Any recommendations for those essential apps on your PC that you find useful or couldn't live without?

At the moment I'm restricted to browsing the net from my works laptop, so have been unable to access all these useful apps

But I'll have my new PC next week so stuff all that!

 

WS_FTPpro
PSP
Winzip
ZoneAlarm
Sandra2002

 

CD-Ex
Paintshop Pro
Sygate Personal Firewall
CDRWin
ISO Buster
Nero Burning Rom
TmpMpg
Virtual Dub
Winamp
Sophos
Sound Forge
FastFcuker (Mod Tracker)

 

Free stuff?

Zone alarm
Grisoft's anti virus software(or norton/mcafee but you have to pay)
Ad-aware
Instant messenger/(MS or AOL)
Kazaa Lite
Winzip
Nero
Quicktime
Probably more, but I forget

 

Interesting stuff chaps - I recognise some of these apps such as WinZip, WinAmp, ZoneAlarm etc - but some are new to me

 

Service Packs + Hotfixes
Virus Scanner
Outlook Express
Internet Explorer
GetRight Download Manager
WinZip
PhotoShop
Winamp
Registry Crawler
Resource Hacker
Lotus Notes
Visual Studio .NET
UltraEdit32
Citrix ICA Client
Local Copy of Usrmgr, Srvmgr, Winsadmin, dnsadmin
Heat (call logging software)
EPO Admin
SQL Enterprise Admin
SMS 1.2 Admin
SMS 2.0 MMC
Loads of custom scripts...

(Kazaa, AudioGalaxy etc and Adware are on at home)

Sad thing is home pc and work pc are about same setup...

David


[Edited by David_Wallis - 6/14/2002 12:00:19 PM]

 

Forgot . . . .

Direct Connect
Kazaa Lite
Audio Galaxy
WinRar

[Edited by DJ Dunk - 6/14/2002 12:01:14 PM]

 

Winzip is almost allways one of the 1st things to go on any PC of mine.

Nero
CuteFTP Pro
PSP 7
Jasc Image Robot
Canon Digi Cam S/W
MP3 Player Download S/W
Renamer (fab for mass renaming of files)
VNC

to name a few

 

As above and,

WIN2KPRO SP2
MIRC - IRC chat client
ICQ - p2p chat client
AudioGalaxy - mp3 app
FlashFXP - FTP
BPFTP Server - FTP Server
DNS2GO - dynamic to static IP app
Dreamweaver4 - Web design
Roxio/PacketCD - CDR/W tools
CDRWin/CloneCD4/Fireburner - CDR/W tools
Winimage - ISO app
Winrar/Winace/Winzip
QuickSFV checker - CRC file checker
Autoroute 2002
Win2k Refresh Rate Fix - customise refresh rate for games in win2k
IOmega zip tools
TweakUI - Win customisation
MSConfig for Win2k - Win startup tools
ACDSee 4 Suite - Picture and video manager
PSP 7/Pshop 7
MSOffice XP
NA Virus Scan
Mad Onion PCMark/3DMark - Benchmarking
Webshots - wallpaper manager
Citrix ICA

Cmcrae2 rally and Grand prix legends totally essential

 

Age of Empires II Conquerors edition and something to look at **** with.

I have simple tastes

 

****

you lot remind me i forgot to send Norton firewall n virus across
doh

routers getting send back

 

wordperfect 5.1
lotus 123
dbase 3.5

 

ACDSee you know what for u dirty little boys (and girls)

 

Counter Strike

those other things look way to techny

 

You might benefit from one of those spellchecking apps though Steve

 

CS
GameSpy
Geekplay
ZoneAlarm
Kazaa
Nero
IE
WMP
Quicktime for all those dodgy vids you get sent via email.
Excel - purely for checking the work rota to make sure I aint supposed to be in.
Probably a load of other stuff I cant remember until I need to use em.

No Winzip as using XP.

 

is spellchecking one word or two?

 

WINXP Pro
Divx Player
Download Accelerator
WinRAR
CDR Win
News Rover
Free Agent
Disc Juggler
Smart Par
ISOBuster
TMPGEnc
AdAware
Edonkey2000
GPL Race Engineer

 

Photoshop.....and Nero.

 

Kazaa, then the other apps seem to fall magically into your lap.

 

yep i may well do Gza

but i can still

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with the best of them in CM2

 

Win XP Pro (patched up to date)
Winamp (refuse to do anything unless i have some nice music playing)
Winzip (I know XP will do it, but I still like WinZip)
WinRar (Another cool compression thinghy)
X-Chat (IRC, i prefer it to mIRC)
MSN Messenger (Everyones got it, easy to use etc)
Sygate Personal Firewall (Can never be too careful)
Norton Antivirus 2002 (Ditto, had some bad experiences)
Nero Burning ROM (great cd burning software)
Kazaa Lite (Latest version is good, Speed Up is a nice feature)
WinDVD (dunno why, but i prefer it to PowerDVD)
SiSoft Sandra (benchmarking software)
Motherboard Monitor (for keeping an eye on system temps)

Then for webdesign work I tend to use..

Notepad (just so I can say I make my sites in Notepad )
Evrsoft First Page 2000 (slightly nicer text editor)
Macromedia Fireworks (love it, best image software i've ever used)
Photoshop (dont really like it, prefer fireworks, but its good for some things)
Macromedia Dreamweaver (just to check stuff, throw together a quick design)

and various versions of Mozilla, Internet Explore and Nutscrape to test sites in.

Oh, and most importantly of all, loadsa games

 

WinXP Pro
WinAmp (can't be doing without music for long)
Eudora (avoiding Outlook and even worse, OE)
PSP
Trillian (MSN IM, Yahoo, ICQ all in one and even works thro the company firewall )
Forte Agent
Visual C++
couple of my own progs, one to record music - the other to edit mp3s
McAfee VS but then I might be a biased on that one

 

Just in the middle of finding some of these wee beasties

Any more suggestions anyone?

 

hello gza, good question this, so my essentials are:

dameware
vmware
erd admin pak
all password crackers: zip, office suite, lc3 etc
exchange tools: crack pst, ost2pst, scanpst
compression utils: winrar, winace
ftp stuff: smartftp, flashfxp
imaging stuff: ghost explorer & pqdi
partition magic

shunty

 

ps - I am a GEEK

shunty

 

Surprisingly normal stuff for me I think ...

XP Pro
Office XP
(+200 hotfixes for above )
Kazaalite
Checkpoint VPN client
WS_FTP
Norton AV2002
AOL IM
MS Messenger
PC Anywhere 10.0
Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Power DVD
MusicMatch Jukebox
(more obscure)
Sharescope
Pronto-Edit
Bin-ISO converter
Putty
WinSCP2.0

 

Windows/Office XP
Trillian,
CompuPic,
WinAmp,
UnrealTournament,
Photoshop 7,
DrTag (MP3 tagger)
Legacy 3.0 (genealogy)
PowerDVD,
Vuescan (35mm negative scanning)
Audiograbber,
IsoBuster.

Oh, and of course - WebReaper.