Top 10 software YOU need in Windows

[Frak]

Here's my list of software needed in Windows, I encourage you to post yours too :)

1. Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/)
2. Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/)
3. NOD32 Antivirus (http://www.eset.com/)
4. Pidgin (http://www.pidgin.im/)
5. Win-Get (http://windows-get.sourceforge.net/)
6. Foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/)
7. OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/)
8. Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) (2.5 Version)
9. Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) (Personal Preference, I like to use Linux stuff in Windows)
10. XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html)

(Please no bashing)

[karellen]

zone alarm firewall
yahoo messenger
avast antivirus
total commander
firefox
paint.net
winrar
dc++
nero
vlc media player

[darksong]

Its a shame Nod32 is commercial only, it is supposed to be really good.

1. Firefox
2. Windows Media Player
3. Limewire/frostwire
4. Vlc player
5. Nero 6/7
6. Microsoft Office 2007
7. AVG anti-virus free
8. Lavasoft Adware 2007
9. MSN live messenger/pidgin
10. Azureus Vuze (3.0)

Others: CCleaner, Skype, Comodo firewall

[olejorgen]

Its a shame Nod32 is commercial only, it is supposed to be really good.
Yeah, God forbid someone someone making money ^^

[darksong]

Yeah, God forbid someone someone making money ^^

:) - i would like to try it out

[Frak]

:) - i would like to try it out
It's really light, one more reason why I support it. Moreover, its not Norton, that brings it to the top of my list. ;)

[cmat]

From a clean install:

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. OpenOffice.org or AbiWord
4. NOD32 (it might have a conflict with GDI32 :) )
5. Gaim, maybe Pidgin (I've never tried it yet)
6. Nero
7. Adobe Reader
8. GIMP, PS, Paint.NET
9. Azureus
10. WinAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[csimons]

Firefox
Evolution
GVim
MySQL
Apache
JDK
Eclipse
Oracle SQL Developer
PuTTY
MSN Messenger

[MethodOne]

Firefox
Thunderbird
Pidgin
FileZilla
PuTTY
iTunes
VirtualBox
VLC
DeepBurner
OpenOffice.org

[olejorgen]

Sorry that I polloted the thread :)

Here's mine: (in no particular order)

1. StrokeIt
2. Opera
3. Xming
4. VLC / mplayer
5. Visual Studio .NET
6. Acrobat reader
7. Eclipse (if I'm doing java)
8. µTorrent
9. Daemon tools
10. Some free AV I guess

[vexorian]

1. firefox
2. regedit

[derjames]

Not necesarily in that order
(1)Firefox
(2)Notepad2
(3)Real Alternative
(4)Yplay
(5)Virtual DJ
(6)MikTeX
(7)gnuplot
('8')octave
(9)Excel
(10)The Power Toys Packages
(11)Avast
(12)rmclock
(13)paint - the best ever appication from microsoft (well I think is not from them though)
(14)vmware-server
(15)phyton and ruby
(16)microtorrent

[Steve1961]

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Comodo Firewall
4. AVG Antivirus
5. Gimp
6. VLC
7. OpenOffice
8. Spybot
9. Ad-Aware
10. EasyBCD

[jim_p]

1. Winamp ( i cant continue installing stuff without music)
2. Various video and audio Codecs
3. Avg or Nod32
4. Nero
5. 7zip
6. Firefox and Opera
7. uTorrent
8. Outpost firewall
9. Vlc or Kmplayer
10. Photoshop







and 11. Zuma!

[hobieone]

for me
1.firefox
2. everquest2 can't break the addiction an it wont run in wine :confused:
3. ventrilo
4. nero
5.open office
6. photoshop
7. prayers that the os behaves it self
8. avast anti virus
9. various spyware removal tools
10. hope that microsoft figures out what they are doing one of these days
:lolflag:

[darksong]

for me
1.firefox
2. everquest2 can't break the addiction an it wont run in wine :confused:
3. ventrilo
4. nero
5.open office
6. photoshop
7. prayers that the os behaves it self
8. avast anti virus
9. various spyware removal tools
10. hope that microsoft figures out what they are doing one of these days
:lolflag:

Music will set u free :D

and a good gal.

[louistan3]

here's mine from a clean install...

1.firefox
2.AVG
3.Spybot
3.Adaware
4.yahoo messenger
5.PS or Gimp
6.MS office or OpenOffice
7.NERO
8.winrar
9.CCleaner
10.PuTty or NX client (for my experimental home server)

LOL

[Shazaam]

Firefox (+ NoScript+AdBlock)
Thunderbird
Avast
Nero
MoviePlayerClasic(and codecs)
Jetico Personal Firewall
SamSpade
nmap
Grabit
IsoBuster

[stinger30au]

1 firefox
2 thunderbird
3 cd burner xp pro 3
4 img burn
5 dvdfab decrypter
6 dvdshrink
7 open office
8 vlc media player
9 irfanview
10 spybot search & destory plus spywareblaster and avg free

[ahaslam]

I was MS free for a couple of years, I'm not particularly proud of this:

Opera
Comodo Firewall
Avast Home
7-Zip
OpenOffice
hkSVF (checksums)
InfraRecorder (http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/) (highly recommended)
Adobe Reader
Gimp
Games, Games, Games

It's the games that I installed for, I'd sold my buggy XBOX360 to fund a graphics card :-k

[cunawarit]

This is talking about desktop, right?


Visual Studio 2005
SQL Server
GIMP
FileZilla
Firefox
Open Office
Cygwin
Toad
mIRC
Tortoise SVN


And an 11th, ClaimWin.

[digital_exhaust]

NOD32
CCleaner
Gimp
ImgBurn
Picasa
OpenOffice
Anapod Explorer
Thunderbird
ATI Tray Tools
UltraMon

Regarding NOD32....

:) - i would like to try it out

They offer a 30 day trial....try it out.. you'll be glad you did...

[darksong]

Regarding NOD32....



They offer a 30 day trial....try it out.. you'll be glad you did...

If i purchased it, could i install it on mutipul computers and still get updates. I have a HD with XP and vista i want it on, and most probably my brothers PC aswell. :D

ty DS

[digital_exhaust]

If i purchased it, could i install it on mutipul computers and still get updates. I have a HD with XP and vista i want it on, and most probably my brothers PC aswell. :D

ty DS

Not with a single license.. but they offer discounted pricing for multiple copies.

And again, I cannot stress enough how highly I recommend NOD32.. it is simply the best A/V I have ever used...

[Frak]

Its the best and lightest for me. I use Vista so I use whatever I can that has as little Footprint as possible.

[goumples]

1 ZoneAlarm Firewall
2 AVG Anti-Virus
3 Ad-Aware 2007
4 Spybot S & D
5 VLC
6 iTunes
7 Mozilla Firefox
8 Mozilla Thunderbird
9 Open Office
10 DOSBOX

[AlphaMack]

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Clamwin
4. VLC
5. OOo
6. GIMP
7. GAIM/Pidgin
8. Democracy/Miro
9. Winamp
10. Azureus

And then for the games...

OpenArena, Frozen Bubble, SuperTux, PPRacer, and all of the other stuff I have laying around...

[kellemes]

Its a shame Nod32 is commercial only, it is supposed to be really good.


It is very good, much smaller footprint as some of the better known players..
I don't see the problem with it being commercial.. these guys are working hard to protect your system 24/7, nothing wrong with making a living doing that.

[Frak]

It is very good, much smaller footprint as some of the better known players..
I don't see the problem with it being commercial.. these guys are working hard to protect your system 24/7, nothing wrong with making a living doing that.
I wouldn't mind if ClamAV went commercial as long as they got better.

[Midwest-Linux]

1..Firefox
2..Winamp
3..Applian Replay A/V
4..MP3 Direct Cut
5..Pod Puppy (Juice doesn't work anymore)
6..Nero Smart Start or Nero 6
7..Volume Logic (Audio Compression)
8..Grisoft AVG
9..USB 2.0
10.I-Tunes

[UI-Freak]

You almost only list utilities... sounds more like hobby than professional work.

[Frak]

Well if you mean in terms of enjoyment...
1. Civ IV
2. Civ III
3. AutoCAD 2008 (I enjoy using it)
4. AutoCAD 2000 (Same as above)
5. Nexuiz
6. OpenArena
7. Cube 2
8. Halo 2
9. Halo
10. DOOM

[Jordanwb]

1. MagicDisk
2. MagicISO
3. Maxthon
4. RealVNC
5. UTorrent
6. WMP
7. Limewire
8. PHPDesigner
9. XAMPP
10. Windows Live Messenger

[Chymera]

Opera
Winamp
Yahoo messenger
Ps Cs3
eTrust Antivirus
Lavasoft reg cleaner
Adobe Acrobat
Power Archiver
eMule
Bitcomet

--- not necessarily in that order

[Fakircho]

Everyday apps
1 Firefox
2 Sunbird
3 iTunes
4 Google Talk
5 Picasa

Tools of the trade
1 Sketchup 6
2 Photoshop CS3
3 Indesign CS3
4 Autocad 2008
5 Cinema 4D

[Frak]

4 Autocad 2008

I wish they has something like this under Linux :)

I think AutoCAD 2000 runs under Wine, not sure, but I'll give it a shot.

[Fakircho]

The best alternative to AutoCAD is BricsCAD which is based on IntelliCAD
and looks and works 90% like AutoCA. Its not free but it is worth it.

I really need Sketchup 6 to run on Linux then i will start spending more of time in Ubuntu ;)

[getaboat]

1. Zone Alarm
2. AVG Anti Virus
3. Ad-Aware
4. Spybot
Right that's the OS looked after....
5. VS2005
6. SQL Server 2005
7. Firefox
8. Notepad

[Frak]

The best alternative to AutoCAD is BricsCAD which is based on IntelliCAD
and looks and works 90% like AutoCA. Its not free but it is worth it.

I really need Sketchup 6 to run on Linux then i will start spending more of time in Ubuntu ;)
Thanks for the alternative, buying it now :)

[afonic]

After Windows installation I install:

1) Motherboard drivers
2) Graphics card drivers
3) Firefox
4) Steam
5) Warcraft 3
6) Guild Wars
7) WinRAR
8) mIRC

Need nothing more in Windows!

[BradwJensen]

1. Firefox /w Adblock Plus, Flashblock, Foxmarks
2. Pidgin
3. Thunderbird /w minimize to tray
4. FrostWire / LimeWire Pro /w black theme
5. Adobe CS3 Master Collection + Adobe Audition
6. MS Office 2007 Enterprise
7. VLC Media Player
8. Rocketdock
9. Azureus / uTorrent
10. iTunes


I wish Adobe would make Adobe CS3 Master Collection for Linux.. Thats my biggest down; besides i have classes that require MS Office 2007 right now. And Banshee still needs some nice big updates added too it.. Amarok *spell* has too much going on with the gui, it's not laid out as professional/simple as Banshee and im into simple looking things that have a lot of configurations.

[the.dark.lord]

Only One:

1. A distro of Linux - preferably Debian or Ubuntu :D

[angryfirelord]

-AVG anti-virus
-Filseclab personal fireweall
-Spybot Search & Destroy
-Video Driver
-Chipset Driver
-Sound card driver
-Wireless card driver
-Printer driver
-Windows updates
-Windows updates to fix the previous updates

Now, let's get started... :)

[hung]

1. NOD32
2. NewsLeecher
3. dvdfab platinum
4. Mixmeister
5. VSO ConvertXToDVD
6. Winrar
7. Photoshop cs3
8. Microsoft Office
9. Ultraiso
10. ccleaner

[Major_Kong]

In no particular order:

1. Foobar2k
2. Nero
3. MS Office
4. Media Player Classic
5. 7-Zip
6. Kero Firewall
7. AVG
8. Daemon Tools
9. uTorrent
10. Opera

[Anthrax9]

Firefox
Limewire
BitComet
Daemon Tools
VLC Media Player
Yahoo! Messenger
Nero
WinRar
Kaspersky
UltraISO

[stevie_velvet]

A typical office install

Anti-Virus
Firefox
Quad-anti-spyware products
VLC
Foxit (light-wight Acrobat reader)
Rainlender (Outlook, Calender, Tasks & events on Desktop)
Winzip
Nero
Azureus

[MSchenker]

Thank you for this discussion! This week, I successfully installed Kubuntu. I'm still running a dual-boot system with Windows XP. The only reason I don't switch completely away from Windows is because there are still some applications that aren't available in Linux.

Here's my top-10 list in Windows ( actually only 8 ) in order of preference. Items with an "*" are not available in Linux:
OpenOffice
SeaMonkey
Scanning application
*Irfanview
FileZilla
*Cobian (backup utility)
*Infrarecorder (CD image burner)
*iTunes (yes, I still have to use it)

If anyone can suggest good alternatives to the ones noted with a "*" I'd be very appreciative!

Thanks,
Matt

[junjan]

* Very difficult to do the same in Linux
# Compatibility issue
¬ Available in Linux

Adobe Acrobat Professional *
Adobe Photoshop *
Adobe Illustrator *
Adobe Indesign *
Endnote *
Sigmaplot *
Prism Graphpad *
Foobar2000 *
Babylon Translator *
Microsoft Office #
ImageJ ¬

[doomgazer]

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Nod32
4. Nero
5. Peerguardian2
6. Newsleecher
7. Soulseek P2P
8. OpenOffice
9. Quintessential Player
10. MSN Messenger

[inversekinetix]

I know it says 10 but.

AVG
Reg Mechanic
Power Toys
Reg Edit

Daemon Tools
Poweramp
7.zip
Foobar

uTorrent (1.6.1 or earlier)
Torrent Zip
Clearmamepro

MAME
MESS

Nvidia desktop utilities (microsoft has a free virtual desktop manager also)

Firefox
Hydra
KDX

Nero

Illustrator

KXproject drivers for creative soundcards.

[intelligentfool]

MS Visio

thats really one of the only apps that I personally need at work.

[shock2d]

1. Photoshop CS3 (CS2)
2. MS Visual Studio 2005
3. Eclipse for WebDevelopment = php from zend plugin + Aptana
4. ff, opera, ie6 in msVM, ie7, safari for testing
5. thunderbird for my 4 imap emails
6. Miranda IM
7. DC++
8. uTorrent
9. Putty
10. SmartFTP

[marco123]

I don't actually use Windows any more but when I did the first things I would install were: -

Zone Alarm
AVG
Sybot
SpywareBlaster
Ad-Aware
Codecs: Xvid, ogg etc..
PowerDVD
Bittorrent
Adobe Reader
UXTheme Patcher.

[Asobi]

1 firefox
2 NOD + outpost
3 winamp
4 media player classic + cccp
5 utorrent
6 skype
7 microsoft/open office
8 adobe crap so you can satisfy you artistic impulses

to fill the list cause i dont know any more:

9 disabling all the backup/restore who ever needs them/we Microsoft will protect you for your own stupidity settings
10 an image of Ubuntu ready to be burned and booted :mrgreen:

[klange]

1. PuTTY
2. VNC Viewer
That's about all I use on any Windows computer.

[SomeGuyDude]

Firefox
Trillian
Alcohol 120%
iTunes
Photoshop
uTorrent
Office 2007 (screw you, it's great)

That's all, really.

[Unreal223linux]

IE7 + IE7 pro (I dont like firefox, its bloated and buggy)
Office 07 ultimate(can never use openoffice again after using this.)
WMP 11(Best media player I have ever used. Awesome library features and looks great.)
Nero( Kind of bloated but still the best around)
DVDFab Decryptor(awesome is the only way to describe this program)
VLC(used to use codec packs but this is better and doesn't install lots of bloat)
Picasa(best photo manager around period)
Photoshop
Dreamweaver

[LaRoza]

I actually use the same programs in Windows as I do in Linux. Opera, Pidgin, OpenOffice, gcc and so on.

I use Windows for testing, because I have my server set up on it, and my testing browsers.

[Epilonsama]

1. Avast Antivirus Free Edition (updates daily)
2. Zone Alarm Firewall Free Edition (theres nothing better)
3. Spybot Search and Destroy (you know you need it)
4. Opera (better than firefox by a longshot in windows,equal on linux)
5. Winamp (theres nothing better than that classic music player)
6. uTorrent (light,fast,simple)
7. Office 2007 (i like the new Ribbon interface)
8. Media Player Clasic (the best multimedia player if you dont care about fancy interfaces, is really light)
9. Pidgin (all in one)
10. GIMP (im used to it and is better than "buying" photoshop)

[Fixman]

Norton Antivirus
AVG Antivirus
The 1000$ firewall
MGH AntiSpam
Windows Firewall

Anyway, it wont work bcause of internal flaws

[darksong]

Paint.net is really cool!

[Joh_]

1. MSN Messenger (http://get.live.com/messenger/overview) (or "Windows Live Messenger" as it's called nowadays)
2. foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/)
3. World of Warcraft (http://www.wow-europe.com/) (the occasional once-a-month playing)

Out of those three, only foobar has a decent replacement at the moment, sadly enough. All messengers have something that bothers me and I can't play WoW with wine since I have an ATI card and it lags to hell. :/

As soon as I get my nVidia card though, (and in turn am able to throw this ATI card out the window) I'll be saying bye to any and all microsoft products other than my virtual XP desktop for e-identification and stuff like that.

[gofeddy]

Tune Up Utilities 2007. I guess its a must for every Windows OS.

[ryphix]

1. Pro Tools
2. Ableton Live
3. Wavelab
Really, for any professional audio I do.

For everything else, I just boot Ubuntu.

[dcquence]

FL Studio
Virtual DJ
Enigma
Cubase
Soundforge
drivers for my audio hardware that doesn't work in Linux (axiom-25, delta-66, dm950USB)

Wine can only do so much(vdj crashes it every time) and I have not been able to get usb audio to work in virtualbox

o well, guess it's back to dual-booting aka pain in the ***

[digital_exhaust]

I've already posted mine, but all of you using SpyBot and Adaware really need to take a look at SuperAntispyware (http://www.superantispyware.com/).... stupid, stupid name, but the fact is, the others can not keep up.. and SAS does... really.

And NOD32 just got better recently with v3.0.. it really can't be beat.

[CM Xtasy]

Here's what my NEEDS are

1. Microsoft Office 2007
2. iTunes
3. Photoshop CS3
4. Premier Pro CS3
5. Firefox
6. uTorrent
7. Nero
8. AIM
9. Limewire Pro
10. Steam

[Kernel Sanders]

Office 2007
Ashampoo Burning Studio
Nero 6
iTunes
Firefox

If i'm honest though, the ONLY thing keeping me in Windows is poor Microsoft Office file format support in Linux applications.

Once OpenOffice or IBM Symphony supports .doc .xls and .ppt flawlessly, I can lose windows for good.

I would love to use open formats, but it's absolutely unavoidable for me at the moment.

I had a nasty e-mail because I sent someone a pdf rather than a .doc the other day :rolleyes:

[ikt]

1. Winamp
2. Opera
3. uTorrent
4. World of Warcraft
5. MSN Messenger

That pretty much covers everything..

[andlinux21]

1. Firefox
2. Winamp
3. Avg Free Anti-Virus
4. Yahoo Messenger
5. DVD Shrink
6. uTorrent
7. Lightroom
8. Nero
9. ACDSee
10. BookSmart

[mindtrick]

Firefox
Cfosspeed
Flashget
Winrar
Utorrent
Nod32
Virtualbox
Gom player
Winamp
Daemon tools

[mp3_freak_721]

1. Firefox
2. Winamp
3. uTorrent
4. Frostwire
5. AVG free
6. Abiword
7. Thunderbird
8. Daemon tools
9. Rocket dock
10. Yahoo messenger

;)

[Erdaron]

1. foobar2000
2. VLC
3. MS Office
4. MathCAD (MatLAB for stupid, lazy people)
5. TurboCAD (a cheap knock-off from AutoCAD)
6. Comodo firewall
7. AVG anti-virus
8. Skype
9. Trillian
10. Firefox and Thunderbird

I must say, after trying VLC and foobar2000, I will be abandoning Winamp after many years of faithful use.

Music will set u free :D

and a good gal.
Ha, funny story. My friend in college got his girlfriend to start playing Everquest. She broke up with him for a guy she met on EQ.

[LinuxIsInnovation]

Photoshop
VLC
WMP 11
Kaspersky Antivirus
MS Office
Visual Studio
FlashGet
G-Talk
Yahoo Messenger
PowerISO

[SjRaptor]

MS Office 2003
Firefox
PuTTY
WinRAR
uTorrent
Pidgin
Nero

and most important would be Cygwin. Without it, I can't work!