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What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - FallenMemory - 2010-06-30

Hi. The answers I get to this question are always interesting. Obviously there are some generic answers (Firefox, Chrome, Word, Antivirus, etc), but I'm curious, what do YOU install on a brand new PC?

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Hazzy - 2010-06-30

My sister just got her computer back after a virus. Vista was reinstalled. (No 7 Drivers)

Winrar
Firefox
+Addons
  • WOT
  • AdBlock Plus
  • FEBE
  • Flash, Java, et cetera
Rainmeter
Skype
GameBooster

If it were mine, I would have continued with AIM, Notepad++, CS4/5, Office, Paint.net, and my backed-up Firefox Addons. (I have like 20 that FEBE backs up every week)

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Spaz - 2010-06-30

  • Firefox with: Live HTTP Headers, oldbar, QuickJava
  • Stepmania
  • Visual C# 2008
  • Visual C++ 2008
  • TortoiseSVN
  • NUnit
  • Notepad++
  • Paint.NET
  • Audacity
  • QuickREX
  • DDReam Studio
  • DFO
  • DFOCP
  • DNF Extractor
  • DOSBox
  • KVIrc or XChat
  • PuTTY
  • WinSCP
  • Process Explorer
  • Autoruns
  • 7-zip
  • Pidgin
  • Winamp
  • Xfire


What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Adramelech - 2010-07-01

Ad Aware , Nod32
Adobe Master Collection CS3
Corel Painter X
Paint.net
7-zip
VLC Media Player
Bittorrent
.Net framework
Chrome and Firefox
DesmusMe
Visual Boy Advance
Real Player
Messenger
Aol ( proxy purposes)
Skype
Xpadder
Jdownloader
HP Soulution Center (printer/fax/scanner app)
Microsoft Office 2009
iTunes
Sony Vegas 9.0
VPN Client Manager
Daemon Tools Lite
ABGX360
IMG Burn
DVD Decrypter
Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne
Navicat
MySQL
Java

those are the one that come to mind. hehe

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Lozmaster - 2010-07-01

Firefox + addons
Steam
-Team fortress 2
-other steam games
Adobe PDF reader
Microsoft office
Maple (Not maplestory, it's a math computer software)

Then anything as i need it really, but those are the things I'd probably do immediately.

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Fiel - 2010-07-01

Python 2.6 with WingIDE
MSVC++ 2008
MSVC# 2008
Maplestory KMS, KMST, GMS, MSEA
7-zip
VLC Player
Microsoft Office
ExamDiff Pro
mIRC
AIM
UltraISO
FileZilla
PuTTY
Starcraft
FlashGet

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Nikkey - 2010-07-01

7-Zip
F.lux (Honestly, check it out)
Firefox
(Foobar 2k)
Hamachi
Heroes of Newerth
Media Player Classic
Notepad++
OpenOffice
(PowerISO)
Programming languages: Haskell, CLisp, clojure, Erlang, Python (pypy), java, gcc, tex...
Skype
Spotify
Vim
(µTorrent)

Those in parens if I don't have any other computer available.

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Kabanaw - 2010-07-01

Honestly, whenever I need to install programs on a computer I use http://www.ninite.com. It installs essentially everything I want with no hastle.

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Rob - 2010-07-01

[color="#000080"]
Devil's Sunrise Wrote:F.lux (Honestly, check it out)

You have turned my life awesome. [/color]

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Kalovale - 2010-07-01

Rob Wrote: [color="#000080"]

You have turned my life awesome. [/color]

How do I know how dark is good for my eyes?

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Rob - 2010-07-01

[color="#000080"]
Kalovale Wrote:How do I know how dark is good for my eyes?

The program auto adjusts that. [/color]

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Roxas - 2010-07-01

  • Google Chrome, Safari, Mozilla Firefox (I'm a webdesigner ok)
  • Microsoft Security Essentials (AntiVirus
  • Windows Live Essentials (MSN, etc)
  • Adobe Creative Suite CS5 (Design stuff)
  • Microsoft Office 2010 (Word Processing)
  • iTunes (iPod Syncing, Music)
  • mIRC UPP (mIRC client)
  • uTorrent (Porn)
  • Microsoft Silverlight (SDK, Windows Phone SDK to develop Apps)
  • 7zip (Extraction Software)
  • Last.fm (Last.FM tracker)
  • Zune (Secondary Music player for when iTunes is being a peach)
  • Wakoopa (Tracker, but for programs)
  • Taskbar Activate (Look what program is using which files if it doesn't let you close it.)
  • F.lux (Look at DevilSunrise's post)
  • Synctoy (Syncs content across External HDD and Desktop comp)
  • CCCP (Video Codecs to play almost everything)
  • GOMPlayer (To play videos WMP can't play)
  • VLC (Play Videos neither GOM or WMP can play)


What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - ItachiPower - 2010-07-01

Chrome
MSN
uTorrent
Soluto (speeds up booting)
TF2
Open Office
Gang Garrison 2
CCleaner
Steam

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Manu - 2010-07-01

Whao some people install lots of things, considering every single silly software I'd get
  • BS Player
  • iTunes
  • Media Player Classic
  • Maplestory
  • Photoshop
  • Macromedia Flash 8
  • Msn
  • Chrome
  • Winrar
  • Ad Aware
  • Spybot S&D
  • IMG burn
  • Ares
  • Bit Torrent
  • Fraps
  • xPadder

That'd probably be it o,o but some of those I wouldn't download right away, only when needed for the first time.

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Horusmaster - 2010-07-01

The stuff I installed when I first got this laptop were:
Firefox
MSN
腾讯QQ （Like MSN)
QQ游戏 (Like MSN Games but 1000x better)
迅雷5 (Fastest torrenting software when downloading from Chinese sites)
CCleaner
Adobe Flash
Java
Google Talks
Google Desktop
Google Earth
OpenOffice
搜狗拼音输入法 (To type Chinese)
WinRAR

Other stuff I installed later:
Firefox Preloader (to speed up firefox startup time)
Google Chrome (Since Firefox is still so slow)
搜狗高速浏览器 （a browser that can switch between webkit and IE rendering engine in 1 click, have build in features such as adblock, volume control, proxy incognito mode. a lot faster than chrome, but no extensions. Website suggestion is based on sogou.com (chinese search engine) instead of google.com)
aMSN (since MSN failed)
Trillian (Since MSN failed and aMSN is slow)
CheatEngine (lol hacks)
跑跑卡丁车 (chinese kartrider)
poptag
Fraps
Picasa3
Real Player
Putty (for school work)
VirtualBox (run ubuntu on top of windows, for school)

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - butterfλi - 2010-07-01

Chrome + Firefox - web browser
Windows Live Messenger - chattan
Winamp - music player
Winrar - extractor
Unlocker - solves the "THIS FILE IS IN USE BY PROGRAM YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WAS RUNNING. CANNOT DELETE" message.
Microsoft Werd
Adobe Fireworks - image editor
Adobe Dreamweaver - web editor
Adobe Audition - music editor
Synthesia - Piano/midi/sheets music
Xilisoft Video Converter - the best movie converter
Rainmeter - Visually monitor CPU/RAM/CPU temps
TouchMouse server - Remote control mouse
TeamViewer - Remote control desktop
Audio Server - "WiFi" (through internet) speakers/headphones
Documents To Go - Sync documents with iTouch
iTunes - syncing iTouch
Combined Community Codec Pack - multi-purpose video player/codec
iPhone Browser - Tweak iPhone
uTorrent - pirates are free
Warcraft 3 - for the horde
N64/SNES/Gameboy emulators
Last.fm
Fraps - for whenever
Notepad++ - all-in-one language editor
CCleaner - delete system32. make computer faster.
Speedfan - CPU temp monitor

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - madanthony - 2010-07-01

Immediately upon getting new computer- or more commonly reformatting:
FF
Windows Security Essentials
iTunes
uTorrent
CCleaner
VLC
Skype
Office
Necessary plugins like Java, Flash, etc

Everything else I kinda grab as the need for it pops up.
Steam
Paint.NET
Revo Uninstaller
Some sort of compressed file extractor. I think I randomly swap between 3 or 4. There's usually a different one on my computer every time I reformat. Hell if I know why I do that.
Daemon
SumatraPDF
Emulators

Lifehacker frequently features some nice stuff I like to grab
http://lifehacker.com/5271828/lifehacker-pack-2009-our-list-of-essential-free-windows-downloads
And I'd liketo thank the lot of you for introducing me to FEBE and F.lux

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - iamflip - 2010-07-02

Most essential stuff in order:
Anti-virus
Firewall software (or Windows Firewall with Win7)
Firefox and Chrome
7-zip
Video and audio drivers
Update/install all other drivers and accessories
KLite codec pack
Winamp
YIM, MSN, and Skype

Other stuff as needed that's not in any order whatsoever:
Steam
> TF2
> CS:S
> L4D and L4D2
Maple
ijji Reactor
Vuze
Emulators
VhScrCap package / SCFH DSF (for casting)
Adobe Flash Media Encoder (for casting)
Livestream Procaster (for casting on Livestream only lol)
Photoshop
Flash
Microsoft Office
Java
ImgBurn (awesome iso->cd software that's free and easy to use)
X-Fire
DAEMON Tools
TeamViewer
Fraps
Microsoft Visual C++
Ventrilo
Teamspeak

Probably missed a few somewhere, but yeah... I sorta need quite a bit. Tongue

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - tzk221 - 2010-07-02

Windows Updates
Microsoft Updates
Sidebar Gadgets (clock, All CPU Meter, Network Meter, Batter Meter, Screen Brightness meter)
HP Software Updates
Firefox (add-ons: NoScript, Adblock Plus, Web of Trust, Chatzilla!, Download Statusbar, DownThemAll!, FlashGot, Flagfox, Strata40, StrataBuddy, App Tabs, Fission, Tab Progress Bar)
Google Chrome
Adobe Flash, Shockwave
Avira Antivir
Malwarebytes
OpenOffice
7-Zip
iTunes + Quicktime
Java
Paint.NET
Skype
Trillian
VLC Media Player
Foxit Reader (probably going to switch to Nitro soon)
CCleaner

What programs would you install on a brand new PC? - Dyxanije - 2010-07-02

Firefox/Chrome
CCCP
uTorrent
WinAce
iTunes
FeedDemon
AIM/MSN
XChat
Steam
WeGame
Last.fm
Malwarebytes
Open Office