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Geek Culture / [Feedback Please] Getting a PC Up And Ready

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That Guy John
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Posted: 18th Jan 2011 00:34
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When getting a fresh PC up and ready, what do you think are the standard programs / add-ons do you install to get you up and ready.
Not counting Drivers and such.

Examples:

Adobe Reader
Flash Player
Java
DirectX

Anti-Virus (Please list what you use)

Bench-Marking Software (Please list what you use)

Anything else you can think of?
It can be just about anything, just take a gander at your installed programs.

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heyufool1
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Posted: 18th Jan 2011 04:10 Edited at: 18th Jan 2011 04:11
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When I built my computer I installed these in the first day of having the computer:
Avast!
Firefox
Spybot
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.)
iTunes
VC++
Winrar or 7zip
VLC Media Player
CPUID
Steam
Crysis (for "benchmarking" really)
BFBC2
Generally I don't install things like adobe read, flash player, java, etc. until I need it.

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cmando
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Posted: 18th Jan 2011 04:14
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Avast is a must. The best I have found around.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 18th Jan 2011 05:12
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I don't bother with benchmarking software. Nor do I bother with Adobe reader or flash, I'll simply install those when I come to a site that requires it. As I do Java development, the SDK gets installed along with the JRE and Netbeans/Eclipse.

On newer systems, I've been installing Avira anti-virus and Comodo firewall; though I'm having my doubts about Comodo.

Chrome, FF (for dev purposes), Opera (backup to chrome)
iTunes
Codec packages
VLC
Notepad++
Winrar
Thunderbird
Photoshop
Xampp
Fences
FileZilla

Those tend to be the first things I install. Other things that usually follow but I wait to install until I actually need them are:

Office
VS
DVD Burning software
Audacity
EnCase
Auslogics disk defrag & duplicate file finder
Daemon tools (for mounting images)

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That Guy John
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Posted: 18th Jan 2011 05:43
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Phaelax, can you list what codecs and where you get them?
Xampp... meh Wamp is much simpler for me, but I will jot that down as well.

Anyone come up with anything different than whats already listed?
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SH4773R
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Posted: 18th Jan 2011 06:09
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Don't forget ccleaner I can imagine living without that program, its free
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That Guy John
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Posted: 18th Jan 2011 06:53
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Yeah I make use of just about all the utilities at piriform.com
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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 18th Jan 2011 16:48
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camstudio
Firefox/chrome/IE/opera
Spybot search and destroy
Malwarebyte's anti-malware
avast!
Comodo firewall
Wamp (i've found foobar2000 to be pretty good, also. way more lightweight.)
Gimp (or photoshop)
audacity (and lime_enc.dll for mp3 encoding)
Microsoft Office or OpenOffice
Winrar or 7zip
Steam
VC++ IDE
eclipse IDE
indigo IDE
registry mechanic
google earth
cheat engine (I love memory editing as a way to debug programs )
skype
HP drivers (*shudder*, only because I know I'll have to do it sooner or later)
Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft


thaaat's about it!

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Phaelax
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Posted: 18th Jan 2011 21:23 Edited at: 18th Jan 2011 21:25
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Quote: "Phaelax, can you list what codecs and where you get them?"

k-lite
RadLight APE DirectShow filter (although it might be included in the mega k-lite pack now)


Quote: "cheat engine (I love memory editing as a way to debug programs )"

It used to work with those dumb facebook games too

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