[ARCHIVED THREAD] - New Computer: What Do You Install? (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 11/22/2010 1:32:39 PM EDT
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I got my new laptop connection issue fixed, and I installed antivirus software and now I'm wondering: what do people put on a new computer ASAP when they get it fired up?
Itunes, Malwarebytes, Firefox, etc.? What can't you live without? I had Firefox on my old box, but this one has IE8 and I'm going to go with that for now. |
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I always start by formatting the drive and re-installing the OS. Get rid of all of that factory installed shit.
After that, OS patches/updates, an antivirus, flash, acrobat reader, MS Office, more OS updates, Notepad++, and then whatever else is needed for that specific box. |
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE AFTER - Ninite.com I'm serious, that site is just brilliant. All the essential freeware is there, it installs it in one go, and skips all the bloatware like magic. Saves you hours. |
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE AFTER - Ninite.com I'm serious, that site is just brilliant. All the essential freeware is there, it installs it in one go, and skips all the bloatware like magic. Saves you hours. That is damned cool. Thanks. |
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The *'ed applications are the most important, the others I could live without. *VLC Transmission *******Quicksilver *Nocturne *BetterTouchTool *MacVIM Geektool iWork Then I lose most of the Apps from my dock, make it 2D, and leave it with: Finder iTunes Safari Transmission Terminal MacVIM | <stacks> Documents Applications Downloads Trash </stacks> Things I delete Most of iLife |
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7-Zip Adobe Acrobat Adobe Audition Adobe Flash Adobe Flash Media Encoder Adobe Photoshop Cisco Agent Desktop Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client Cisco Click To Call Cisco Unified CCX Developer Cisco Historical Reporting Client Cisco Real Time Monitoring Tool Cisco Supervisor Desktop Cisco IP Communicator Cisco IP-SEC VPN Client Cisco Unified WFO Quality Management Administrator Cisco Unified WFO Quality Management Desktop Cisco Unified WFO Quality Management Recording Cisco VTAdvantage Core Temp CPU-Z Cygwin EASEUS Partition Master Elaborate Bytes Virtual Clone Drive iTunes Filezilla Firefox Google Chrome Google Earth JumpList Launcher K-Lite Codec Pack Manycam Microsoft Windows Media Encoder Microsoft Office Microsoft Office Communicator Microsoft Security Essentials Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Microsoft Visio Microsoft Visual Studio Notepad++ Nusphere PhpEd Opera Pidgin Prime95 Putty Safari Skype Sony Sound Forge Studio TeamViewer Terra Term UtraVNC uTorrent Virtual Audio Cable VNC WinISO Wireshark XChat XMLSpy You Need a Budget (YNAB) With this, I can rule the world.  |
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Quoted: *snip* You Need a Budget (YNAB) With this, I can rule the world. Wow, impressive list. That last one looks really great (especially because they have an OS X version). Do you like it? Does it really help or is it gimmicky? Worth it? edit2... man this multi quote thing is hard to pull off... maybe I'm breaking the 10% rule.  <––- Vega68 |
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Quoted: Quoted: *snip* You Need a Budget (YNAB) With this, I can rule the world. Wow, impressive list. That last one looks really great (especially because they have an OS X version). Do you like it? Does it really help or is it gimmicky? Worth it? I love it like it was my own child. Seriously, I could be a spokesman for the product. Absolutely, hands down, the best personal finance software I've ever used. It works the way my mind does - and that's no small feat. Also, from a software design perspective, it's top notch. My financial life revolves around this product. I could devote an entire thread to it. I love it so. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: *snip* You Need a Budget (YNAB) With this, I can rule the world. Wow, impressive list. That last one looks really great (especially because they have an OS X version). Do you like it? Does it really help or is it gimmicky? Worth it? I love it like it was my own child. Seriously, I could be a spokesman for the product. Absolutely, hands down, the best personal finance software I've ever used. It works the way my mind does - and that's no small feat. Also, from a software design perspective, it's top notch. My financial life revolves around this product. I could devote an entire thread to it. I love it so. Do you know how it compares to something like Mint? My roommate vigorously suggested that when I mentioned budgeting software but I can't get a good feel for it unless I sign up and link my accounts to its service (huge detractor for me, I might add).  |
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You can install all the shit you want, but if you don't have a backup you are fooked.
An external hard drive and Acronis Then maybe the file with all of your firearm info and rounds shot won't be toast. 
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Quoted: You can install all the shit you want, but if you don't have a backup you are fooked. An external hard drive and Acronis Then maybe the file with all of your firearm info and rounds shot won't be toast. The backup software that comes with Windows 7 kicks ass. Bare metal restores are possible, and it takes an image while Windows is still running. For personal use, I no longer need a third-party solution. It's about time, too. |
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE AFTER - Ninite.com I'm serious, that site is just brilliant. All the essential freeware is there, it installs it in one go, and skips all the bloatware like magic. Saves you hours. Brilliant! Brilliant!! One shop stop for the excellent freebies! I've had about a quarter of those saved to a USB drive for reformats, but you always have to go back for the latest version updates. |
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I didn't wade through the whole post. I apologize if there are any duplications. Windows 7 Home 64 bit dual booted with Mint 10 64bit DVD edition. Windows 7 is the primary. Irfanview Belarc Advisor Microsoft Security Essentials Malwarebytes Lunascape 6 Firefox Stream Torrent Pandora One. Yes it's a pay service. It's worth it. Google Earth MonPwr Foxit Reader I strongly suggest you set up a Linux OS on a flash drive for emergencies. As I type this, I'm on Lucid Puppy 5.1.1 on a 4gb flash drive. I hate the way my wife set up Windoze on her laptop. When I use her computer I run the flash drive OS. I have all my settings and bookmarks saved. It uses Firefox for a browser. It does JTV and Veetle great. Puppy Linux on a 4gb flash drive looks and acts just like a big OS. I've been crashing computers for years. I guarantee you the time will come that a HD will crash and you'll need an emergency OS to get up and running. Plug in the drive, boot from USB and your good GTG. You don't even need a HD mounted in the computer. You can run the drive in any computer that can boot from USB. I don't care who you are. Murphy has set up a sleeper cell in your computer. It's best to be prepared. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58978 |
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Quoted: I always start by formatting the drive and re-installing the OS. Get rid of all of that factory installed shit. After that, OS patches/updates, an antivirus, flash, acrobat reader, MS Office, more OS updates, Notepad++, and then whatever else is needed for that specific box. This. With a laptop or other factory built system, do a complete reformat and reinstall only what you want. Otherwise, enjoy your bloatware, spyware, and adware. |
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Quoted: Linux pretty much comes with just about everything you'd need. But on top, I'd pick up Chrome, Wine, Dropbox, VLC, maybe a few others. I guess I'm starting with the assumption you didn't something as fucking stupid as installing Windows. Show me a working example of live H.264 video encoded locally in real time, and sent to a streaming server to be subsequently re-broadcasted to a few hundred viewers over the web, with no browser plugins other than maybe Flash installed. The solution must dynamically adjust the video bitrate between the encoder and the streaming server, and it must automatically resume streaming if the network connection is interrupted. I've been trying for about 4 years to pull this off on a Linux box, but maybe you'll finally be the one who can tell me how stupid I am for running Windows. |