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| Thread ID: 67286 | 2006-03-23 12:19:00 | Useful programs to download | aidanmaz (7180) | Press F1 |
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| 440161 | 2006-03-23 12:19:00 | i recently got a brand new pc, and i want to downloads some cool but useful programs, i got IE 7 beta 2 which i think is cool, is there any visual enhancemens that would make XP look really cool, the luna theme just doesnt do it for me | aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 440162 | 2006-03-23 16:35:00 | Get TWEAKUI ( . microsoft . com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys . mspx" target="_blank">www . microsoft . com) for fun . . . it includes a lot of enhancements that you'll like . IMHO, I set the following stuff up in my systems: I really like Picassa II ( . google . com/) . . . a great photo processor and folder-maker . . . it uses HELLO (http://www . hello . com/" target="_blank">picasa . google . com/) . . . a great photo processor and folder-maker . . . it uses HELLO (http:) by Picassa and has a blogger and can send pixs via most any format you want using your e-mailer or whatever . I use Gmail, Google Desktop Search, GTalk and FireFox (just get the whole Mozilla Suite ( . mozilla . org/products/mozilla1 . x/" target="_blank">www . mozilla . org)) . . . . stay away from Internet Explorer like the plague . Delete Windows Messenger . Install a good firewall (Windows Defender is pretty good) and remember that you can use only one software type, and one hardware type; I use AVG Free, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware (not Adware!), SpywareBlaster and Belarc Adviser, CrapCleaner, Hijackthis, MBSA (Microsoft's Baseline Security Adviser) . Make sure that when you click on anything that it IS what you want and not some clone of it . There are a lot of look-alikes out there that want you to be fooled into adding them to your system and cause you all sorts of havoc . I also run SITEADVISER (http://www . siteadvisor . com/), which is a FireFox extension for assistance in browsing . Keep your updates and HotFixes all up to date . . . . . ya gotta have SP-2 . . . not an option! Stay away from Bonzi Buddy, The Weatherbug, anything porn, be ye very aware of most Yahoo stuff, AOL is a system sucker and burrows deep into the bowels of your machine and McAfee, Norton (Symantec) is really a poor anti-anything . . . not that they don't work, they just also suck the life outta your system . . . . . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 440163 | 2006-03-23 21:45:00 | http://www.7-zip.org/ (a zip program. Can do many differnt compression formats) http://www.irfanview.com/ (nice small image editor) notepad-plus.sourceforge.net (more powerful notepad, and has tabs) http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ (I use this instead of MSN.) www.videolan.org (media player. Can emulate dvd regions) http://www.bzflag.org/ (a game with simple graphics, but i find it addicting) http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/ (for comparing files and merging changes) keepass.sourceforge.net (stores your password safely, so you dont need to remember them) http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ (ftp client) sector7g.wurzel6.de (pdf creator) http://www.openoffice.org (very nice microsoft office replacement) http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ (quite a powerful image editor) These are all free. And clean of nasties. |
mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 440164 | 2006-03-23 22:38:00 | Another you might like is Ewido: www.ewido.net especially if you like Internet Exploder......jk ;) |
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