PC aplications

[Zep]

Just wondering what stuff you guys use in case i'm missing something cool.

I'm using Zone Alarm Pro for firewall
Norton 2004 anti-virus
Window Blinds 4.4 for coolnessness, good if you have the RAM
Cacheman 5.5 (I think it does stuff but I can't tell)
Daemon Tools
Media Player 10
Ad-Aware (which is DA BOMB, I reckon windows needs this built in)
Nero Burning Rom
Any Password (thanks Class, wicked program)

I don't think I'm going to install Firefox... web most web sites say they are best viewed with IE.

Any other programs you guys reccomend?

[were]

firebox is ok i jsut wish the adrdress box could eb larger(no choice in using it..see general banter for details)

i use norton 2003 cause my xp hates 2004

get ad aware se professional(and ad-watch)..very very nice to have

dvd encryptor..easist way to burn bin/iso (but i have nero anyway to burn dvd movies)

winamp(fast loading mp3's)

alcohol 120 (for obvious reasons)

azerus(for pvp but the upate files is corrupted?)

meaning to get cacheman..did wondrs on my win98se

[adidas]

I don't think I'm going to install Firefox... web most web sites say they are best viewed with IE.

That's complete BS. I don't use IE EVER except for Windows Update. I don't visit one site that Firefox doesn't make more enjoyable. I think anyone who doesn't give it a decent shot is really missing out. (I wouldn't try it at first either, but have been using it for a year or two now.)

My must have apps with descriptions where necessary:

Tag&Rename: Tags and renames music files with very little work (I handle 50 GB worth of albums with this)

Alcohol 120%

Foobar2000: Faster and uses less memory than Winamp

FlashFXP

AnyDVD: Decrypt DVDs on the fly

TorrentSpy: Look at a torrent's contents without having to write the files to your HDD, also see seeder/leecher stats

Firefox

Nero

dbPoweramp: convert music files from one format to another

ckRename: rename massive amounts of files

WinRAR

[were]

an impressive music hdd

[Zep]

::puts tag+rename on shopping list::

[Zep]

just installed firefox 1.0 and I have to admit it does seem "cleaner" than IE. It's fast and easy to use, gets the thumbs up from me.

[adidas]

Make sure you check out the extensions. Go to tools>extensions>get more

and check out some of the descriptions. There are some really good ones available, and adblock is pretty much a necessity (maybe it's installed by default in 1.0, not sure)

[release]

adblock is pretty much a necessity (maybe it's installed by default in 1.0, not sure)

nope - it isn't installed by default in 1.0.

here's my adblock filter list - stops pretty much all advertising banners etc :
http://www.users.on.net/~release/progs/adblock.filters.24-Nov-2004.txt

[release]

TightVNC
Directory Opus 8
Netmeter
Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15
Kaspersky AV
Executive Software Diskeeper
MS Baseline Security Analyzer
WinRar
7-Zip
Nero 6.6.6.0
Jedit
Ghostscript + GSView
DSClock
CDex
EAC (just to generate the cue files)
FLAC
FLAC Frontend by speek

Mozilla Firefox 1.0
Extensions
spiderzilla
Adblock
Add Bookmark Here
BugMeNot
Dict
Bandwidth Tester
DownloadWith
ieview
Super DragAndGo
googlebar
Tabbrowser Extensions
Bookmark Backup
Configuration Mania

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9
Extensions
Calendar

emule 0.44d
WackGet
FlashFXP Scene Ed
Mozbackup
Adaware SE
Spy Sweeper
Azureus
mIrc

[were]

uhmm..thats alot.

my sweeper said it expired..despite the serial key..wtf?

[Class316]

Yea Any Password is nice, I have put in even more passwords (some older ones I remembered and some newly created ones) since my post about it.

Here's some stuff I have:

Securtiy:

Norton Anti Virus
Adware SE
Spyware Blaster (prevent spyware from installing)
Peer Guardian

Chat programs:

mIRC
Yahoo Messanger
Skype
ICQ
MSN
Trillian
Paltalk

Of these I barely use any besides the first 2

CD/DVD stuff:

Nero
Alcohol 120% (if there's something Nero can't do)
DVDFAB (quickest and most relaxing way to copy DVDs)

Media viewing:

Windows Media Player
Power DVD
Winamp
QCD Player
ACDsee

Media Editing:

Windows Movie Maker
WinAVI (quickest and most relaxing way to convert movie formats)
Cool Edit Pro

Downloading programs:

ABC
Ares
Flash Get Download
LeapFTP

Compression:

Winzip
WinRAR
7-zip

Office:

Word
Excell
Front Page

Other:

Any Password
ckrename
more I'm sure

[were]

manage to get it to work for sweeper...like the ext said..u need to edit install.dat and add a few zeroes (3).Now mine wont expire until the next menellium.(3000 to be precise)