Q: Already installed Firefox, WinZip, WinRar, azereus, TweakUI, MS Office and Adobe CS . What do you all think the first things to be loaded on your PC?
Re:Opera, musikCube, WinRAR.
Re:firefox, gaim, symantec av ce, microsoft antispyware, vlc, gimp, gguyle earth, motherboard monitor, office, filezilla, picasa, textpad, and proper drivers/updates
Re:winamp, gaim, skype, and cygwin
Re:I'd install all of the updates and service packs, then I'd install True Image to snapshot the base install and archive it to dvd, for the next time I want to re-install.
Re:anyone know which codecs Win MCE already has?
Re:Originally posted by: guy
frodolives, is that spyware free? most of the coded packs i've seen are so full of $%# that they aren't worth the trouble.
No. It uses ffdshow for most of the heavy lifting, but some other components for the things that ffdshow doesn't support. I end up using the various components in CCCP anyway by the time I'm installing support for the videos I want to watch.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
All you need is what Redmond has bestowed upon you.
oh almighty Redmond! 
Re:All you need is what Redmond has bestowed upon you.
Re:hmmm… fineprint looks interesting, but the only feature that really appeals to me is the duplex printing… and my MP760 does it just fine on its own! (btw, anyone looking for a multifunction… canon MP series is the way to go… I've never been happier with a printer!)
Re:I forgot this one: fineprint www.fineprint.com
Makes printing better- for example print 2-4 pages on 1 piece of paper, can use front and back of paper, preview and delete unwanted pages. It's uncrippled shareware (except shareware version prints a small "printed with fineprint" text on the bottom of your pages, which is really not a problem)
Re:frodolives, is that spyware free? most of the coded packs i've seen are so full of $%# that they aren't worth the trouble.
Re:Community Codec Pack with zoomplayer and media player classic, etc. (http://www.kickassanime.org/wiki/index.php?title=Compack)
Re:Rainlender is sweet. I just recently discovered it, myself. Now it sits semi-transparent on my desktop at all times.
Re:oooh… rainlender looks pretty cool
Re:irfanview (picture view, scanner, basic editor)
cdex (mp3 converter)
dvdshrink (copy dvd)
nero (cd/dvd burn)
audacity (sound recorder/editor)
winamp with enhancer plugin
dbPoweramp (convert any music format to anything else)
here's a couple nifty tools I've just started using:
wallpaper master (auto change wallpaper on reboot, also makes changing it manually more easy)
ditto (useful for copy/cut/paste when moving files to different folders, you can copy all you want, then select the item(s) from a list and paste them elsewhere)
Re:Here's the main apps I'm running:
MS Office
Rainlender
CutePDF Writer
GIMP for Windows
Mozilla Thunderbird
Avant Browser
Mozilla Firefox
Yahoo IM
AnitVir Personal
Spybot S&D
Lavasoft Adaware
BitComet
eMule
DVD Decrypter
DVD Shrink
Nero 6
CDex
Foobar2000
iTunes/Quicktime
ZipGenius
I didn't list my games, and almost all of that is freeware.
Re:Things i like to have installed after a format (all are freeware):
Things i have installed before i connect to the net:
Service Pack 2 (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx) and all security updates
Antivirus: AntiVir (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download955.html)
FireWall: Kerio (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download738.html)
Spyware Prevention: SpywareBlaster (http://majorgeeks.com/download2859.html)
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