I just had to format my windows partition wich deleted all my installed programs. I still have most of them on the other HDD, but I thought that your advise would be priceless (like MasterCard).
So here comes the question: What (Windows) software couldn't you live without?

If possible offer free programs since I don't have enough money and I don't bother to crack software .

Suggestions are gladly welcome

Messenger Plus!
Rainlendar
Winamp
Tavultesoft Keyman
Stone's WebWriter
Mozilla

You might not know or need all, but these are all freeware (for personal use)

Plus!

And abc.exe It's an Bittorent Client.
Kazaa K lite K++
MSN
Ad-Aware
Panda Anti-Virus
iTunes

And a Lot more, but lets keep it at this

What are yours?

EDIT: Added links

Apple stuff: Quicktime,ITUNES
Imaging and animation:Fireworks MX 2004, Flash MX 2004, Photoshop CS, Adobe Premier
File Sharing: KaZaA Lite K++, Nova Torrent
Burning programs: Nero
Broswers: Firefox 0.8
Anti adware & spyware: Sybot S&D AND Adaware ( <-- both)
Norton: Nortan AV, Norton Ghost (woulda helped you b4 you formatted your HD )
IM: MSN messenger with Plus! (duh ), MIRC, MEssenger2
Extractors: Ultra ISO, WinRar
Navigation: Streets and Trips 2004
Skinning: Windowblinds
Ram optimizor: Free Ram XP Pro
FTP: WS FTP
Games: Gunbound, Tribes, Battlefield 1942
Essentials: M$ Outlook, Publisher, Word


Shall I go on?

Well, Messenger Plus seems kinda obvious.

My CPU got melted by a defective liquid refigeration (it lose liquid over the motherboard ) and it screw up both. Luckily my HDD remained intact. Ibought new CPU and MB and had to format windows partition in order to reinstall it (dunno why, I reinstalled windows thousands of times without having to format it... but w/e).

Btw, I think I will be able to live without Firefox or PS. I'll try to use GIMP2 from now on .

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Windowblinds

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Graphic Design and Visuals : Adobe Photoshop , Paint , I-Candy Junior Foood Icons , Cursor XP.

Internet Related : FireFox , MSN Messenger , Messenger Plus!

Other : VB6 , Winamp

Chatprogs: MSN Messenger + messenger plus, Yahoo messenger, mIRC

Graphic: Photopaint, Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw

Texteditor: Word

Browser: MyIE

E-mail: Pocomail

Anti virus: AntiVir Guard (free prog)

Firewall: Sygate Firewall

Anti Adware/spywareprogs: Adaware, Spybot S&D, Spywareguard, Spywareblaster (all freeware)

Download prog P2P: WinMX (free)

Music/vid-Player: Winamp

Archive/extractingprog: Picozip

CD-burner: NERO Burning Rom

I have a DVD burner and 2 Hard-Drives, so I have no prob. re-installing things after re-formatting...you should invest in one

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Originally posted by gigablade77
I have a DVD burner and 2 Hard-Drives, so I have no prob. re-installing things after re-formatting...you should invest in one

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Originally posted by gigablade77
I have a DVD burner and 2 Hard-Drives, so I have no prob. re-installing things after re-formatting...you should invest in one

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I'll tell it again: My CPU melt. I didn't tell it to wait until I had backed up my files. I still have my programs, but I'm to lazy to reinstall them.
I only had to format a 10GB partition only windows uses (almost nothing is installed there). But the libraries and the register entries got lost.

My total memory is 0.28TB, enough for having loooots of programs. But well, maybe new ideas could make life easier.

i forward you to the first post: Software you can't live without.

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Fruity Loops 4.5 Producer Edition (Music Creation Program)
Real Player
Front Page 2003
Visual Basic 6.0
Msn Messenger 6
Dreamweaver

Well, you said Windows software,  but I'm gonna list my Mac software here as well.

Mac
Mac OS X (well, its an OS... but still)
Mail
iMovie
iPhoto
iChat
MSN Messenger
Safari
Konfabulator
StuffIt
MS Office (I use clones as well [besides MS Office])
iTunes
Quicktime
GarageBand
Dreamweaver
Photoshop
MSN Messenger
Plus! (Oh, wait, it hasn't been ported... NVM)
F@H
etc.

Windows
iTunes
Quicktime
FireFox
Thunderbird
Dreamweaver
MSN Messenger
F@H
Plus!

Windows software I could live without:
Windows itself.

erm....  probably same as most people...

Messenger Plus!
Rainlendar
Winamp
Mozilla
Desktop Stripper
MSN
Solitaire (Boredom Helper)
Ad-Aware
Paint - @ NoName
Photoshop
VB6
MSWord
Norton AV/IS
....... and...

im goin with GIMP great program, very useful and FREE :b

Visual Basic 6, Microsoft Internet Explorer(), and sometimes API-Guide .

Oh and ofcourse Messenger Plus!

i guess
:
plus!
msn messenger
norton antivirus
firefox

Visual C++
Outlook
Adobe Photoshop
CuteFTP
FrontPage
Norton Antivirus
CoolEdit Pro

Netscape..... mouhahahaha haaaa, it's good to laugh

omg he could live without his own programe plus !!!

uhh.. well, since there's enough alternative shit, I can live without most programs. I mean, there are thousands of mail-programs. So who cares? But I like Opera's special features. aMSN would also be on my list, I think.. Let me take someone else's list..

Apple stuff: Nope
Imaging and animation: Gimp
File Sharing: I don't do that
Burning programs: Don't do that either (well, haven't done that for a month or 2). K3b maybe? But there are probably lots of alternatives
Browsers: Opera Konqueror is also nice (and it is also a filebrowser)
Anti adware & spyware: Don't need that
Norton: Nope
IM: aMSN
Extractors: Ark [couldn't find website]
Navigation: Nope
Skinning: Why would I need that? I don't need special programs just to change my toolbar a bit
Ram optimizor: is that any good?
FTP: I really like gFTP, but it isn't anything special. It's like WS_FTP LE
Games: not on my PC, Frozen-bubble!! Rocks!! but I really like my NGC games
Editors: uhhh... OpenOffice for school.. Kate as editor (not to write letters and stuff, I use OpenOffice for that )
Mail: KMail
Multimedia: XMMS (WinAmp clone for Linux)

Edit: Added links+Mailers+Frozen-bubble in games+multimedia+added the following:

All are free (as in bear, and as in speech), except my NGC Games, and Opera (Opera has a little ad and isn't "free" as in speech).

paint shop pro
Gilly Messenger (custom msn client )
mozilla
(no url available) visual basic
Microangelo
winmx

oh and... smartftp maybe

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Originally posted by pipish
omg he could live without his own programe plus !!!

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Messenger Plus!
MSN Messenger
MSIE
Visual Basic 6.0
Adobe Photoshop
Corel Draw
Windows Media Player
Microsoft Office
and any P2P progy...

If you are on a network, get share watch, or something similar.

Lets you disconnect people who leech multiple 'things' at once, well lets you disconnect them easily


Much like this stacey person, getting 6 movies off me at once

hmm

Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Outlook
mIRC
Winamp
EditPlus
Secure Shell Client / Secure File Transfer Client
Adobe Photoshop CS
Rainlender
Samurize

At the moment, Macromedia Flash MX, as I am using it to complete some client work.

Ms Dos 6.22 (for old games it is a must)
Windows (since almost everything runs on it I may aswell use it)
Gentoo 2004 (testbed OS)
WinAmp 5.03 Pro(my music is King)
Power Tabs (for my Guitars)
MSN & Plus! 3 (Well if I didn't have them why would I be here)
AVG 6.0 (free antivirus) www.grisoft.com
Outlook Express (bog standard mail client)
Avant Browser (based on IE6 but so much better) www.avantbrowser.com
nVidia Drivers (I use ATi atm but they suck so I keep nVidia for fond memories)
Championship Manager (did I mention I am in my 17th season )
AceFTP 3 Freeware (Need this to upload to my webspace)
Skype (for calling my friends around the world)
Ares Galaxy (useful for those Music Vids)
Power DVD (if you don't know what this does, what rock you been living under?)
Nero 6.3 Ultra (it does it's job)
OSS Video Converter Pro (name says it all)
Tsunami Filter pack (Video Codecs)

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Originally posted by DJeX
Front Page 2003

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Originally posted by Patchou
FrontPage

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only 3 for me

messenger

avant

Hm I've seen many really interesting suggestions.

What free compression software would you advise, I need one, but I'm sick of all shareware's (winzip, winrar and winace)?
Btw, I don't like 7-Zip

7-zip is the best, really

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Hm I've seen many really interesting suggestions.

What free compression software would you advise, I need one, but I'm sick of all shareware's (winzip, winrar and winace)?
Btw, I don't like 7-Zip

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Originally posted by PlusFan
I use Ark, think it's Linux-only, though

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fedora

I forgot a couple:
-Frontpage 2003
-WinRAR
-Babylon

i really dont know

id probably install

drivers for my hardware
opera
ws ftp
messenger
panda av
plus

of course i could live without all of these, but i guess the pc comes into the 2nd level of maslow's theory for me so pretty important

FTP Client
Yahoo Messenger (lol)
WinRar OR Winzip
Gateway GoBack(for gateways)
Internet Explorer 6.0
Netscape
Spybot S@D
Ad-Aware
AIM

I couldn't live without:
Borland Delphi
ACDSee32 v2.14
RealDRAW Pro
Axialis IconWorkshop
Winamp
BSPlayer
MSN Messenger + Plus!
WinHTTrack
SmartFTP
GetRight
MailWasher
Microsoft Office
CDex
Tag&Rename
Easy CD Creator
VMWare
WinRAR
PowerToys for Windows XP
Rainlendar
SpyBot
SpywareBlaster
SpywareGuard

Maybe that's why reinstalling Windows takes me so long

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
Hm I've seen many really interesting suggestions.

What free compression software would you advise, I need one, but I'm sick of all shareware's (winzip, winrar and winace)?
Btw, I don't like 7-Zip

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What IRC client?
I don't like shareware... so mIRC won't be that...
IRCap is very good, but it's based on mIRC and mIRC expires... .

Well, what are your ideas?

I dunno....I have a few...

Mozilla Suite(full leaded version is always good)
mIRC + Hopper (for in school IRC)
Windows X - MSN Messenger
Messenger Plus! 3
Fruity Loops 4
Winamp (internet radio)
Windows Media Player (media files)
Kazaa Lite Resurrection (more tools than K++)
Spybot Search & Destroy
Symantec Anti-Virus

Software I could live without:
IE (except for Winblows Update)

Msn 6.1 with plus
Serials2000
Nero
Bryce5
Avant browser
DOWNLOAD ACCELERATOR 5,
Winamp + EvilLyrics
BSPLAYER
CuteFTP Pro
Anti leech plugin (to get free easy music) but sites are down
DC++ Stealth
Spybot Search and Destroy

and i think thats it..

Microsoft Office
Adobe
Avant
FlashGet
Ad-aware
Spybot
Winamp
ZoneAlarm
M/W Messenger
WMP

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Originally posted by saralk
drivers for my hardware

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Originally posted by saralk
drivers for my hardware

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I couldn't live without

• Drivers
  
• MSN Messenger
  
• Plus!
  
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
• Adobe Photoshop 6
  
• Winamp
  
• Office 2000
  
• Frontpage
  
• Easy Cd Creator 5
  
• SkinnerToo (Winamp Skinning Tool)
  
• Ad-aware
  
• Norton Anti-virus 2002
  
• Scan Image
  
• Create-a-card Gold 2
  
• Quicktime
  
• Winmx
  
• Outlook Express
  
• Winzip
  
• TweakUI
  
• Lots more but I'll stop here

Does SkinnerToo work for Modern skins, Vazza?

u really couldnt live without creating cards

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Adobe Photoshop 6

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Adobe Photoshop 6

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Quick question is that free, couse I see alot of peps using it ??

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ok, zink's gonna enter into the fight.. bwajaja

one good freeware image viewer program that I didn't see here is: irfanview
I think is a way better than ACDSee ...
(at least the ACDSee versions I tried.. I don't know if that have changed)
and ACDSee is shareware, isn't it?

and well of course I need some codecs to see my videos to breathe so I can live in armony with the universe..
(quicktime alternative a way better than the other one)
oh, and the windows media payer classic is good.. althought I still prefer BSplayer

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Does SkinnerToo work for Modern skins, Vazza?

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u really couldnt live without creating cards

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[*]Adobe Photoshop 6
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yes the 6 one is free and didn't cost a dime isn't it

Well, Winamp 5 is very good. It has the best of 3 and the best of 2. Although Justin Frankel left AOL/Nullsoft at the end...

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Well, Winamp 5 is very good. It has the best of 3 and the best of 2. Although Justin Frankel left AOL/Nullsoft at the end...

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition
yes the 6 one is free and didn't cost a dime isn't it

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition
* link removed *

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He means that as soon as you post that the link will be removed.

More software:

WinRAR AND WinZip
Remote Assistance (my computer is possessed!)

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Originally posted by KeyStorm
What IRC client?
I don't like shareware... so mIRC won't be that...
IRCap is very good, but it's based on mIRC and mIRC expires... .

Well, what are your ideas?

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Originally posted by Beno
All you need is an XBOX and Halo...and soon Halo 2...*Drooling*

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the post is/was the one just after mine, and i idn't want to post another post about it, increasing the spam

All you need is an XBOX and Halo...and soon Halo 2...*Drooling*

Chatprogs: MSN Messenger + messenger plus, mIRC

Graphic: Photopaint, Paint, Flash

Texteditor: Word, NoteTab

Browser: Avant Browser

E-mail: TheBat!

Anti virus: Norton + AVG

Firewall: Kerio Personal Firewall + windows "tilde"

Anti Adware, Anti trojans: Adaware, theCleaner

Download prog P2P: Kazaa Lite resurrection

Music/vid-Player: Winamp

Archive/extractingprog: WinZip, WinRar

CD-burner: NERO Burning Rom

Optimization: TuneUp, Reg Supreme, AceUtilities, NTREGOPT, ---> www.aumha.org

Hobbie: SETI Client

Software- besides Instant Messanger & Messengar Plus! that I cant live without:


1.  Rainlander
2.  Beatnik Clock

3. Style XP

4.Windowblinds

5.Quicknotes

6. Serandom Screensaver sorter

7.  McAfee Antivirus/Firewall