Just reformatted and about to loose high speed connection, what all programs do I need to grab?

[MiniThug]

About to move back home for the summer, just reformatted my computer and am in the process of downloading all the neccecary files such as winamp, winzip, aol im, etc. Can you guys help me think of anything I might be forgetting that you cant seem to do without? Thanks

 

[Ns1]

porn

 

[GooberPHX420]

trillian, photoshop, officexp, any games you may play..

coolmon, an antivirus probably a good idea..

 

[bmacd]

divx divx divx

and don't forget to update your OS
-=bmacd=-

 

[HappyPuppy]

It's a little late, but why don't you back up all of your downloaded utilities to a CD on a regular basis so that when you do something like this you don't have to go back and download all of them again?

 

[monk3y]

If you play any games that require patches or updates... updates to any program actually.

 

[MiniThug]

ok, so far I have:

Office XP
Kazaa Lite
Antivirus prog
Zone Alarm
Yahoo Messenger
AOL IM
Nero
The weather channel program
All my drivers

Anything else that I might want to play with over the summer?

 

[MiniThug]

Oh and PowerDVD,

ya, this time I plan on saving all my utils. Would have helped when my computer decided to crash the other night

 

[Maggotry]

Check out this thread. If it ain't in there, you probably don't need it.

 

[MiniThug]

hmm cant get there, im not a subscriber, maybe I should look into that

 

[Maggotry]

<< hmm cant get there, im not a subscriber, maybe I should look into that >>


Oops. Just go to the Software Forum. It's stickied at the top.

Edit: And "YES", you should subscribe! You won't regret it.

 

[schdaddy]

winamp
winzip/winrar
adaware
mIRC
FTP app
run windowsupdate



screw
Yahoo Messenger
AOL IM

just get Trillian

 

[Maetryx]

non-subscriber version

Also, make sure to get all your game patches, and MODS, especially big ass MODS like Counter-strike, Day of Defeat, Science and Industry...

 

[Stiler]

am i one of the only people that keeps a .txt file of like all my video settings, fonts, etc and like fs/ft deals and passwords for all the sites i use? i found this to be very helpful when i have to reformat so i can remember what stuff is, etc.