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Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

Pawnless Endgame

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I've got a 2k SP4 box and an XP SP3 box, my lists are pretty much the same for each:

Web
- Firefox 3.5
- Adobe Flash Player 10 (for Firefox)
- MSIE 5.5 (I hate MSIE 6 and above)
- Soul Seek
- Team Speak.. a bit like Skype
- Google Mail.. online or Thunderbird

Video
- Power DVD
- K Lite Codec Pack
- Media Player Classic
- G Spot

Shell / Customisation
- E Icons
- Microangelo
- Rei's More Extensions
- Resource Hacker

Productivity
- Office 97.. yeah I'm a luddite :-)

Graphics
- Paintshop Pro 7.. PSP8+ was rubbish, plus I don't do Adobe (poor eyesight)
- GIMP
- Ifranview

Sound
- Winamp 3.5
- Mixmeister
- Monkey's Audio
- Sound Forge 4.5
- Mpeg Suite

Tools
- Avira Antivir
- Power Archiver
- 7 Zip
- Nero Burning ROM
- Fox It Reader.. why-oh-why need Adobe Acrobat (200MB+) just to open PDF's?
- Ccleaner
- Speed Fan
- Auslogics Defragger

- And just a one-off, DMX Wizard. My lighting control software :-D

Let's see yours :-)
 
Google Chrome and Mail, Rocket Dock ( i love this) Team speak, fox it reader, Avast, Cpu-z, Gpu-z, Active iso burner, Nimbus, Skype, Spotifi, Squeeze centre, OpenOffice (free word) and Room EQ wizzard.
 
In Win7 as far as I remember I have installed:
Firefox
Thunderbird
Winamp
Office 2007
Virtual DVD drive (can’t remember which one now)
Winrar
VLC (I only use it when Media Player fails when loading subtitles with my xvid movies)
ImgBurn

If I need anything extra I usually install it only when I need to use it.
 
Erm let me see...

My HP HDX16 (See Sig):

Web
- Firefox 3.5
- Internet Explorer v8 (32&64bit)
- Adobe Flash Player 10

Video
- VLC
- Media Player Classic
- HP DVD/Bluray Suite (Cyberlink WinDVD etc..)
- AnyDVD-HD
- Shark007 Codecs

Productivity
- Office 2007 Home and Student Edition
- Office Outlook 2007
- Trellian 'Webpage'

Graphics
- Paintshop Pro X (Thanks to OcUK and Lexmark it was Free)
- PhotoShop CS3
- LightRoom (can't remember the version)
- GIMP
- Picasa 3
- AutoCAD 2009 64bit

Sound
- Winamp 5.54 plus mlipod.dll for iPod

Tools
- Rocket Dock
- Ultramon
- 7 Zip
- uTorrent
- Nero Burning ROM v9
- Adobe Acrobat Professional v8
- DVD-Shrink
- ImgBurn

System Cleaners/Protectors
- Microsoft Security Essentials
- Spybot Search & Destroy
- Adaware 2008 (or 2009 can't remember)
- Malwarebytes

Think thats about it!... probly a few I missed, but each time I have to re-install my OS (being Vista 64Bit its flakey at best!) thats them!!.. untill I get me mits on a copy of Win7 :cool:

My other two systems (5 Year old self build and 10 year old Compaq Laptop) are Ubuntu and Xubuntu (Both v9.04) with just the basics plus 'kTorrent' added to both :)
 
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Web:
Firefox
Outlook 2003
Altbinz
Filezilla

Video:
VLC Player

Productivity:
Office 2003

Graphics:
paint.net

Sound:
Winamp

Tools:
Avast
Malwarebytes
winrar
imgburn
Ccleaner
Virtualbox
 
Monserrat said:
Web
- MSIE 5.5 (I hate MSIE 6 and above)
Click to expand...

IE 5.5? *rubs eyes* *checks post date* Surely this can't render most website's properly these days? Have you not tried the alternatives like Opera, Firefox and Chrome? At least they won't be a massive security risk like IE 5.5 will be.

Monserrat said:
Tools
- Fox It Reader.. why-oh-why need Adobe Acrobat (200MB+) just to open PDF's?
Click to expand...

The last time I checked Adobe Reader was 35.7MB which included Adobe Air (really, really good framework IMHO) - You don't need the full blown Adobe Acrobat to read PDF's. I find version 9.1 to be as good, if not better than Foxit... and it doesn't try to force Ask toolbars on me or set my web page to Ask.com.

Anyway, on to my list:

Opera (Just converted to Opera from Firefox and it's quite nice)
Winamp
Google Mail (Not strictly an app but it's available offline via Gears)
Photoshop CS4
Illustrator CS4
Lightroom v2
FileZilla
Dropbox
7-Zip
VLC
NOD32 v3 (v4 causes no end of trouble for me)
SABnzbd+
uTorrent
Steam + Games
mIRC
Skype
Windows Live Messenger
DestroyTwitter

That's about it :)
 
Well...

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Excluding the OS image backups, other PC driver folders and Vista apps of course the rest has its place on my Start menu \m/
 
software essentials for me:
  • Opera 9.64
  • latest version of 7zip
  • Office 2003 (with office07 converters)
  • ImgBurn
  • KMplayer
  • FoxIt Reader
  • Avast! Antivirus
  • Paint.NET
  • Steam
 
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Only2Clicks;)
Winrar
Foobar2000
Spotify
Utorrent
Windows Live Messenger
Firefox
Virtual Clonedrive
PowerDVD9
 
Hi Kona (btw, are you from Hawaii? Kona = Hawaiian name and I'm nuts about Hawaii!)

Anyway, yeah I know that IE5.5 is getting on now but I am largely a Firefox nut anyway. When I do my web design, I make sure that my pages will read okay on the older browser. I just never liked IE 6, 7 or 8. I liked IE 4 and 5 because of the changes and integration it put into Windows (most people hated that though), but I never use IE as an online browser. Leave the online to FF 3.5.

As for Fox It and the forcing of their Ask toolbar, I just use the portable version. Just run it off a stick regardless of computer.
 
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