Must Have Apps

[SidewinderX]

I'm interested in seeing what you guys think are must have Utilities for any Windows person (scre you linux and mac people, you don't need our utilities! you run perfectly fine as is!)


Please include url as well!


/me runs to gentoo machine...

 

[psyno]

Well here are some of my crucial apps, not just utilities, some aren't freeware...

WinRAR www.rarlabs.com
PuTTY www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Opera www.opera.com
Alcohol 120% www.alcohol-software.com/
DivX codec (not sure of url atm)
Spybot S&D AND Ad-aware security.kolla.de/ and www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
Sun Java java.sun.com/
SiSoftware Sandra www.sisoftware.net/
mIRC www.mirc.com/

 

[LoneDeranger]

This isn't a must-have app by any stretch of imagination, but I found it kinda cool:

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/



I was really surprised to see my "anime" folder taking up 70% of the space.

 

[Shuzer]

www.zonealarm.com ZoneAlarm
www.avast.com Avast! anti-virus
www.lavasoftusa.com AdAware, to accompany the afforementioned SpyBot S&D
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox Firefox, which is better than Opera lol

 

[RandomPING]

Porn, lots of it. I'd add my own but everyone pretty much covered all the bases.

 

[predatowned]

I agree with RandomPING

 

[Asus]

For those of you who don't know, Mozilla Firebird changed to Mozilla Firefox.

Motherboard Monitor 5
For gaming:
HLSW
Capture-Edit-Encode A/V:
TMPGEnc
Virtualdub
Avisynth

 

[RABIES]

OK - :thumbs:
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Free

Avant Browser:
http://www.avantbrowser.com/

Start Bar Fader:
http://www.customize.org/details/14909

Rage3D Tweak (ATI Users):
http://www.rage3d.com/?node=r3dtweak&94779

IrfanView:
http://www.irfanview.com/

OpenAL SDK(Sound Blaster users only, recommended for 5.1 and higher):
http://developer.creative.com/landing.asp?cat=1&sbcat=31&top=38

EAX 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 SDK(Sound Blaster users only, recommended for 5.1 and higher):
http://developer.creative.com/landing.asp?cat=1&sbcat=31

(Note: the SDK is Software Development Kit, however I notice a quality increase after installing them)
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Adware

Download Accelerator Plus:
http://www.speedbit.com/DAP7/Default.asp?

WinAce:
http://www.winace.com/

StuffIt Expander:
http://www.stuffit.com/win/expander/index.html
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Also

Major Geeks(Contains truckloads of tools):
http://www.majorgeeks.com/

 

[Jammydodger]

ISOBuster - http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/
Nero - http://www.nero.com/en/index.html
Privacy Eraser pro - http://www.privacyeraser.com/
The All-Seeing Eye - http://www.udpsoft.com/eye2/index.html
Emule - http://www.emule-project.net/
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 - http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.html

Thats just some of the stuff I use.

 

[SidewinderX]

Lone: That tool is soemthing that I needed, exactly!

thx mate!

 

[LoneDeranger]

Lone: That tool is soemthing that I needed, exactly!

thx mate!

Really? No problem

 

[Brian Damage]

Amithlon, Getright and the Graphics Card Overclocker Proggy of your choice.

 

[]SK[]

mIRC A must!

I have to go with psyno though, winrar is normally the first thing I install after a fresh install of Win2k.

 

[Jmechy]

aim - www.aim.com
winamp - http://winamp.com/

 

[T.N.T. Toulouse]

Virtual CD: www.virtualcd-online.com/
FileMon: www.sysinternals.com

 

[]SK[]

Daemon Tools > VCD

 

[NJD2003]

Trillian - www.ceruleanstudios.com
Download Accelerator Plus - www.speedbit.com
WinAce - www.winace.com
CDex - cdexos.sourceforge.net
ACDsee - www.acdsystems.com
Divx Player/Codec - www.divx.com