RogueHart Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 i got a new laptop recently (well its about a year old but its at least 2x more powerful than my old laptop in every way. 3x in hd after os. well i have spent about 10 hours so far downloading and installing and transferring essential programs to my new rig and i was wondering what everyone considers essential programs. my list winrar msn open office photoshop firefox winamp xfire audacity blitz3d vixy.net the kmplayer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deveant Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 No offence, but that took you 10h's? seems like a couple to me. essentials that i have not repeating urs: Notepad ++ Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP) Kasperky daemon tools (maybe not so for a laptop though) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 These are my essentials for a Windows system. Notepad++ VLC AVG COMODO Firewall Pro Opera Thunderbird EDIT: Had ZoneAlarm, moved to COMODO when zonealarm decided to block HTTP traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 VLC 7Zip Skype Pidgin FireFox KeyPass CCLeaner Utorrnet VNC Viewer Microsoft Office Most of my other apps are on a separate partition of my hhd and they are all executables that do not need installing... SAM cpuZ Hex-Ed Recuva Winscp WPE Pro WinDump TSearch OperaTor ExifRead SniffPass CurrPorts WireShark Notepad++ Cain & Able ScatterChat IECacheView JPEG Quality ThumbsExtract UltraShredder WinFingerPrint WinInterrogate HFS File Server Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted October 16, 2008 Author Share Posted October 16, 2008 No offence, but that took you 10h's? seems like a couple to me. essentials that i have not repeating urs: Notepad ++ Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP) Kasperky daemon tools (maybe not so for a laptop though) those+ installing games and transferring files from old computer to new computer and then configuring vista. those are just the essential programs. not everything ive done to get my computer ready for use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazaruswws Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 TrueCrypt is one so far not included Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swathe Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 cgywin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 gotta add crimson editor to my list. in my opinion crimson editor>notepad++ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Vista, nuff said. Copying anything to vista seems to take forever. I spent well over 12 hours copying files to Vista where as when I got fed up with Vista, copying the same files after reinstalling XP took only a few hours. Something in Vistas network copy function is borked and I think they improved it in SP1, but I'm not running Vista on any main pc any longer, just in Vmware at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 Vista, nuff said. Copying anything to vista seems to take forever. I spent well over 12 hours copying files to Vista where as when I got fed up with Vista, copying the same files after reinstalling XP took only a few hours. Something in Vistas network copy function is borked and I think they improved it in SP1, but I'm not running Vista on any main pc any longer, just in Vmware at the moment. agreed. which is why i setup an ftp server on my old laptop lol. 500kbs usually more. which is much faster than my download speed. and since my old hd is only a 40 gig(with about 15-20 being personal files) and it only taking about an hour for 3 gigs its not the transfer speed thats got me lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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