What Software/programs Do You Use?

What Software/programs Do You Use? Just the essentials + few extras

#1 [HyuNi]

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Posted 14 July 2008 - 08:19 AM

I ordered a refurbed XPS 420 desktop with an ATI 8800 GT 512MB video card.
It will be my first decent gaming computer. I tried making my own before and it was a sad excuse for even a standard computer. haha

I'm a true minimalist.
I don't want to clutter my old system with useless junk.

Here's a list of what basic programs, I plan to use:
Norton Antivirus
RocketDock
WinRar
Gom Video/Audio Player
Firefox/Opera (not sure which one is better, any suggestions?)
Office 2007

Two games I plan to buy:
COD4: Modern Warfare
CS: Source

What are some programs/software you have on your computer?

#2 Supremacy

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Posted 14 July 2008 - 05:53 PM

I use Norton too, and AVG

You sould get WinZip, can be helful

And i perfer Interent Explorer over Firefox =P

And games depends on what you like. Seeing as how you picked COD4 and CS, i assume you like shooter games. Try Combat Arms?

#3 rhaize

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Posted 14 July 2008 - 05:59 PM

Winrar is same as winzip, except better. Firefox is better than Opera. You should get some spyware scanners like search and destroy.

#4 **ThatGirlPhuong

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Posted 14 July 2008 - 06:18 PM

Essentials:
- Firefox
- Foobar2k
- Pidgin
- iTunes (Used only to compress music & update iPod)
- WinRAR
- CCleaner
- Microsoft Office 2003 (2007 is too much for me)

Not necessary but does come in handy occasionally
- Adobe Photoshop

I don't use the AntiVirus programs... I don't venture into unknown websites

#5 [HyuNi]

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Posted 15 July 2008 - 06:07 AM

Thanks guys,

I forgot about CCleaner and yup, I use WinRar to zip and extract files, so I don't think I need WinZip.
I4gotMyID: yeah I like shooter games. It's easy to pick up and very hard to master! I haven't played any FPS since my CS v1.5 days. (like 5 years ago!) but I've heard CS:Source is good and COD4 is amazing. My computer will be arriving in a couple days and I'm really excited to try them out!

Any other utils that anyone recommends? I don't go to unsafe websites either.
In regards to spyware scanners, how useful are they? I don't like the fact that they actively run in the background. I had spysweeper and everytime it ran a system scan my computer was running on full for the next 30 minutes. Wouldn't a regular scan from CCleaner be enough?

#6 **ThatGirlPhuong

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Posted 15 July 2008 - 07:57 AM

CCleaner would just help clean out files you don't really need anymore like your temporary files. I don't think it'd be effective for cleaning out virus infected files.

#7 Epic_Rice

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Posted 15 July 2008 - 08:41 AM

Googlemap.
VLC
Stuffix
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
FireFox
MSN
IMovie
PhotoBooth
Itune
Microsoft Word
Mac Dashboard

Fudge your freedom of expression, we are watching you.
Just waiting for you to break the rules.

#8 dabrain

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Posted 15 July 2008 - 09:57 AM

u dont need all that stuff

here's my list:
- totalcommander (file manager) together with winrar -> u can do practically everything with this combo
- avira antivir (forget norton ... too slow) + windows firewall: some of u may argue that this is not safe enough ... BS! i am a network administrator and i myself often have to visit "questionable" sites ... but i never had problems so far
- firefox (plus usefull extensions, eg IE tab, flashgot etc)
- windows media player classic / vlc ... gom player is equally good

concerning games
i'd suggest crysis. actually there is a bunch of shooters out there ... but most of them (despite bein ok) suck compared to cod4

... yeah ^^

#9 ShukakuOTS

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Posted 16 July 2008 - 06:09 AM

I use a lot. Off the top of my head:

Kaspersky Internet Security
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Imageready
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe Flash
Quark (not too often though)
CorelDRAW
Propellerheads Reason
CoolEdit Pro
Acronis TrueImage
Winrar
Firefox
Cinema 4D
Wacom Graphics Tablet
MSN Messenger
AIM Messenger
Microsoft Word

I might have missed some.

#10 mama_gir1

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Posted 16 July 2008 - 06:39 AM

The ones I use everyday:
.Gom player
.TT player
.Photoshop
.internet explorer
.MSN

...pieces that we are,

#11 DKYang

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Posted 16 July 2008 - 02:23 PM

- Avira Classic anti virus, the free one.
- Spybot S&D
- Adaware
- SpywareBlaster
- CCleaner
- Winamp
- JkDefrag/Defraggler
- Firefox
- Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint. 2007 or 2003. You could also just use notepad.
- 7-zip, like WinRar but I like it better.
- VLC Player
- Comodo Firewall
- Filehippo.com updater, if you want to stay up to date with the newest versions of programs.

These are my essentials and some of them are there just in case I need to use them. I don't use all of them everyday.

As for some of your questions. CCleaner just cleans out the useless stuff. Not all spyware programs have real time protection and you can always disable them. I just do full scans once a month or week, whatever I feel like doing.

I also recommend Firefox because it has so many useful addons that makes browsing much easier. It also has a IE tab addon, which is very useful for me when visiting Korean websites. There's a thread where people posted their addons on this forum. It can't be more than couple pages back.

click on me!

#12 thachhao

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Posted 16 July 2008 - 03:20 PM

You might want to use Firefox when browsing the web. I have the following addons:
- NoScript
- IE Tab
- CustomizeGoogle

#13 achu

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Posted 16 July 2008 - 06:32 PM

KMPlayer to beat all media players.

#14 D_K

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Posted 21 July 2008 - 12:12 PM

QUOTE ([HyuNi] @ Jul 14 2008, 12:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If you're a true minimalist, get rid of Norton. It is one of the most bloated softwares out there. Get nod32/comodo instead.

"But when it ends and while it ends, something comes, after so much rage, persistence, obstinacy, extravagance; something entirely unexpected and touching in its mildness and goodness. With the motif passed through many vicissitudes, which takes leave and so doing becomes itself entirely leave-taking, a parting wave and call, with this D G G occurs a slight change, it experiences a small melodic expansion. After an introductory C, it puts a C sharp before the D. . .and this added C Sharp is the most moving, consolatory, pathetically reconciling thing in the world. It is like having one's hair or cheek stroked, lovingly, understandingly, like a deep and silent farewell look. . . . " (Mann: 55).

#15 ninyaah

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 06:16 AM

AVG 8
CCleaner
Auslogics Disc Defrag
Firefox
iTunes
VLC
WinRar

twitter | livejournal

#16 sillymeboy

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 06:19 AM

Photoshop
Winamp classic
media player classic
utorrent
avg antivirus
itunes
firefox
aim
nero burning rom

Regards,
. . . . . . . Sillymeboy

#17 [HyuNi]

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 06:31 AM

Vista is so frustrating!
I feel like it's treating me like a 5 year old. It hides menus which now require extra clicks (oh I hate that confirm screen that pops up everytime I change a setting) and I feel like the response time is a lot slower!

Anyway, does anybody else use Gom Audio player?
I'm trying to make it default to use Gom Audio when I play Mp3's, but after I set it to that setting and click the button where it says, "always use this program when opening this type of file," it doesn't change the icon from WMA to GOM and also it doesn't open in Gom Audio! AH! I hate Vista!

QUOTE (dabrain @ Jul 15 2008, 12:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

u dont need all that stuff

here's my list:
concerning games
i'd suggest crysis. actually there is a bunch of shooters out there ... but most of them (despite bein ok) suck compared to cod4

Cool, I was thinking about getting Crysis, too. I was reading reviews and aparently, there's North Koreans in the game? haha I swear, if it not the russians or the germans, it's always the commie NKs.
That will be cool though! The review said they will be speaking in full out korean.

D K, I use Norton because I have the corporate edition I get from work for free. Otherwise, I would switch.

#18 proFRESHional.

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Posted 22 July 2008 - 04:20 PM

Winrar
SpyBlaster
Adware
Microsoft Office 2000
AVG
Mozilla Firefox
MS Paint
AIM
Winamp
Photoshop CS

#19 shinhbang

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Posted 25 July 2008 - 01:47 PM

I USE:

PHOTOSHOP CS3
AIM
MOZILLA FIREFOX
INTERNET EXPLORER
MSN
NORTON 360
NERO
GOLDWAVE
WINRAR
WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 11
GOM PLAYER

"That's for me to know and for you to dot dot dot." -Damon Salvatore

#20 vikkay

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Posted 26 July 2008 - 11:36 AM

I use;
Avast Antivirus
Limewire 4.16
Veoh Tv
Winamp
Aim 5.9 + Middleman
Adobe photoshop 7.0
Winrar
& Mozilla 4.42

Like they say, new isnt always better [:

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