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What are *must have* applications and programs for the PC?

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DeadAIMv4.0 and AIM
Agent
Winamp2, cause winamp3 sucks, really, it does.
WinRar
Nero 6 Ultra Edition
Ad-Aware 6
NAV 2003
CloneCD
Classic Media Player
Google Toolbar version 2.0 (thank you for the pop-up blocker)
Opera
PowerDVD
MS Office XP Professional w/ Frontpage
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Warcraft III Expansion Set: The Frozen Throne
Diablo
Diablo: Hellfire
Diablo II
Diablo II Expansion Set: Lord of Destruction
Quake III Arena
Final Fantasy VIII (8)
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Pilsnerpete
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I have a Windows XP unattended install CD (Well, it's grown to the point that it's a bootable DVD) that installs and configures all this stuff without my input

Windows (Duh)
DVD Decrypter
DVDFab
Photoshop
Office 2000
CloneCD
Nero 5.5.9.9
WinRAR
DivX
mIRC
Winamp 2.9
Mozilla Thunderbird (Mail client)
ISOBuster
FlashFXP
Windows Media Player 9
Detonator 40.87 or somthing like that
RealAlternative (RealPlayer player that isn't nearly as homosexual)
PowerStrip (My monitor is at the end - I need the PStrip gamma boost or I can't see anything)
AIM
Yahoo Messenger
StyleXP and several themes
WinDVD
PowerDVD
Pinnacle Studio 8
TIConnect for interfacing teh calculat0rz
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You win! How do you make it install all that? Sheesh! I was happy with myslef when I made a bootable slipstreamed cd.
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Actually, I forgot that I also have a ton of WinXP hotfixes on there.

There are actually tools on the CD. Cleverly hidden tools. They're meant for OEMs and businesses to mass-deploy. As for how, it's pretty simple. At first, I just reinstalled Windows, installed all the goodies, set everything how I liked it and dumped the registry and copied the installed files to the Windows CD, and set it up to copy those files to their appropriate destination and to restore the registry dump.

Then comes the REAL fun part - adding stuff later. A lot of small programs (And the hotfixes) have silent install options (You usually have to bug the DEVs about it though to find out what the command line option is) that you can just use straight off - put the installer on the CD and set it up to run it with the appropriate commandline.

Or, failing that, or with a large program like Office, you have to take a registry dump before, install it, take a registry dump after, compare the two, find the differences, and export the changes to another registry file, and then just set it up like you did initially - to copy the files and load it into the registry.

A DVD burner is a must if you intend to do it on this grand scale, however, and the learning curve is hellaciously high - expect to spend a LOT more time for the first 6 months or so than you could possibly save even if you were reformatting daily. Why did I do it? I don't mind farting around doing things that I don't have to, but I ABSOLUTELY FREAKING HATE reinstalling shat.
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can't you just dump the registry file.. and then use ghost to create an image of it?
 
Or, failing that, or with a large program like Office, you have to take a registry dump before, install it, take a registry dump after, compare the two, find the differences, and export the changes to another registry file, and then just set it up like you did initially - to copy the files and load it into the registry.
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That sounds like something I'd like to spend a week on. Oh wait...no. :clock: 😀
 
My XP setup. I keep it simple

Office Xp Pro with Frontpage and Publisher
Illustrator 9
Photoshop 6
Acrobat 5
Alien Skin 4 and Xenoflex 1
Bryce 4
Nero 6
Real One player enterprise edition
V Tuner 4
Creative audio stream recorder
Norton Interntet Security 03
Seti
MS links 03
Ages of Mythology
Rise of Nations

The only thing I am interested in adding is Dreamweaver MX and yes my copies of Illustrator, Photoshop and Bryce are paid for at full retail price. Too old for school and academic software discounts.
 
Media Player Classic, its not wmp6.4 but a much much much much much muchmuchm better player, nothing can beat it
Winamp 2.91
Crazy Browser, who doesnt want tabbed IE along with lots of other great features
 
OS (Win 2k for me)
All required drivers obviously
ZoneAlarm
AVG
Winamp
Media Player (Older version, hate the new one)
MSN Messenger
File sharing shoftware (Kazaa currently)
Photoshop
HP Photo Suite (Came with printer, excellent for digi photos and printing)

Thats the must have's. Then a buttload of games 😀
 
besides the really common ones

kerio firewall
some ftp client
paintshop pro
ultraedit
partition magic
nero
ms office

then a bunch of programming stuff like visual studio + msdn, jdk, borland 5.5 command line compiler and dreamweaver
 
Nero
Partition Magic
Zone Alarm
Winamp 2
mIRC
Mozilla
Statbar
Alcohol 120%
Winbond hardware monitor (mobo's software)
Adobe Acrobat reader
Word
Windows
WinRAR
Winzip
Leechget
Kazaa Lite
A plethora of games.
All the usual drivers etc.
 
WinXP
Nero 5.5 (6.0 looks awful but I've not personally tried it)
UltimateZip
IrfanView
LeechFTP
Thunderbird
Firebird
AudaCity (bit like CoolEdit but free!)
Winamp 2.91
Regcleaner (the one included in JV16 power tools)
Trillian
FileZilla
DreamweaverMX
Spybot S&D
Norton AV 2003
PostIT Notes 🙂
Deamon Tools
Mame
DC++
MS Office

Prolly more but its early and I'm having a bad day...
 
...In Linux ...
BitchX
Eggdrop
Vi
nmap
Samba
Proftpd
Apache
IPtables
Openoffice.Org
Mozilla Firebird
The Gimp
top
Postgresql (though I imagine I would survive If I switched to Mysql)


.. In Windows..
Winamp
Agent
Photoshop
Winrar
Various Codecs
EAC
Winzip
Winace
Nero
PowerDVD
Mozilla Firebird
FlashFXP
Adaware
Notepad
SecureCRT (though any SSH client would do)
WMP
ACDSee

Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
Command and Conquer Generals

these are the 2 games I'm playin the most currently ... So I stuck em on the list
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: Pilsnerpete
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I have a Windows XP unattended install CD (Well, it's grown to the point that it's a bootable DVD) that installs and configures all this stuff without my input

Windows (Duh)
DVD Decrypter
DVDFab
Photoshop
Office 2000
CloneCD
Nero 5.5.9.9
WinRAR
DivX
mIRC
Winamp 2.9
Mozilla Thunderbird (Mail client)
ISOBuster
FlashFXP
Windows Media Player 9
Detonator 40.87 or somthing like that
RealAlternative (RealPlayer player that isn't nearly as homosexual)
PowerStrip (My monitor is at the end - I need the PStrip gamma boost or I can't see anything)
AIM
Yahoo Messenger
StyleXP and several themes
WinDVD
PowerDVD
Pinnacle Studio 8
TIConnect for interfacing teh calculat0rz
Click to expand...
You win! How do you make it install all that? Sheesh! I was happy with myslef when I made a bootable slipstreamed cd.
Click to expand...

Actually, I forgot that I also have a ton of WinXP hotfixes on there.

There are actually tools on the CD. Cleverly hidden tools. They're meant for OEMs and businesses to mass-deploy. As for how, it's pretty simple. At first, I just reinstalled Windows, installed all the goodies, set everything how I liked it and dumped the registry and copied the installed files to the Windows CD, and set it up to copy those files to their appropriate destination and to restore the registry dump.

Then comes the REAL fun part - adding stuff later. A lot of small programs (And the hotfixes) have silent install options (You usually have to bug the DEVs about it though to find out what the command line option is) that you can just use straight off - put the installer on the CD and set it up to run it with the appropriate commandline.

Or, failing that, or with a large program like Office, you have to take a registry dump before, install it, take a registry dump after, compare the two, find the differences, and export the changes to another registry file, and then just set it up like you did initially - to copy the files and load it into the registry.

A DVD burner is a must if you intend to do it on this grand scale, however, and the learning curve is hellaciously high - expect to spend a LOT more time for the first 6 months or so than you could possibly save even if you were reformatting daily. Why did I do it? I don't mind farting around doing things that I don't have to, but I ABSOLUTELY FREAKING HATE reinstalling shat.
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Why not just install everything and then ghost the whole drive?

 
why dont some of you douches go back and edit your posts and explain what some of those lesser known programs DO?

THANKS.
 
Originally posted by: Ciber
<Quote Chain removed>
Why not just install everything and then ghost the whole drive?
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Probably because if he decided to change the hardware, then Windows would fail to boot up. However having a standard Windows install CD with these extras will allow it to be installed on any computer, and have all those programs set up.


Confused
 
Originally posted by: Broohaha
why dont some of you douches go back and edit your posts and explain what some of those lesser known programs DO?

THANKS.
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Why don't you go to google and find out for youself 😛
 
If someone would make a *.iso of all the updates for windows xp I would seriously consider selling my soul to you 😀
 
Browsing: IE6 (or any other)
Real Time Chat: Trillian Pro
Music Playing: Winamp 2x
Music Ripping: CDec (or other popular rippers)
Newsgroups: Grabit
FTP: BPFTP, BPFTPServer
File Sharing: Waste
Editing Graphics: Photoshop
Viewing Graphics: ACDSee32 / WinXP Builtin Viewer
Data Entry: MS Office
Finding Games: Gamespy / All Seeing Eye
Archiving: Power Archiver
Playing DVDs: PowerDVD XP
Playing Compressed Video: Zoomplayer / Necessary Codecs
Pop-up Removal: GoogleBar
Spam Removal: Mailwasher
Spyware Removal: Ad-aware / Spybot
Virus Removal: Norton / Innoculate IT / Others
Image Mounting: Daemon Tools
Image Extracting: Can't remember name of program 🙁
Image Writing: Nero
 
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