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Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Pyroteq on 07-25-2005 at 07:11 AM

Okay, so my dad has a new PC And hed like me to install some various shit for him.
On my PC i have alot of crap that i couldnt be stuffed going through, and some would be useless to him.

So id like to know, What are a few programs you guys think are essential for a new PC? (Its mostly just an officey sorta tool pc, but you can suggest cool programs he may not need anyway)

Dont suggest..
Ad Aware
Firefox
Hijack This
Norton products
Spybot S&D
WinRAR or WinZIP
DVD Shrink
Tweak XP Pro
Itunes
Microsoft Office
(I have them allready)

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by ddunk on 07-25-2005 at 07:17 AM

Winamp? Unless you want to use WMP.

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by guanako on 07-25-2005 at 07:20 AM

Microsoft antispyware
MSN Messsenger & PLus!(Y)

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Dempsey on 07-25-2005 at 07:42 AM

mIRC, Shareaza,Google Desktop Search

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Eljay on 07-25-2005 at 07:43 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Scone
Dont suggest..
Ad Aware
Firefox
Hijack This
Norton products
Spybot S&D
WinRAR or WinZIP
DVD Shrink
Tweak XP Pro
Itunes
Microsoft Office
(I have them allready)

:P

umm msn with msgplus? 100% essential
RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by -dt- on 07-25-2005 at 07:45 AM

clcl http://www.nakka.com/soft/clcl/index_eng.html (muli clipboard thing)

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by ShawnZ on 07-25-2005 at 07:57 AM

VLC/VideoLAN Client

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by rav0 on 07-25-2005 at 08:32 AM


Also get the latest drivers for video/audio cards, just after fresh install is a good time, because there are no old ones there. Compress hard disk if it's NTFS, and if it isn't, make it NTFS (I just remembered that I haven't done that, I will now). Set screen resolution higher, and enable ClearType.
RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by ShawnZ on 07-25-2005 at 08:41 AM

IE has an ftp client, and Shareaza has a bt client 8-)

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Pyroteq on 07-25-2005 at 10:12 AM

He wont be downloading shit so i dont need bit torrent, im not allowed games on it :p i have my own pc for that. and he wont be using MSN, but if he does then plus will be making an appearance :p

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by multimillion2k on 07-25-2005 at 10:24 AM

Acrobat Reader is a must for any father, and perhaps Direct X could be useful as well.
I also use GoBack - if you haven't used it, I suggest you try it :)

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Rubber Stamp on 07-25-2005 at 10:33 AM

thats about it for a completely office use PC...

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Pyroteq on 07-25-2005 at 11:14 AM

whats GoBack?

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by hmaster on 07-25-2005 at 03:45 PM

Limewire Pro

RE: RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by guanako on 07-25-2005 at 04:55 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Scone
whats GoBack?
Symantec’s Norton GoBack™ 4.0 allows you to easily undo PC problems. Restore your PC to a healthy state by going back minutes, hours, or even days (depending on available disk space). Also use Norton GoBack to restore files that have been deleted or modified, and to try new software safely.link
RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Pyroteq on 07-26-2005 at 05:54 AM

Ohh i have that, i have the complete norton suite except i just bypassed everything else and intsalled internet security and anti virus.

Are there any other programs that would be recomended, for any type of pc (not just office) (Dont suggest p2p or bit torrent, im looking for things i might not know about)

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by hmaster on 07-26-2005 at 09:28 AM

Photoshop/Fireworks?

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by multimillion2k on 07-26-2005 at 09:54 AM

Quicktime.

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Anubis on 07-26-2005 at 10:16 AM

Codecs, like DivX, XviD always come in useful when you need to view stuff.
Also, for that matter, you could just install FFD Show, which renders videos and acts like a sort of universal codec for many MPEG-4 files, an ever more popular format for various video files and soon becoming a must have for every computer.
Even though its a PC that's mainly office based, its always a good idea to have your computer able to open a wide range of popular files...you never know what events may crop up when you want to view a file quick (e-mail from friends being the highest reason for this).

FFD Show

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by tomfletcherman on 07-26-2005 at 10:52 AM

Winrar - might be useful
Realplayer - the amount of crap that uses it
WinDVD - perhaps?
Java - sun's java
Flash - if it isn't already installed
Alcohol

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Rubber Stamp on 07-26-2005 at 11:20 AM

dont think that all these are required...its an office use computer.

RE: Essential Programs For A Fresh Windows Install by Pyroteq on 07-27-2005 at 06:18 AM

Its mainly an office use, secondly a media pc.

So now what i need is somthing to do with dvds..
Alcohol 120% was a good suggetsion i completly forgot about that, man that comes in usefull sometimes.

So, whats the best dvd playing program? It came with PowerDVD but ofcourse that is only the trial and wont play things in surround.