5 programs you highly recommend!

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Just formatted my PC after over 8 months! I had lots of **** installed and my windows drive was almost full (being only ~73GB).

Anyway, feels almost like a new PC now! I have noticed most the software I had installed was all out of date so I am updating everything.

I installed:

Win 7 Ultimate 64
Windows Updates
Avast
Firefox
K-Lite Kodecs (inc Media Player Classic)
MSN
Skype
7-Zip
Winrar
Office 2010

I think that's most of it so far.

(1) What 5 programs do you highly recommend that I do not have listed above?

(2) Is Nero Burning Rom still fairly decent or is there something else I should look to get/buy?

(3) What Firefox addons do you recommend? (I quite like the look of the new firefox)
 
4T5 said:
Opera.
Avast.
Ad Aware.
CCleaner.
ITunes.
VLC Media player.
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You just reminded me I also have Itunes installed, need it really since I have an Iphone! Will look into the others.

benjo said:
Opera
MPC-HC
AntiVir
Foobar2000
Malwarbytes
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Thanks will look into those.

Garee said:
VLC Media Player
CCleaner

Have a search for the firefox add on thread. There are some great ones in there.
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Thanks, didn't see that thread it must have gone off the first page. Will definately go through it tonight, I really like the new firefox but it needs some tweaking!

philtorrens said:
I ditched Nero a long time ago as it had become total bloatware. Get yourself Ashampoo burning studio which is much better ;)
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Hmmm, never even heard of ashampoo!

I would only ever install nero burning rom, not all the other **** that it comes with.
 
Photoshop
Media Player Classic Home Cinema x64
CCleaner
Rainmeter
Spotify

I use Imgburn for Ashampoo Free for disks

I only use firefox for the Video Download Helper add-on, chrome for everything else, even though that add-on is probably available for chrome i'm too lazy :D
 
e36Adz said:
Hmmm, never even heard of ashampoo!

I would only ever install nero burning rom, not all the other **** that it comes with.
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Even with doing a custom install I still found Nero was getting way too bloated for what it is. Started using Ashampoo burning studio and haven't looked back :)
 
Sumatra Portable
Foobar2000 Portable
VirtualDubPortable
VLCPortable
PuTTYPortable
IronPortable

Granted that's 6, but I don't really like using IE...
 
There is already a sticky with loads of useful freeware. Most of which has been mentioned in here again.

Go find the Firefox addon thread too. No point repeating yourselves!
 
Defraggler. I can't tell you if it's better than other Defrag utilities but it looks awesome and takes a long time so I assume it's the best.
Foobar and VLC for all my media needs as well without having to mess around with too many programs.
 
SiriusB said:
There is already a sticky with loads of useful freeware. Most of which has been mentioned in here again.

Go find the Firefox addon thread too. No point repeating yourselves!
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This doesn't have to be freeware.

Plus there are literally thousands in that thread, so if ppl just state there top few it would save me (and possibly others) a lot of time! :)
 
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