What's the longest (in years) you've used a single program?

Pawnless Endgame · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:29

And keeping the same version too! Feel free to include operating systems, and reasons for sticking if you like.

For me, I've used Paintshop Pro 7 for 11 years and MS Office '97 for 12 years. Paintshop Pro 8 had a 10-fold footprint for seemingly very little extra over PSP7. Office '97 I kept because 97-2003 is interchangeable. I also use OpenOffice, in before someone jumps onto the Office 2007 bandwagon :-)

Longest running OS was Windows 2000 at 6 years.

Duke · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:32

Another PSP7 user here!

marc2003 · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:35

probably XP/IE6 for 5 years. everything else is updated far more often.

theheyes · 6 Apr 2011 at 19:51

Interesting question and I'm going to assume games count. Thinking about it it's probably Command & Conquer: Red Alert which I've consistently gone back to over the years, and as far as I know the freeware release is the same major version. It's by no measure the "most used" software I've ever owned but it's by far the oldest thing I've tried to install at home recently.

megalomanic · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:27

hmm same version of something... probably PSP8 for around 5 years now, got it on sale for £15 from a purple video games outlet. second would be winamp, though not sure how many versions I'v used of it.

Raumarik · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:43

Just a little util but I still find myself using it well over 10 years later.

Startup Control Panel
http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

Shame Mike's let the forum get spammed by porn ads though..

Pawnless Endgame · 6 Apr 2011 at 20:56

Ahhh yes, games count too!

I am a religious user of Winamp too since 1999 although I've floated through the 2.xx's and the 5.xx's, but always stuck with classic skins.

Simian · 7 Apr 2011 at 08:37

Hows 20 Years of Using AutoCAD!!...

I've used every version from r4 DOS based with a Tablet, up to the newest 2011 64bit...

Winamp since version 2.06... dunno how long ago that was!!

bledd · 7 Apr 2011 at 09:30

I was going to say Winamp, then I saw the version must stay the same.

It's winamp lite with a classic skin, so it still looks the same

Deleted member 77746 · 7 Apr 2011 at 09:32

Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 - 11 years and counting.

d_brennen · 7 Apr 2011 at 09:41

WinQuake

Notepad, though not the same version

div0 · 7 Apr 2011 at 09:45

Steam

Must have been using that a good 7 years or so.

gord · 7 Apr 2011 at 09:54

Mine is probably Theme Hospital. Had that about 13 years, reinstalled not that long ago.

"Doctor to Inflator Room.."

Snograt · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:11

Irfanview.

BlackAle · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:28

Acdsee Classic (10-12 years)

Greenlizard0 · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:43

Monserrat said:
I am a religious user of Winamp too since 1999 although I've floated through the 2.xx's and the 5.xx's, but always stuck with classic skins.

Yeap same until Bento came a long.

Nice simple black skin. You'd think all applications were able to do this.

VeNT · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:48

ICQ99b

I'd say windows XP or 2k, I used 2k for YEARS and only started with XP a few years back when 2k's game/DX support started to fall off

Although winamp prolly as I still use the same nullsoft installer .exe I had from back in 2000

memyselfandi · 7 Apr 2011 at 12:36

I think I have been running ACDSee 3.1 off of a cover disk from probably around sometime in the '90s. Now it's used on my netbook due to it's small footprint.

lurkio · 7 Apr 2011 at 12:43

Ultraedit , think I have been using it daily for about 15 years

feriso · 7 Apr 2011 at 12:50

AutoCAD2000 - 12yrs
IrfanView - 15yrs