After Having to reinstall Windows for the X time and losing half my bookmarks and programs I thought this might be a good place to share the important bits. I will try to keep this organize under the following Headings/Posts at the top of this thread: Ninite Check this out first!!!! (it is a multi program installer/One click installer) System tools OC and related Software: Internet: Browsers, chat ect. Media: playback and formating Software: Productivity software Misc The rest. Security & Game Fixes quick links to one place with all the answers for X game.
System: (Reserved) Advanced Tokens Manager Back up your windows activations. Process Explorer v15.22 Hiren's boot CD Ultimate Boot CD Memtest Rainmeter SSD Life C Cleaner Optimization & Cleaning Notepad++ Source code editor and Notepad CoreTemp CPU Temperture Monitor HWMonitor Hardware Monitoring Defraggler File & Disc Defragmentation Recuva File Recovery GPU-Z GPU Information Utility CPU-Z System Monitoring Spacesniffer See whats on your disk Whocrashed See what crashed Free Commander Like File explorer but better! TestDisk For your HDD needs, format ect. Regshot/ Screenshot of you registry
OC and Relates Software/tips: (reserved) nv GPU Pro Goodbyte's GPU OC Supper Tool. SuperPi Furmark Intel Burn Test Rivatuner Graphics Tweeking Tool OCCT Over Clock Checking Tool
Internet: (reserved) Firefox Chrome Opera Pidgin multi chat can install using Ninite. Skype Internet Chat and VOIP. Team Speak VOIP for gamers.
Media: (reserved) VLC Media Player Windows Media Player Classic Home Cinema kmplayer Media Player MakeMKV Handbrake Itunes Audio Player FlashPlayer Foobar2000 Audio Player Audacity Audio Editor and Recorder Spotify Music streaming service Audiograbber Old School CD ripper with plugin support Lame MP3 plugin for ripping CD's Media Monkey Play and Sync Music sumatrapdfSumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.
Software: (reserved) Open Office libreoffice Ninite one installer for all 7-zip File Archiver Winrar File Archiver Gimp Image Editor Utorrent Torrent program Filezilla Free FTP program and host. daemon-tools Optical Media Emulation DVD Decrypter DVD Ripper Imagburn DVD burner PhotoRec It recovers Photos Nirsoft Collection of Freeware Utilities Seach Everything Yes its a windows search tool.
Security and Game Fixes: (reserved) MS Security Anti-Virus Malwarebytes Antimalware, antivirus, antispyware Avast Antivirus AVG Antivirus Avira Antivirus -Very aggressive Comodo Firewall, Antivirus, Internet Security Truecrypt Disc Encryption Software Spybot Search & Destroy Trojan remover Xpadder (£5) Controller software, use your game pad to do just about anything! C&C Generals & ZH How to C&C 3 Fixes Fraps Video Capture & Benchmarking (like for those BF3 replays)
What I recommend to do, is like me: have a dual partition. C:\ with Windows only. D:\ everything else. This way, when you need to re-install.. all you need to backup (or copy to D:\ partition) is AppData (C:\Users\<ACCOUNT>\AppData). AppData has all your program configurations. After you reinstall Windows, just re-link Documents, Music, Video's, etc.. to the D:\ drive appropriate folders, and you have the list of all your software. And in the case of emergency, many software can run without being installed.
You do realise that OpenOffice has had development stopped on it, and the developers moved over to LibreOffice?
One of my eternal standbys has to be 4NT (now superseded by TakeCommand), the CMD replacement. Luckily, JPSoft offers a free console-only version (TCC/LE) which still beats CMD with its hands tied behind its back.
why do you have 2 ears? Some browsers are better for different uses. Not every one likes the same browser. ......
Yes lets try and get this one stickied so we do not have to keep redoing the the same thing. Will work on getting those links in here (the active ones)
Agreed. But four of them? EDIT: I would do the same if the need arose. If he's a web developer then I have nothing more to say.