Windows List: Software (almost) everyone should own...

ACDSee
WinZip
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Winamp (v2)
BulletProof FTP
Software firewall
DU Meter
Ad Aware
ICQ
Active Ports
Process Explorer
VNC

and ofcourse Quake!

 

GWD Text editor

A really handy tool for coding HTML, JAVA, ASP, PHP etc... does the colour coding and you can download new programming language packs for it, so it can colour code them too.

www.gwdsoft.com

 

MAYA- DL free from Alias/Waveefront site
Photoshop - Cause its the Daddy
Power LCD - Froody goodness for your GFX LCD rev2 soon
ACDSee - Organse all those pictures and images
MSN messenger - its MS but what the hey

err and im sure theres more

 

good good, the list is progressing...i've seen a few bits n pieces that i should get...

...everyone is on the right track...and yes, please list software you use to replace standard Windows apps (like that Notepad thing i saw listed (can't remember the name!?))

Thought some more:

DivX Codec + The Playa
WinRar
3DMark (duh!)
Direct Connect
Soulseek
SmartFTP
RealPlayer (hate this thing, but some people still insist encoding their streaming audio/video in this format)
Quicktime
CoffeeCup HTML Editor

Even though I have XP, I much prefere the power/options of WinRar/Winzip...

*rad

 

Trillian

from www.trillian.cc

it has msn messenger, yahoo! messenger, AIM, IRC and ICQ all in one and there's a free version as well as a pro version ....

also XPAntiSpy

to unistall MSN Messenger and some other stuff

 

perhaps instead of names you should go for types...

Mp3 Player: Winamp, Music Match, Sonique my pref in that order(although MM Burns pretty good)

Internet Browser + FTP: IE, Netscape, Opera + cute(crippleware, at least the version I have), smart

Word Processor: Office is good but expensive, Corel WP Suite is also good

Image editing: Paint, PSP, although Photochop is better i think.

3d Modelling: Maya is good and free although I dont like the watermarks, I used one years ago by a company called vitrius(i think) called concept cad, worked on a p266 w.64 ram so...

Computer customizing: Tweak UI, Ultramon, etc, etc

Communication: Trillian, Mirc, messenger

Media Player: WMP, ATI player, Real, etc

Spyware removal: adaware, Spybot S&d, etc...

for me music is a must:
noteworthy composer,
fruity loops 3,

Benchmarking proggie, IE sandra, 3d Mark, Pc mark
Seti/Folding/Distributed computing: After all you must sleep sometime...

Zip PRoggie: Alladin expander + winrar will unzip anything you can think of.

Divx + the playa, you be right my friend

 

Anyone who has posted to this thread should go back and make sure that their post contains hyperlinks to the software's website. Makes checking out someone's recommendations a lot easier

My two cents:

VBSEdit - A fantastic editor for VB and ASP Scripts. $15US to regsiter.

PuTTY - Telnet and SSH client. Free.

Coolmon - System stats on your desktop.

I'd put in a vote for Motherboard Monitor, but it doesn't seem to like the Gigabyte motherboards

[Edit] Oooh, yeah, I forgot my fave program of the moment: Popfile - This thing is excellent at Bayesian email filtering. Mmmm.... bye bye spam [/Edit]

 

I'm amazed, nobody's mentioned Irfanview (free fast graphics viewer/converter).

Quickview Plus (often free old version on mags) - file viewer

LastChance (free) - runs programs (eg backup) on shutdown

XXCopy (free) - perfect for quick incremental backups.

Clipboard Magic (free) - C&P not once, but some.

TEA - no-nags crossword/anagram solver. MANTICORE = ?

Transparent Icon text - several freeware

Exact Audio Copy - best ripper

Screen Ruler - measure them pixels, line stuff up.

Free Surfer - sorts out OE usenet threads.

ZoneAlarm - keep the baddies at bay

Acrobat Reader, IE6, OE

They can learn how google works

 

how could I forget a CD Ripper?!?

I use CDex - very good, simple but powerful (has many different encoders - ie, Lame, Ogg Vorbis etc)

 

fo cdripping, for storage reasons only, i like, no love cd-da i think it rocks

 

Found a good alternative to DU Meter called Netmeter - and it's freeware

Pretty much exactly the same as DU Meter with a slightly different look.

Available here

 

hotmetal pro
staroffice
mozilla
netscape
Windows messanger
AVG Anti virus
truespace 3 (if i knew how 2 use it)
ISO Buster
Nero
Real Player
iPhoto Plus

 

Analog-X (most of thes/w)
Mozilla (love the "tab browsing";built-in pop-up stoper)
Flashget
Icq
FTP Voyager
Serv-U

Acdsee
Caption-it
Casper XP
Nero
winrar

Audio Conversion Wizard
MP3 Gain
Tag&Rename
TMPGEnc + Radtools
Sonic stage
winamp v2.81

Oxygen Phone Manager
Logo Manager
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Please be aware of Trillian; as your account is easily be hacked when you are online......cuz my friends MSN,ICQ,AIM account got hacked after using Trillian.

 

on the previous topic involving everyone needing a 3D modeler, one that i use is WINGS3D.... it's more of a fun tool than anything, but very powerful in the right (educated) hands

the best part is it's free

find it at ... www.wings3d.com

 

Some of my favs

Infraveiw- second to PS only
StarOffice- better than m$
dBPower Amp- good all in one cd ripper and converter, i like it
express PCB - schematics and PCB layout here
Gmax- free 3dSmax
Opera- why do you use Ie again?
DesignCad 200- free cad from one of your killer $15 rags

I think that about does it

 

Word or some other equal program
Fireworks, in my opinion more useful to the "mass" than Photochop (some reasons: simplier, cheaper, ...)

Dreamweaver (or other program to fast create webpages)

A popup-killer

A mailchecker-program like the one I've made

edit: you may now laugh, but once you're used to the mailchecker program, you can't live without it anymore! It's addicting...I tell ya

 

A few that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Crimson Editor - Free text editor with syntax files available for pretty much everything.
Mailwasher - Like the name says, free utility to check mail before you download it, has the option to bounce your mail which is dead handy with persistent spam.
Filzip - Free Zip utility (IMHO) better than WinZip.

 

Not read all of them, but my contributions. The listed will always be installed first thing upon a re-install of XP:

AVG 6381fu Free Edition (Or other AV software)
Via 4in1s
Other drivers + Refresh fix
WinRAR (so I can unzip the rest of the list )
Textpad (can't believe nobody said that already!)
Winamp 2.X
CrazyBrowser (Or another browser other than IE)
PS/PSP
PowerDVD
Nero
CuteFTP Pro 2
SSH Secure Shell Client
Getright
Sun's Java Virtual Machine
Adobe Acrobat Reader
DivX
Real Player Lite }
Quick Time } Both just to get it out the way for later
MS Office (Outlook)

Apache
PHP
MySQL
MySqlFront
Oracle
FTP ServU


The top list is what everyone should have. The second is more of a personal preference list.

 

avg - free virus protection from here. im still new to it, but it seems to be a good proggie. full scans, auto-protect, file scans, free updates - did i mention its free?

quicktime - gotta see some movie trailers!

illustrator - not free or cheap, but i cant live without it

 

I dont think anybody has mentioned... PowerDVD?