RE: What software do you use?

dark_matter

dark_matter

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Similar to another post about essential software. Although not all essential, this is the list of software I have installed on my PC. Yes, I do use them all. Just not all at once. :)

Browser : Opera
eMail Client : Thunderbird
Graphics : Photoshop CS
DVD : Power DVD
CD/DVD Authoring : Nero
Word Processing : Word
DTP : Publisher
Spreadsheets : Excel
Backup : Acronis
Virtual PC : VMServer
Firewall : Sygate (Old, but I like it)
AV : AVG Free
Defrag : O&O Defrag
Music Composition : Ableton
Map : Autoroute 2001
p2p : Utorrent
 
Browser : Firefox
eMail Client : Microsoft outlook
Graphics : Photoshop CS
DVD : Power DVD v4
CD/DVD Authoring : Nero and Record Now Max 4.5
Word Processing : Word
DTP : Corel Draw 11
Spreadsheets : Excel
Backup : Norton ghost
Virtual PC : ?
Firewall : Norton Antivirus (never had a problem)
AV : see above
Defrag : never bothered
Music Composition : Sonar
Music Editing - Soundforge 4.5
Map : Autoroute 2005
p2p : Never use torrents, newsgroups 4tw
 
Browser : Opera
eMail Client : Internet Based Email
Graphics : Paint.net or MS Pain
DVD : VLC Media Player or Intervideo Win DVD
CD/DVD Authoring : CDXPBurner Pro
Word Processing : MS Word
DTP : MS Publisher if ever I do
Spreadsheets : MS Excel
Backup : WD Sync Utility (which is crap...)
Virtual PC : ?
Firewall : Windows Firewall (Never had a problem so far)
AV : AVG Free Edition
Defrag : Buzzsaw but probably go back to Perfect Disk
Music Composition : ? (I don't)
Music Editing - Creative Software (But I don't use this often at all)
Map : Internet - Multimap or something like that
p2p : Never use torrents or p2p
 
well someone has decided to bump a 14 month old thread so i'm editing this post as i've changed a fair bit since then..... :p

Browser : firefox
eMail Client : outlook 2003
Graphics : paint.net
DVD : media player classic/ffdshow
CD/DVD Authoring : imgburn
Word Processing : word 2003
DTP : none
Spreadsheets : excel 2003
Backup : ntbackup
Virtual PC : vmware workstation trial (waiting for server to be vista compatible)
Firewall : none (router is good enough on it's own)
AV : none
Defrag : defraggler
Music Composition : none
Map : mappoint.msn.co.uk
p2p : utorrent
 
Browser : Firefox
eMail Client : Mozilla Thunderbird
Graphics : Photoshop 7.0
DVD : Nero Show Time
CD/DVD Authoring : Nero 5
Word Processing : Word
DTP : ??
Spreadsheets : Excel
Backup : -
Virtual PC : ?
Firewall : Kaspersky Internet Security
AV : Kaspersky Internet Security
Defrag : PerfectDisk
Music Composition : Used to be WMP11 untill it stopped working. Now its Winamp
Music Editing: -
Map : Google maps
p2p : uTorrent, Azerus
 
Browser : Firefox
eMail Client : Thunderbird
Graphics : Paint (!)
DVD : Power DVD
CD/DVD Authoring : Nero
Word Processing : Word
DTP : Nope
Spreadsheets : Nope
Backup : Ghost
Virtual PC : VMWare
Firewall : Outpost
AV : NOD32
Defrag : PerfectDisk
Music Composition : Nope
Map : Nope
p2p : Utorrent / Newsleecher
 
Browser : Firefox
eMail Client : Thunderbird
Graphics : Photoshop CS
DVD : Windows Media Player 11
CD/DVD Authoring : Nero
Word Processing :Word 2007
Spreadsheets : Excel 2007
Backup : -
Virtual PC : Virtualbox
Firewall : -
AV : -
Defrag : Disk Defragmenter [Comes with XP]
Music Composition : -
Map : -
p2p : Utorrent
 
Browser : Opera
eMail Client : Thunderbird
Graphics : Paint.Net
DVD : VLC
CD/DVD Authoring : ImgBurn
Word Processing : Word
DTP : Publisher
Spreadsheets : Excel
Backup : Synctoy (meaning to get Acronis True Image sometime soon)
Virtual PC : Virtual PC
Firewall : Comodo
AV : NOD32
Defrag : PerfectDisk/(Contig.exe/PowerDefragmenter GUI)
Music Composition : Er Audacity as and when I need it
Map : Google Maps
p2p : Utorrent
Music player: Winamp
PDF reader: Foxit

I also use CCleaner, RegSeeker, Spybot, SpywareBlaster and Launchy on a regular basis. Oh and FileHippo's Update checker prog.
 
Browser : IE7
eMail Client : Sky Gmail
Graphics : Photoshop CS2
DVD : VLC Player
CD/DVD Authoring : N/A
Word Processing :Word 2007
Spreadsheets : Excel 2007
Backup : N/A
Virtual PC : N/A
Firewall : Sky Router
AV : N/A
Defrag : Disk Defragmenter [XP]
Music Composition : WMP11
Map : N/A
p2p : Utorrent
 
Vista 64 and xp. All work on both fine

Browser : Firefox
eMail Client : None
Graphics : Paint ,net
DVD : WMP/VLC
CD/DVD Authoring : Nero
Word Processing : Open Office
Spreadsheets : Open Office
Backup : None (hdd- copy and paste)
Virtual PC : None
Firewall : Windows
AV : Anti vir
Defrag : O&O Defrag
Music Composition : None
Map : None
p2p : None
Music player: winamp 5.5
Database:Sql server 2005
Website = Visual basic 2008 web Devlepor
PDf: Foxit Reader
News Group: news Rover
CD drive emulator: Deamon tools
TV guide: DigiGuide (well worth *** £5.99 a year, wish there was something free but non come close :()
Download Manager: FlashGet
Spyware: Spyboat S&D + Lavasoft AdAware
Mp3 tagger: Music Brainz Picard
 
Browser : Firefox
eMail Client : Thunderbird
Graphics : Photoshop CS
DVD : VLC Player
CD/DVD Authoring : Nero
Word Processing : OpenOffice Writer
DTP : Publisher
Spreadsheets : OpenOffice maths
Backup : External harddrive!
Firewall : Online Armor
AV : Avira AntiVir PE Premium
Defrag : Windows defrag
Music Composition : Windows Media Player 11
Usenet client : Grabit!
Anti-Spyware: SuperAntiSpyware, Ewido, A-Squared.
 
Browser : IE/Firefox, mainly IE now though.
eMail Client : Browser based
Graphics : Gimp/Paint.net
DVD : default
CD/DVD Authoring : Nero
Word Processing : OpenOffice Writer
DTP : OpenOffice Impress
Spreadsheets : OpenOffice Calc.
Backup : n/a
Virtual PC : n/a
Firewall : Windows Firewall
AV : AVG Free Edition
Defrag : default, but i havn't defragged this PC yet.
Music Composition : Audacity/MixCraft 3
Map : Google
p2p : n/a
Music player: Windows Media Player/Quicktime
Database: OpenOffice Base
 
Browser : IE7
eMail Client : Outlook 2007
Graphics : Photoshop CS3, Flash CS3
DVD : WMP 11
CD/DVD Authoring : None, well Windows built in one i guess
Word Processing : MS Word 2007
DTP : None
Spreadsheets : MS excel 2007
Backup : Vistas automated backup
Firewall : Windwos Firewall
AV : Avast Home
Defrag : Windows defrag
Music Composition : Windows Media Player 11
Anti-Spyware: Spybot S&D
IM: Windows Live Messenger
 
Browser : IE7
eMail Client : Thunderbird
Graphics : Photoshop Elements 5
DVD : Erm...some Acer stuff that came with my laptop! Might even me Windows Media Centre!?
CD/DVD Authoring : NTI CD & DVD Maker (came with laptop - seems OK for what I need)
Word Processing : Word 2000
DTP : N/A
Spreadsheets : Excel 2000
Backup : Backup the files I need manually (good old drag and drop)
Virtual PC : N/S
Firewall : PC Tools Firewall Plus (and a NAT Router)
AV : Nod32
Anti Spyware: Windows defender (at the moment - will install Spybot soon as this is a new system)
Defrag : Windows defrag
Music Composition : N/A
Map : AA Road Atlas 2007 :)
p2p : N/A
 
Browser: IE7
E-mail Client: Windows Mail
Graphics: Photoshop CS 3 / Coreldraw X3 / Swish
DVD: WMP 11
Word processing: Notepad :D
DTP: Cannnot compute
Spreadsheets: N/A
Backup: Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V
Virtual PC: N/A
Firewall: Windows firewall
AV: Kaspersky 7
Defrag: Windows defrag
Music composition: N/A
Map: I use the force!
P2P: N/A
 
Browser : Firefox
eMail Client : Outlook 2007
Graphics : Photoshop CS3
DVD : Medica Player Classic
CD/DVD Authoring : Ashampoo
Word Processing : Word 2007
DTP : CS3 acts as my dtp
Spreadsheets : Excel 2007
Backup : My flash drive
Virtual PC : Bleh
Firewall : Hardware fire wall in router
AV : AVG Free
Defrag : Perfect Disk
Music Composition :
Map : Google Earth
p2p : Azureus
 
O/S: Windows Vista Home Premium x64
Browser: Firefox (NoScript + Adblock Plus)
eMail Client: Windows Mail (Vista x64)
Graphics:Corel Paint ShopPro X2
DVD: Vista Media Center (With DVD Library + FFDShow)
CD/DVD Authoring: Nero
Word Processing: Word 2007
Spreadsheets: Excel 2007
Backup: Manually
Firewall: Vista x64 with Outbound filtering configured as well
AV:Kaspersky
Defrag: O&O Defrag
Music: iTunes
P2P/Torrent:Utorrent
 
Browser : Firefox
eMail Client : Outlook 2007
Graphics : Paint.Net (I'm not a naughty Photoshop stealer)
DVD : dont use it
CD/DVD Authoring : Nero
Word Processing : Word 07
Spreadsheets : Excel 07
Backup : MS SyncToy
Virtual PC : VMWorkstation
Firewall : windows
AV : AVG Free
Defrag : no point
text editor: Scite
VOIP: Skype
MSN: MS MSN Client
 
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