDs or something like that, just a side note- i also included office xp in my list ;)
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Dell
Toshiba
eMachines

That's the list of computers I've got with Works preinstalled so far.

I'd put office xp on there, too, but that would mean pirating it or getting a corporate license. I don't have money for a corporate license, and I'd rather not incur the wrath of M$ right now, so I'm not going to pirate it.
 
I dont use Windows Office in any version
why would you when Open Office is available for free?

maybe if you need outlook integration...
 
Ice Czar said:
I dont use Windows Office in any version
why would you when Open Office is available for free?

maybe if you need outlook integration...
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Gah, I support it so, eat your own dog food... Nothing against open office, but it's only listed once. ;)

Going through everyone's lists I'm really shocked at the lack of actual productivity apps. Several people list -0- of them on their top 5. From those lists you would think all the people do is keep their machine protected/maintained and surf the web. :D
 
@Ice Czar: Hmm. Lemme take a look at OpenOffice... if it can save in *.doc format, and mimics Word well enough... I might think about switching.

---LATER---

Geez that site has a ridiculous loadtime. It's not really even T1-over-a-LAN friendly... meaning if I try to access it at home (56k modem that *never* gets better than 38k) it'd burn down the house.

---MUCH, MUCH LATER---

Doesn't look as advanced as MS Office, but I'm willing to give it a shot. I'll download it next time I'm at college again (should be about a week or so) and give it a shot.

@ Phoenix86: I assume that whoever's computer I'm working on either already has productivity software on it (which may need upgrading) or they don't use it for anything but Websurfing and games.
 
meh "work" is done on the workstation :p

for a mod\admin whose job is to click links
security is productivity software :p

and most of my web oriented coding can be done in notepad
though I do use Open Office, Metapad and NoteTab Light


Open Office will both read and save word, excell ect
and is basically its match unless your really into advanced excell features
 
So OpenOffice and Word have all the same features? I'll look into it then. I probably won't give up Office XP entirely, but I might switch most of my stuff to OpenOffice if I use it and like it.

Main thing for me is that I need it to default to saving/opening *.doc files, since most people use Word.
 
Ice Czar said:
for a mod\admin whose job is to click links security is productivity software :p
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I knew you were going to say that, dammit, walked into that one. But then again, how many people here fit that description? 2, 3? ;)

Ice Czar said:
Open Office will both read and save word, excell ect and is basically its match unless your really into advanced excell features
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Oh, that's the other thing... Excel macro support, gotta have it for some of the docs I touch.

Open office will work for 80-90% of office users who just use basic word/excel features. Good stuff.

Its funny how much you can learn about someone's computing habbits from this simple list. :D
 
1. Firefox!
2. Alc 120%
3. Excel, acess, word
4. Anti Spyware (MS, S&D)
5. Winrar
 
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