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Thread ID: 110150 2010-06-05 08:38:00 What do you install when you redo your HD? Nomad (952) PC World Chat
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1107081 2010-06-05 08:38:00 I just redid my HD. For a bit of fun, I thought what do you install at the start.

Apart from drivers and updates, mine are:
Windows.
Office.
Adobe Lightroom (photography)
Arobat
Anti Virus
Download Accel.
Mailwasher.
Nomad (952)
1107082 2010-06-05 08:48:00 Off the top of my head, I'd install:


Windows
Office
Firefox
Thunderbird
Microsoft Security Essentials
Google Talk
Windows Live Messenger
Pidgin + Facebook chat addon
Tweetdeck
Paint.NET
VLC
CCleaner
ImgBurn
Visual Basic.NET
Garfield Desktop Comic :D
F.lux


A long list! :p
pcuser42 (130)
1107083 2010-06-05 08:53:00 I start with a gentoo stage 3 tarball, recompile everything in it for my CPU, and then install the following*:
Latest zen (*not* the same thing as xen) kernel
reiserfsprogs
A syslog daemon
A cron daemon
screen
vim
mutt
irssi
gentoolkit
eix
layman
lvm 2
bridge-utils
iptables
sipcalc
xorg
nvidia-drivers
nvidia-settings
gvim
kde4
gkrellm
wireshark
opera
firefox
chromium
aria2c
pidgin
calibre
amarok
digikam
gimp
lyx
openoffice
uclibc cross toolchain

Everything else gets installed on an as-needed basis when I run into a situation that requires it.

*Note that there may be a few items missing from that list - normally I'm better at remembering what I install when I actually do it. I don't redo my main system that often, as Linux isn't self-breaking the way Windows seems to be.
Erayd (23)
1107084 2010-06-05 09:27:00 Not much. Windows, the updates, ccleaner, poweriso, Skype, the drivers / program for the tuner, Winzip, FF, and Office if I can be bothered reinstalling it, Mirc, Itunes if I can be bothered reinstalling it, PEN (an email notifier program), CDburnerXP Speedy Gonzales (78)
1107085 2010-06-05 10:17:00 I just redid my HD. For a bit of fun, I thought what do you install at the start.


The Operating System
Twelvevolts (5457)
1107086 2010-06-05 10:20:00 The Operating System

:lol:
KarameaDave (15222)
1107087 2010-06-05 10:52:00 The Operating System

Which is why Windows is at the start of my list :p

(The rest are in no particular order.)
pcuser42 (130)
1107088 2010-06-05 10:57:00 Thanks for clarifying that. Twelvevolts (5457)
1107089 2010-06-05 11:00:00 Not Linux then, pcuserwinvista? :D KarameaDave (15222)
1107090 2010-06-05 11:06:00 Drivers aside....
:A
Windows
Adobe Design Premium CS5 < So much better than CS4
Office
uTorrent (to re d/l most of my apps again
Chrome
Flash
VLC
50+ Various lumps of software that make up my life
Then I accumulate rubbish and slow my PC down over a year or so untill it was exactly like it was when i bought it. (shiny new and full of craplets)

:Go to A
The Error Guy (14052)
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