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Thread ID: 32691 2003-04-25 09:09:00 Survey: Essential applications Susan B (19) Press F1
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138853 2003-04-25 13:41:00 Trillian
Mozilla
Phoenix
Foobar
Power Archiver
frhedit - hex editor
TweakUI
DC++ (or similar)
Clip Case
Media Player Classic
Flash Get
a few regedits
Mail Washer
Multi Res
Vitrite - transparency features and stay on top features in 2k/XP
-=JM=- (16)
138854 2003-04-25 20:17:00 Now Susan,

I would have put most of those into the essential category :)

Mike.
Mike (15)
138855 2003-04-25 22:18:00 Opera 6
AVG anti-virus
Zone Alarm Home (the freebie)
AdAware
Win Zip
Ws_ftp
Norton CleanSweep
Arachnophilia (html editor)
And a big happy face :D
mark c (247)
138856 2003-04-25 22:59:00 Here's a few of the main apps for Doze that I use.. Mainly Win2K or XP as the OS :-):

ABI Word
A great, free Word-Processor

Ad-Aware 6
Clean out all the nasties named spyware etc.

Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.05
Couldnt read PDF's without it ;-) (adobe.com)

Audio Crusher
Encode MP3's from CD's :-)

AVG 6
Gotta be virus free (grisoft.com)

Cursor XP
for Win2K/XP, makes your cursors come alive! (stardock.com)

Damn NFO Viewer
For reading .NFO files.. Dunno the URL, but look it up in google, great tool!

DAP 5.3
Great downoad manager - Dowload Accelerator Plus (Free) (speedbit.com)

Desktop Architect
For modifying those themes with ease!

Direct X 9
Wouldnt be without the latest DX for games :-) (microsoft.com)

DVD-Region-Free
Only for my PC with a DVD Player, allows you to play DVD's from ANY region (dvdidle.com)

Folder Size Shell Extention
Adds a Tab to a Folder Propeties window, great for viewing the size of folders and sub-folders!

Free Bible
Freebible reader, with plugins and different bible versions (freebible.com)

Goldwave
Great tool to edit sound files and extract audio.. best sound manipulation tool ever for free! (goldwave.com)

ICQ Lite
A Lite version of ICQ - with No Ads :-) (icq.com)

IP Scanner
Scans LAN IP's and can shut-down NT-Based systems (radmin.com)

MSN Messenger 5
Need I explain this? (messenger.xtramsn.co.nz)

Multiquence
An addition to Goldwave, for track fades/mixes etc. (goldwave.com)

Neotrace Express
Graphical trace of IP Addresses and the route taken to get to it!

Nero/Nero NET
Wouldnt be without it (ahead.de)

No-IP DUC
Ive recently changed from dyndns to no-ip.com and this is the DUC (Dynamic Update Client) (no-ip.com)

Object Desktop Apps
Too many useful apps to like, but the likes of DesktopX, Window Blinds, Icon Packager (stardock.com)

Phoenix
A great free browser I wouldnt be without (mozilla.com, or search google for 'download phoenix nightly')

PuTTY
Win32 client for SSh, TelNet, and a few others

Remote Administrator
rAdmin is a Remote Administration tool, very powerful! (radmin.com)

Text talkster
Read's documents, the clipboard, or text you type :-)

WinAmp 2.91
WinAmp... Its just cool (winamp.com)

WinMX
Useful for all those music/vid downloads (winmx.com)

WinZip
WinZip 8.1, the most widely used Zip tool (winzip.com)

WMP 9
Microsofts latest Windows Media Player, and its great ;-)


If I didnt list the URL, search google for it :-)

Cheers


Chilling_Silence
Chilling_Silently (228)
138857 2003-04-26 03:50:00 try this out for programs
www.larp.ca
E.ric (351)
138858 2003-04-26 05:34:00 here's some that I use on my XP... It's all freeware!

Wallpaper Changer for changing the desktop pic at any interval here (http://www.wallpaperchanger.de/)

Diskeeper lite for quick defragging here (www.diskeeper.com)

JV16 (been mentioned before) here (www.vtoy.fi)

MRU blaster for cleaning recently added files to menus all over the place here (www.wilderssecurity.com)

Empty temp folders, for that and other cleaning duties here (www.danish-shareware.dk)

Prefetch clean and control, for that here (www.jester2k.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk) (whole heap of other downloads at this site)

bootvis, speedup startup here (www.microsoft.com)

start up delayer for starting progs after the essentials have loaded

dll archive for storing unused dll's to save space [url=http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/system/dllarch.htm]here (]here[/url)

unfrag to clean up office space waste here (www.keyscreen.com(s)8/unfrag.htm)

O&O defrag to get the sometimes missed (by diskeeper and the xp defragger) fragmented files here (www.oosoft.de) takes as long as the xp one!

speedload to help progs load faster here (www.angelfire.com)

multicrack to get rid of a few silly box q's (such as do you really want to connect to the internet?) here (www.netcult.ch)

drTCP for hidden internet speed settings here (www.dslreports.com)

dcenhance for fixing bland pics quickly here (www.mediachance.com)

regpeg for reducing the size (kb's) of pics here (www.morpheussoftware.net)

cdcheck to fix broken cd's here (www.elpros.si)

drive rescue to recover deleted/corrupt files here (skyscraper.fortunecity.com)

convert to find values of a heap of different things here (www.joshmadison.com)

scanner to see where all my space is being used up here (www.steffengerlach.de)

IEspell for checking spelling anywhere like on this page... here (www.iespell.com)

startup for easily deciding what to start up ..or not here (www.mlin.net)

myIE for easy tabbed internetting with no popups and behind loading of links on pages here (www.ruihehang.com)


not too hard to put all tose links in with notepad another great MS product... butI think that'll do... all the usual stuff too!
Trev0 (1995)
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