Programs you cant live without Thread

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Wow that actually would solve some of the problems i have at work with the training lan .
Is there any special setup you need? like a domain, or does it work on a lan?

 

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Nope it simply requires the computers to be networked. Nothing special. You simply have to install the program on all the machines you wish to control, then specify which is the computer that you wish to control from and the orientation of the computers that are around it (i.e which side they are on). Then once it is all configured you simply move the mouse to the left or the right side of the screen to control the computer that is on that side. For example, if you were on the far left and you wanted to control the computer that is two to your right then you would simply scroll to the right until you were at the one you wanted. It's brilliant.

 

DriverGenius

 

First thing i usually do is: Make it look like the old windows.

Install graphics drivers (usually download all drivers and up-to-date software and whack on to a dvd before a reformat)

Install latest direct-X runtimes: website

Then i put on the anti-virus/firewall currently using Trend micro PC-Cillan, but might go with Avast or AVG next time.

other securty software:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/ - Spywareblaster, once installed and protection enabled, usually just have to periodically update and enable new protection for unprotected items.

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/spybotsd/index.html - spybot Search and destroy, Has a large library of bad websites that it can block, you can select if you want it to warn you about it or block the pages silently. Also checks for spyware and can remove them.

http://www.ccleaner.com/ - Crap Cleaner, a tool that wipes temporary files and all sorts of other stuff from your computer, careful how you set it up.

http://www.macecraft.com/ - RegSupreme, a registry cleaning tool

http://www.grisoft.com/doc/download-free-anti-rootkit/us/crp/5 - an anti-rootkit tool

http://www.lavasoft.de/ - Lavasoft Adaware, another checker for adware.

other applications:

ACDSee image viewer
Paint Shop Pro
http://www.codecguide.com/ - K-Lite Codec pack
DVD Shrink
www.doom9.net - pretty useful site, good for codecs and where i usually grab Gordian knot.
Nero

I used to use DB Poweramp's release 9 to rip my cd's but lately i was invited to oink.cd and there is a link to a guide there somewhere for ripping CD's accurately which recommends Exact Audio Copy: Guide

Browsers: Firefox and Seamonkey

MSN Messenger + messpatch
Teamspeak
World of Warcraft

 

flashfxp - this program is the corner stone for everything i download....must of done about 4Tb alone from one site (if my ISP is reading i easily get Mb and Tb mixed up please dont cut me off )

grim

 

let me see


Opera
Faststone Image viewer
The Gimp
CDburnerXP
Audiograbber
mediaplayerclassic
Copernic Agent(basic)
OpenOffice

Pokerstars poker

 

textaloud

 

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

Or the windows version

http://www.ubcd4win.com/

 

Free

Ubuntu / Mint
Wubi

Shark007 Codecs
VLC
Windows Media Player Plugin
Adobe Flash Player

WinScp
WinWget
BitComet
FlashGet
FileZilla FTP
Wireshark
Fiddler
Http Ping

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
Avast! Free Antivirues
Microsoft Security Essentials
ComboFix
Ad-Aware

Chrome
Firefox
Firebug
FasterFox

Windows Live Essentials
Yahoo Messenger
TeamViewer
Skype

PEBrowse
IDAPro Free
WinDbg

Notepad Replacer
Notepad2

7-Zip
IZArc
FreeArc

SqlServer Express / Compact
SQLite
Visual Studio Express 2010
IIS Express 7.5
AppFabric
STS / Eclipse
Java SDK
.NET Framework
Reflector
Depends
FxCop
Microsoft Windows SDK
ReferenceSource NET 4
Microsoft Windows Performance Toolkit
XamlPad
Windows Symbols or this.
HEdit
Visual Studio 2010 Help Downloader
Tomcat / Geronmio

Tortoise SVN
Slik Subversion
AnkSvn
VisualSVN
Git GUI

CCleaner
Wise PC Engineer
WinDirStat
DriverMax
Soluto
SysInternals Suite
ExactFile
Dropbox
LastPass
Rainlendar2
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
Microsoft Application Verifier
CCProxy
Paint .NET
EasyThumbnails
Virtual CloneDrive
Direct X Runtime
Microsoft Mathematics
Recuva
Speccy
RW-Everything
WinMerge
EasyBCD
VirtualBox
CPU-Z
Foxit Reader / Adobe Reader
doPDF
Apache
BIND

Commercial

Resharper
Spices 5
SimpleDNS Plus
Paragon Partition Manager

 

Nice list,

My new cannot live without it program is 1Password by agile development. Simple the best password manager I have come across, has availability across Mac, PC, iOS and uses dropbox for the syncing. Unobtrusive but powerful browser integration is also included - really am a fan of this product.

 

Thanks, just getting into lastpass, might look into it.

 

I think my choice would go to Photoshop, I was addicted to it since High School. Another program I can't live without is my Winamp...there has to be music while I work

 

Whats a Floppy?

 

A floppy usually results in a failure