Your Golden Progz?

uTorrent
Foobar
Opera
Photoshop
CDBurnerXP
Xfire
Rocketdock
Rainlendar
CCleaner
Media Player Classic
O&O Defrag
Spybot S&D
Filezilla
ConvertXtoDVD
DTools Pro
 
Some programs that I have became fully adapted and real loyal to are...

Winamp v5.0 (or older)
VLC Media-Player
Mozilla Firefox
Audacity
uTorrent
Spybot S&D
Soulseek
FlashFXP
MagicISO
DVD Decrypter
PartitionMagic 8.0
 
I'm surprised so many people have mentioned ImgBurn and Nero but not UltraISO.

I really like the simplicity, small footprint of it, and how it works on every platform I've tried it on. 32-bit Win2K to 64-bit Vista/Server 2008.
 
I could list a ton of things, but I guess I will just name the things I go to first whenever I do an install.

On Windows:
Firefox
Winamp
AVG
WinRAR
Pidgin
FileZilla
Photoshop

On OS X
Safari, iChat, and iTunes... don't install those, but you know what I mean ;)
Cyberduck
Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Fireworks
Pages
Final Cut
 
These are running 24/7
foobar2000
utorrent
trillian
steam

These are my must haves.
extractnow
firefox (adblockplus)
alcohol 120%
klite codecpack (WMC)
 
Nero 7
VLC
Paint Shop Pro XI
WinRAR
Yahoo Messenger
Visual Studio 2005
Daemon Tools
Steam
FireFox (for testing)
PowerShell
Acrobat Reader 8 (love/hate)
my suite of homemade utilities
 
What an incredible thread. This is invaluable information.

w/Vista SP1 x64

- Alcohol 120%
- CloneCD
- K-Lite Codec Pack
- Antivir
- Spybot
- Ad-aware
- O&O Defrag
- Vista Manager
- latest Directx
- Last.FM
- Winamp
- Firefox w/Foxmarks plugin
- CDex
- all the 3Dmark/PCmarks
- Steam
 
µTorrent http://www.utorrent.com/
7zip http://www.7-zip.org/
DVD Decrypter google it
DVD Shrink google it
Ripit4Me google it
NOD32 http://www.eset.com/
File Shredder 2.0 http://www.fileshredder.org/
Foxit Reader http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
InfraRecorder http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/
Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/
MediaCoder http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
Visual Studio Microsoft
Dreamweaver Adobe
Truecrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/
Trillian http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/
VLC http://www.videolan.org
Ventrilo http://www.ventrilo.com/
WinSCP http://winscp.net/
PuTTY http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
VirtualDubMod http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/
Xvid Codec http://www.xvid.org
Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/
Thunderbird http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
WinMerge http://winmerge.org/
WinMD5sum http://www.nullriver.com/products/winmd5sum
Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
JEdit http://www.jedit.org/

My tech tools:
Process Monitor v1.26 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
TrendMicro Sysclean (program: http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp | pattern file:http://www.trendmicro.com/download/pattern.asp)
TrendMicro HijackThis http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en...ols/hijackthis
Security TaskManager http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/
File Assassin http://www.malwarebytes.org/fileassassin.php
CCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/
System Information for Windows http://www.gtopala.com/ ***this is an incredible tool
Unknown Devices http://halfdone.com/ukd/ ***also a good tool
HDTune http://www.hdtune.com/
UBCD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
UBCD4Win http://www.ubcd4win.com/
Knoppix (LiveOS) http://www.knoppix.org/
 
Mine is pretty simple(This is pretty much everything installed on my computer):
ImgBurn
Symantec Corporate Antivirus
Firefox (With ABP and Foxmarks)
Daemon Tools
VLC Media Payer
Virtual PC 2007
WinRAR
QuickPAR
CCleaner
Acronis True Image Home (Once every two weeks, I roll back, update everything and make a new snapshot)
Putty
Paintshop Pro 6 (I know its from 1999, but it works for what I need it for)


(I have Hellanzb on my fileserver for NNTP leeching)
 
Youri Carma said:
- Cleanup!
- CCleaner
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Don't these two do basically the same thing? Why have two progs installed that do the same thing?

My golden appz are:


Photoshop
Pagemaker
Illustrator
Spbot
Spywareblaster
AVG
AVG Anti Rootkit
Adaware
Super Antispware
WinRar
CCleaner
Auslogics Disk Defrag (just because it is a lot faster than win defrag)
Open Office
WinAmp
Foobar
Deepburner
Utorrent
VLC
PowerDVD
Firefox w/noscript
Thunderbird
Grabit! (binary downloader for Usenet)
Steam
Acronis True Image
MP3Tag
Eraser
Ultimate Boot Disk
Hirens Boot CD 8.8
Foxit
Xvid
Everest
3DMark
 
Mozilla Firefox
7-zip
AVG Antivirus
Spybot Search & Destory
Winamp mp3 player
VLC Media Player
ABC Bittorrent
Nero Burning Rom
Ventrilo
Adobe Photoshop
notepad
MS Office 2007
 
Essential GOLDEN PROGZ - survives post-XP reformatting
Microsoft Office 2003
-Firefox & Opera - gotta have mouse gestures and speed dial
-Diskeeper
-WinRar
-DVD Shrink
-Notepad :)
-Unlocker - unload file locks if it is there
-ccleaner
-faststone maxview - image viewer
-winamp - yes it is bulky and bloated but i have not found a better mp3 library manager
-nero lite
-tweakUI - you can customize almost everything
-windows live messenger
- foxIT reader - pdf reading fast

-uTorrent

anti-spyware apps:
-spybot search and destroy
-AVG
-highjack this

Overclocking tools:
-cpu-z
-riva tuner
-ati tool - 0 artifacts plz
-core temp
-orthos
-TAT - make your cpu high max temps

Photo Editing
-Photoshop
-a better than file renamer

Video playback
WMP 11
K-Lite codec - best thing i discovered last week - dolby 5.1?! Replaces my ac3/xvid/divx combo
 
  • VLC
  • Vmware
  • Pidgin (gaim)
  • mIRC
  • Firefox
  • CCleaner
  • Winamp
  • OpenOffice
  • PuTTYTray
  • TrueCrypt
  • Photoshop
  • Visual Studio
  • Cpu-Z
  • AVG
  • Rivatuner
  • Speedfan
  • Call of Duty 4 :)
 
This should be fun to compile!

Here we go:

Adobe Photoshop
Daemon Tools
Firefox
Foxit Reader
Microsoft Office
Rivatuner
Steam
VLC
Winamp
WinRAR
uTorrent
FlashFXP
Pidgin
TuneUp Utilities

I find myself installing every single one of these programs whenever I end up reformatting my harddrive.
 
adaware
aim
cfosspeed
daemon tools
firefox
fraps
hamachi
nero
spybot
ultraVNC
VLC media player
utorrent
winamp
winrar
yasu
 
Programmes that need to get installed after a fresh reformat:

Foobar2000
Office 2007
FoxIt Reader
VLC Player
µTorrent
NewsBin Pro
Perfect Disk
Firefox
MSN Messenger/Digsby
ImgBurn
Exact Audio Copy
7zip
 
This thread is to tell other people which are your Golden Progz also for Vista.

Which programs you cannot do without when you are installing a fresh OS.

If these progz are your tweaking progz which you realy need to get the right feeling about

running your OS or other progz also very welcome.

This way we can learn fom each other experiences on these matter.
 
Fraps - Shows your fps
Nod32 - Anti Vir
Zone Alarm - way better than Window's firewall
Speedfan - shows your temps
CPUz - Cpu info
GPUz - GPU info
Riva Tuner - GPU overclocking
ZoomPlayer - A very compact media player with options to install codecs from there server. It will play any kind of file when others won't
Winamp - stay away from itunes
ConvertXtoDVD - burn any kind of video files to dvd files with MENUs !!!!!!! love it and real easy
uTorrent - light weight torrent downloader
PowerISO - mount and burn your ISO files
Alchohol 120% - some download media files req this prog. still pretty good
Limewire - best prog to download single songs
Office 2007 - If you work or go to school you need it, nuff said
Mozilla Firefox - best internet browser
SiSoftware - shows your computer specs, everything from softwares to hardwares
 
Mines change depending on my mood when reformatting, but it basically stays the same unless I decide to add something else.

MS Office
ad-aware
spy-bot S&D
peerguardian2
Nero
utorrent
avast!
avg anti-spyware
daemon tools
alchohol 120%
anydvd
dvddecryptor (for more demanding dvd tasks)
dvd shrink (simple and effective)
VLC player
Photoshop
firefox
opera
CPUz
GPUz

I have so many more but it's slipping my mind today, oh well thats the brunt of them.
 
I prefer to have my system as light as possible.
Meaning after a new installation I firstly try to get rid of the ballast, and then only install the bare necessary things.


o Vista or XP or Linux bases OS like Ubuntu

o Office 2007

o SoulSeek (ugly interface but the most intuitive sound files p2p client)

o CCleaner (clean up of all the little vomit accumulating over the time)

o Photoshop (if you can imagine it - photoshop can make it)

o Halo-Combat Evolved (I know that's not an application, but this should be default game of any OS, next to Mah Jong)
Did you know that you don't need to have the CD in the player anymore when updated to V1.08 ? YAY !

o As antivius I can recommend Kasperski Internet Security (that's all you ever need, if you need anything at all that means)


by the way ... I deleted some pictures by accident completely.
Thank to Google I found a great little program called UNDELETE PLUS.
With the help of this little application I could browse through everything I had wiped off in the past and got my pictures back this way.
Awesome little tool !!
 
uTorrent
AIM and Gtalk - I have dual monitors, dont really need them combined into a single prog or anything.
7zip
Combined Community Codec Pack + Media Player Classic
Magic ISO
Daemon Tools -
Foobar2000 - Better than winamp.
Opera - Best Browser evar!
Nod32 - Never had to use it, but makes me sleep better at night.
 
To be honest, no wonder people's machines bog down with all this "crap" running on them.
 
devman said:
Elaborate?
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If you come accross different people's IT issues, you'd find out that too much clutter is one of the most common reasons for corruption and PC's becoming unstable.

Programs are not always written clean (and to be 100% compatible with everything within the PC environment).
The more you've got running (primary or secondary), the more it is bound for complications / crashes / ect ect to happen.
 
Cov said:
If you come accross different people's IT issues, you'd find out that too much clutter is one of the most common reasons for corruption and PC's becoming unstable.

Programs are not always written clean (and to be 100% compatible with everything within the PC environment).
The more you've got running (primary or secondary), the more it is bound for complications / crashes / ect ect to happen.
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I have many of the programs listed on this thread running. Knock on wood but my system runs w/o problems. What i don't like are:
photoshop cs3 - runs programs in-memory
visual studio/sql - stable but still lots of things running
adobe acrobat - gawd i don't like the loads but it is still stable.

+1 for office 2007. I've been using it for about a month and it is VERY different from older versions of office. It will take time to get used to.
 
Mac:
Quicksilver
TextWrangler
PS CS3
iPhoto
Parallels
Firefox
Adium
iTunes
Toast
Office 2008
handbrake
VLC
Super Duper!
Eavesdrop
Audacity
Front Row
Flickr uploader
Dropbox
iSquint
iSync
NewsFire
Skitch
Solitaire XL
Transmission
USB Overdrive X
X-Moto
StuffIt


Windoze:
Office 2007
Winamp
Hyper Terminal
pidgin
uTorrent
iTunes
adaware
spybot
winRAR
VLC
 
CutePDF Professional
VLC
ImgBurn
MediaCoder
CloneDVD
DVDFab
Digsby
Firefox (in addition to Internet Explorer 7 of course)
PuTTY
Notepad ++
Office 2007
AnyDVD
Photoshop CS3
Gmail Notifier
IZArc
SuperAntiSpyware
 
Psexec (automated installs ftw)
Firefox
Filezilla
Avast Antivirus
uTorrent
Winamp
iTunes (purchases only)
VLC Media Player
Divx Media Player (plus the plugin for Windows Media Player)
WinRAR
MagicISO
 
I'll add to this sony soundforge, awesome program for sound editing.
 
Sorry, can I just add my experience with a little, powerful tool called Launchy which I have heard of the first time in this very thread.

Out of curiousity I gave it a try and oh boy, .... I am very selective of what I use but this little prg is one of the best.

It does what all programs supposed to do ... it stays in the background until you hit ALT + Space .... a little window comes up where you put in the first letter(s) of whatever you wanna lauch ... and it does exactly what it says on then tin. It starts websites as well as enables you to search for documents, soundfiles, pics .....

Sounds simple, and you might say we could use the "run" feature but I would say this is superior over the "run" feature .... you only type in one or more letters and it gives suggestions .... ----> after a few minutes practise you start applications in a FLASH !! ... and I'm not exaggerating.

No need for icons anymore ;)

10 out of 10 !!
 
Cov said:
Sorry, can I just add my experience with a little, powerful tool called Launchy which I have heard of the first time in this very thread.

Out of curiousity I gave it a try and oh boy, .... I am very selective of what I use but this little prg is one of the best.

It does what all programs supposed to do ... it stays in the background until you hit ALT + Space .... a little window comes up where you put in the first letter(s) of whatever you wanna lauch ... and it does exactly what it says on then tin. It starts websites as well as enables you to search for documents, soundfiles, pics .....

Sounds simple, and you might say we could use the "run" feature but I would say this is superior over the "run" feature .... you only type in one or more letters and it gives suggestions .... ----> after a few minutes practise you start applications in a FLASH !! ... and I'm not exaggerating.

No need for icons anymore ;)

10 out of 10 !!
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Doesn't Vista search do the same thing? Give Vista time to index your drives and you'll be able to launch software with a couple letters.

If I type ph in Vista's search bar, Photoshop launches, for example.
 
Yes, Vista has such a feature already built in. However, Launchy is great for those who still use XP.
 
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