Your essential format applications..

For my gaming machine:

Drivers
Steam
Games

For work:

(whatever drivers installed with Windows 7)
Firefox
Chrome
Safari
IETester
Adobe Creative Suite
MS Office
Filezilla
Aptana
IMGBurn
Crossloop
Virtual Box
Skype
 
Raymond Lin said:
It's call Apple Time Machine :p

No idea honestly, I have a Mac and I have never installed a driver lol
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You've probably installed a few and just not realised it with third party devices.

Anyway I look at a fresh format as a chance to get rid of junk. I make a point of not having such a list and just use the computer - installing things as and when I need them. If it never makes it back onto my machine I obviously didn't miss it.

And as someone said above imaging is much easier for this kind of thing.
 
Pretty much the same things already listed.

Very surprised no-one listed Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. It is safe as houses but clears four or five times more crud out of the registry than CCleaner. I still use CCleaner because it cleans other crud as well as Registry crud but I always run Eusing after CCleaner.

Doubt what I'm saying? Clean your registry with CCleaner then run Eusing I think you'll be amazed. Don't worry though it is safe and I've never know it cause any problems.
 
VFM Addict said:
Pretty much the same things already listed.

Very surprised no-one listed Eusing Free Registry Cleaner. It is safe as houses but clears four or five times more crud out of the registry than CCleaner. I still use CCleaner because it cleans other crud as well as Registry crud but I always run Eusing after CCleaner.

Doubt what I'm saying? Clean your registry with CCleaner then run Eusing I think you'll be amazed. Don't worry though it is safe and I've never know it cause any problems.
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I remember a thread on the piriform forums about Eusing giving false positives and removing things that shouldn't be removed. Possibly bias'd opinion given the forum, but I've only used it once and found that a lot of what it was claiming was fixable actually wasn't. Haven't used it in forever though.
 
In order:

  • Windows 7
  • Windows Updates
  • Office 2010
  • Office Updates
  • Drivers from motherboard manufactures website
  • Drivers from GPU manufactures website
  • NOD32
  • Flash Player & Shockwave Player from Adobe's website (just the standalones though, I refuse to use their download manager)
  • Adobe Creative Suite CS4 Master Collection (I need to get CS5 sometime)
  • Networked multifunction drivers (from Canon's website)

All with copious reboots in-between.
 
Brian8bit said:
I remember a thread on the piriform forums about Eusing giving false positives and removing things that shouldn't be removed. Possibly bias'd opinion given the forum, but I've only used it once and found that a lot of what it was claiming was fixable actually wasn't. Haven't used it in forever though.
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Never known it cause a problem or remove things it should not and know dozens of folks who would agree.

As to it removing things that couldn't be fixed that doesn't make sense to me. If that was so and you cleaned with it then ran it again immediately then the same problems would appear as needing to be corrected again. That doesn't happen so I can't see that as being correct.

Each to their own though and like a lot of things in computing the differences between X and Y are often so very small and academic that they make absolutely no real world difference.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
I don't trust it though. :D So I install them myself.
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Just to add some balance to this - for a few printers I've found the driver Windows gets to be better than the latest from the manufacturers site.

Also, I'm not sure where the trust issue comes into the equation? If anything, the drivers from Windows Update are going to be more reliable than the newest available.
 
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