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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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| 138843 | 2003-04-25 09:09:00 | OK, we have had the Essential Applications ( . pcworld . co . nz/thread . jsp?forum=1&thread=33941&message=153026" target="_blank">pressf1 . pcworld . co . nz) survey, time now for the Necessary or Useful Applications . :-) List as many as you like as long as they are apps that you use reasonably regularly . It will be good to make a FAQ out of the results so once again please give a few details of what the app does and an idea of how much it costs if possible . Please do not post the same apps that you already listed in the Essential Apps thread . A few of mine are: Spybot - scans, detects and removes spyware nasties . Free . AdAware - scans, detects and removes spyware nasties - complements Spybot . Free . RegCleaner - registry cleaner and jv16 Power Tools repair tool . Free . Outpost - firewall - used to use before Kerio . Free . WinAmp 280 - another audio player for when I feel like a change from FooBar . :D Free . MailWasher - delete your spam before it hits your Inbox- don't really need it but it is handy for the Hotmail account . Free . TweakUI for Win XP - handy for tweaking without climbing into the Registry . CDex - CD ripper to compile a collection of music to play with FooBar on the PC . CD Wave Editor - used this nice little program to record music tapes . Really easy to record whole tape at once then split into separate tracks . Shareware (forgotten price) . RenameIt - renames lots of files at once . Handy for songs and/or graphics (digital pics) . PushPin - keeps a window on top where you need it . Free . Acrobat Reader - to read all those manuals and . pdf documents . Free . Norton Ghost - sounds like a good idea but have not yet got it working on the Win 98 PC . Give me time . . . . :p :D MS Office Small Business Edition - for my work . MS Money - good for keeping track of my PC savings budget . :D Nero - CD burning app, very easy to use . Came with my CD writer . KazaaLite - P2P file sharing program . That will do for now . Let's see what others have . :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 138844 | 2003-04-25 09:16:00 | Dear Susan B I think I have the ability to see into the future with the aid of my computer, I am sure I saw this posting last week, do you think we might be able to go the right lotto balls that pop down tomorrow? From Eric |
E.ric (351) | ||
| 138845 | 2003-04-25 09:41:00 | Hello SusanB . For another view of essentials (freeware) see www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=8800348 |
TonyF (246) | ||
| 138846 | 2003-04-25 10:08:00 | > I think I have the ability to see into the future with the aid of my computer, I am sure I saw this posting last week, do you think we might be able to go the right lotto balls that pop down tomorrow? Bugger . I got the heading wrong . It was supposed to be Useful Applications, not Essential Apps because like you say we had that last week . This one is supposed to be for the ones that we install at our leisure, not immediately after a reformat . And you can list as many as you like . :-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 138847 | 2003-04-25 10:18:00 | Winace - the only reliable, easy to use archive manager with support for almost all archive formats. Trillian - goodbye MSN, ICQ, YIM, AIM, IRC - Trillian handles the lot in about 1/10th of the RAM Flashget - download resumer Opera - no more pop-ups and other MSIE related junk and security breaches, and the pleasure of tabbed browsing. Where Is It? - media management, stores directory and file structures of Archives, CD-Roms, Music CD's, Hard Drives in one program, allowing you to virtually navigate through your media without inserting and re-inserting discs to find what you're looking for. VisualRoute Visual Traceroute tool for identifying network faults, retrieving whois information for domains etc. Bound to have more... |
whiskeytangofoxtrot (438) | ||
| 138848 | 2003-04-25 10:55:00 | Hmmm useful applications ... Powertools for XP- this includes TweakUI for XP (free) SiSoftware Utilities- this is for benchmarking and system information (free) ASUS Utility - Probe v2.19.00 - For hardware monitoring (came with mobo) Swat it - trojan scanner (free) and this one I think just comes under the useful category .... Morrowind - The Elder Scrolls - excellent game, all 623MB's of it residing on the hard drive Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 138849 | 2003-04-25 11:25:00 | leisure ... after the essential one?? no order winamp 2.9 adaptec 4.02e easy cd, direct cd ver: unknown power dvd xp 4 couter strike ms flight sim 2002 pro ma train sim mcafee v6.20 update for v6 and scan engine updates tweak ui CDex win media player 9 ms messenger winMX - best!! adobe illustrator (2nd last ver) adobe pagemaker (2nd last ver) |
rayonline (2134) | ||
| 138850 | 2003-04-25 12:19:00 | OK, useful applications: Most of my favourites have already been mentioned here, but some others are; End it all: Look on Google for this.. fantastic program to close all running applications before doing a scan or defrag, so they run & finish alright. clip cache: this & some others you can find on Google, allow you to save multiple clips to the clipboard, compared with the MS clip that only allows one clip. |
Bazza (407) | ||
| 138851 | 2003-04-25 12:26:00 | internet explorer 6 - web browsing outlook express 6 - email windows messenger 4.7 - instant messenging windows media player - music microsoft office xp - word processing works suite 2003/encarta 2003- word processing/research nero burning rom 5 - cd burning download accelerator - download management winzip - expanding/condensing files divx player 2.1 - movie watching counterstrike - addictive online game age of empires 2: conquerors - another good game |
Craig (448) | ||
| 138852 | 2003-04-25 12:28:00 | :( yes counterstrike is a good game but i hate it at the moment because i just finished downloading a 120mb update for it, & it turns out its the wrong one!!! | Craig (448) | ||
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