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Apps, suggestions?
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:31 pm
by shiznit
Alright so I did a complete format and all the updates and drivers. Now I'm wondering what apps I should install.
Browser - Firefox with adblock
Music - Winamp 5
Video - WMP/Media Player Classic
Word Processing - Word 2003
Graphics - Infranview/Photoshop
Chat - mIRC
IM - MSN with apatch
Zip - 7-Zip
Bittorrent - BitComet
FTP - FileZilla
Spyware - Ad-Aware SE Personal/Spybot
Are there any better choices am I missing anything? Also which codec packs should I get, I've always used 3ivx but I get some expiry crap after 30 days from one of the audio codecs, also Real Player/Quicktime Alternative. Any more suggestions before I ruin my computer?
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:33 pm
by hate
breathe
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:22 pm
by dmmh
install what u need, done
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:24 pm
by axbaby
i see you have bittorrent so you probably need
winrar
vlc
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:25 pm
by mik0rs
AVG Antivirus?
K-Lite coded pack for WMP (that I knew nothing of until yesterday :-/ ) ?
Maybe Textpad? Dunno if you'd need that for anything...
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:35 pm
by booker
q3
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:43 pm
by Dave
shutdown.exe
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:44 pm
by Canis
whatever apps you think you'll need for whatever you use your computer for. How should we know this?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:57 am
by shiznit
jee wiz
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:02 am
by bitWISE
riddla wrote:Dave wrote:shutdown.exe
dunno if you were joking, but this is a great addition if you want to reboot with a batch file/system task on a regular interval. I use it on servers and my home machine to reboot once every 14 days.
You can also use it to remotely reboot any machine on your network.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:03 am
by dmmh
AutoCAD
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:32 am
by Cooldown
Get
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. Don't forget Antivirus software, there are tons of choices, I personally use AVG Free Edition. Also you may need a Text Editor, like TextPad.
- All-Seeing Eye
- CCleaner
- Microsoft BootVis
- Nero
- TweakUI
- Driver Cleaner Pro
- 7-Zip
- Diskeeper
- Daemon Tools
- DAMN nfo reader
- Adobe Reader
- EndItAll 2
- Gaim
Firefox Extensions
- Tabbrowser Preferences
- undoclosetab
- adblock FilterSet.G updater
- Tab X
- Gmail notifier
- ForecastFox
- DownloadStatusBar
- ShowFailedURL
- ChromEdit
- Allow Right-Click
- All-in-one Gestures
You might want to check out
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html , pretty good guide in tweaking WinXp for performance.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:51 am
by Dante
dBpowerAMP - cd ripping
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:47 pm
by shiznit
Cooldown wrote:Get
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. Don't forget Antivirus software, there are tons of choices, I personally use AVG Free Edition. Also you may need a Text Editor, like TextPad.
- All-Seeing Eye
- CCleaner
- Microsoft BootVis
- Nero
- TweakUI
- Driver Cleaner Pro
- 7-Zip
- Diskeeper
- Daemon Tools
- DAMN nfo reader
- Adobe Reader
- EndItAll 2
- Gaim
Firefox Extensions
- Tabbrowser Preferences
- undoclosetab
- adblock FilterSet.G updater
- Tab X
- Gmail notifier
- ForecastFox
- DownloadStatusBar
- ShowFailedURL
- ChromEdit
- Allow Right-Click
- All-in-one Gestures
You might want to check out
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html , pretty good guide in tweaking WinXp for performance.
Thanks
Re: Apps, suggestions?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:58 pm
by [FTF]Pyro
deepburner
DvD-shrink
DVD-Decrypter
Limewire
Azureues
go to doom9.org and get yourself some decent codec packs.
DIVx6
CoolEdit Pro
Adobe Photoshop/reader
MSN 7.5
Virtual CD 7
Tight VNC if you are on a network
WinAVI
IsoBuster
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:24 pm
by Giraffe }{unter
You may want to drop adaware it's not verry good anymore
Sad to say too it kicked ass in the past.
Spybot is still great as well as MS antispyware.
Try
GAIM as your slim IM ONLY instant messenger client.
Try
XM Play instead of winamp for a slim feature packed MP3 player
Real Player Alternative
QuickTime Alternative
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:27 pm
by Zyte
vIRC.
ventrilo
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:00 pm
by eepberries
Use Winamp instead of WMA for playing video files.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:56 pm
by shiznit
eepberries wrote:Use Winamp instead of WMA for playing video files.
Why winamp? I think it sucks for video, the controls are bad.
I tried Defiler pack but couldn't play my video files and got some dll error.
So I went with 3vix again.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 7:21 pm
by Foo
Yeah I don't rate Winamp for video playback. It's OK but I think winamp should be dedicated to audio, let someone else spend time on the video.
VLC is 'okay'. Media player classic is great.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:11 pm
by [FTF]Pyro
Foo wrote:Yeah I don't rate Winamp for video playback. It's OK
The one area where Winamp Excels is Internet based music videos off of their servers. Pretty much anything you want at any time, kinda like a good version of a video jukebox.
Re: Apps, suggestions?
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:17 pm
by Freakaloin
shiznit wrote:Alright so I did a complete format and all the updates and drivers. Now I'm wondering what apps I should install.
Browser - Firefox with adblock
Music - Winamp 5
Video - WMP/Media Player Classic
Word Processing - Word 2003
Graphics - Infranview/Photoshop
Chat - mIRC
IM - MSN with apatch
Zip - 7-Zip
Bittorrent - BitComet
FTP - FileZilla
Spyware - Ad-Aware SE Personal/Spybot
Are there any better choices am I missing anything?
LOL...JESIS WHAT A NO0B...