What are everyone's essentials?

[Pegun]

When you're building or using a computer for an extended amount of time, what are your essential programs that are needed for even basic functionality?

Mine:
Winrar
Winamp
VLC
Trillian
VMware Workstation
Display fusion

 

[jlee]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=33&threadid=2166494

 

[ManyBeers]

Seamonkey
Clipomatic
Skype
Winamp
Glass2K

 

[DnetMHZ]

I'm pretty boring these days, not much I can't do with just a browser.

 

[ggnl]

a media player
P2P software
itunes (for managing ipod)
web browser

 

[Billyzeke]

women, wine, and song



oops I just read the message title

 

[lifeobry]

Firefox
CCCP+MPC-HC
Irfanview
7zip
Foxit reader
Winamp+Foobar+MediaMonkey

 

[esun]

foobar2000
7zip
Pidgin
Daemon Tools Lite
Firefox
Thunderbird
Cygwin (for ssh and LaTeX mostly)
VLC
Foxit
CutePDF Writer

 

[meltdown75]

Napster
iTunes
RealPlayer

 

[JulesMaximus]

Firefox
Office
iTunes
Bitdefender

 

[Crono]

OpenOffice
VLC and MPC + ffdshow
WinRar
Firefox + Flash
WinAmp or foobar
GIMP
FoxIt or Acrobat
PowerToys (pretty much all)
CDBurnerXp
dbPowerAmp
AntiVir
Comodo
Spyware Doctor (Google Tools Pack version)
Daemon Tools
VirtualDubMod (old school, but it works)
Audacity

 

[acheron]

for windoze machines, Firefox is about it as far as truly essential, I guess, since that's all that's common between my home and work computers. Other programs I install right away on my home computer after an OS wipe or something are foxit, winrar, pidgin, itunes, etc., but none of those are on my current laptop at work.

for *nix machines, I've for some reason accustomed myself to the text editor Joe, so I always grab that first. I can use vi if someone forces me, but I'd really rather not.

 

[TwiceOver]

Ubuntu +
Amarok
Various FF Plugins

Hrm. I think that is all I ever really add.

 

[Away]

A clean install of Ubuntu

 

[DrawninwarD]

Firefox
uTorrent

 

[KeithTalent]

Firefox
VLC
Whatever software I need to sync my MP3 player of the time.

KT

 

[meltdown75]

dammit. troll attempts don't work in threads like these 🙁

 

[Drako]

This thread makes me sad.

I remember when computers were used to get actual work done 🙂.

 

[lifeobry]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
dammit. troll attempts don't work in threads like these 🙁

It was too obvious.

 

[amdhunter]

Kazaa
Limewire
Bearshare
Bittorrent
Vista Antivirus 2009
Comet Cursor
Smiley Central Icons

etc.

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: Drako
This thread makes me sad.

I remember when computers were used to get actual work done 🙂.

Oh yeah, I forgot:

Office (Microsoft or OpenOffice)
Steam

KT

 

[racolvin]

hookers, blow, a roll of 100's, a bottle of Cristal, and a Macbook Pro? 🙂

 

[lxskllr]

Foobar
Firefox
Thunderbird
Foxit
uTorrent
Antivir
Virtualbox
VLC
OpenOffice
Pidgin
Paint.net
UT2k4 :^)

Edit:
I forgot a couple...

7Zip
InfraRecorder
Excal32

 

[PepePeru]

cccp
avira
firefox + extensions
utorrent
steam
open office

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Drako
This thread makes me sad.

I remember when computers were used to get actual work done 🙂.

sounds like most are posting their personal puter essentials. for my work system, its a bit long and proprietary.

rockwell software (4 programming versions, 3 different types of graphics editors)
modicon software (3 programming types, 2 graphic editors)
wonderware software (2 graphics types)
office package
utilities to keep me online in remote areas
autocad
management software for accounting/ job management
sync for my phone
vm for server link
acrobat

and many support drivers/ utilities for the work programs.


i use the same laptop for home and work use, so this is all available at home too