What programs do you install in your system?

[AkumaX]

what do you deem "important" or necessary, or essential when installing your computer?

ex.:

office xp
trillian
acrobat reader
photoshop
nero 5.5
norton antivirus 2003

 

[Chaotic42]

Photoshop 5
Bryce 4
Trillian, I guess

Along with games and stuff. I won't list all of the linux programs.

 

[PoPPeR]

kazaa, winamp 2, ms office, mirc, aim, nero, winrar

 

[amdskip]

quicktime, flash (the free one for browsers) for surfing sites that require it and what everyone else listed

 

[Ryan]

Office XP
Paint Shop Pro
Quake
Dreamweaver
Serious Sam
Kazaa
EZCD Creator
WMP9

 

[MeanMeosh]

hmm, lets see...

acrobat reader
aim 4.8
aim+
photoshop
office xp
nero 5.5
bulletproof ftp
mirc
divx 5.0 codec
powerdvd
kazaa lite
ad-aware
pcphone
quicktime
winrar
sisoft sandra
3dmark
PuTTY
WinSCP2

edit: how could i forget... winamp 2.8

 

[notfred]

perl

 

[yoda291]

On any given system:
Opera

Then it branches:
windows:
photoshop
qcd
indigoperl
dreamweaver
vim
flash
ultraedit -32 (yes, I realize that's a total of 3 different ways to code html not including notepad).
mirc
Illustrator

Nix:
Apache
nmap
xmms
samba
gimp
XF86 + icewm
crackloads of pms
dillo
abiword

all I can think of off top of my head.

 

[chocobaR]

Illustrator
Flash MX
Counter-Strike
Winamp
Word
FTP Expert

 

[brentman]

Office XP
Photoshop
EditPlus 2
ACDSee
mIRC
AIM
Kazaa
Cisco VPN Client
WinZip
Winamp
WSFTP

And of course, my alarm clock program I wrote.

 

[Zugzwang152]

"important" or "necessary"? nothing, i don't do anything important on my machines 😉 except a browser to nef.

 

[dullard]

When I set up my computers, work computers, or friends/family computers this is what I generally will install:

Some version of Microsoft Office (if they don't have it I'll install free Office viewers),
Acrobat reader,
WinZip,
McAfee VirusScan (not the best, but when it is free who's complaining),
Whatever their current email program is (Netscape Messenger, Outlook, Eudora, etc) since I refuse to teach them a new one,
And every single Windows update and more importantly Office updates since I know they will never update the computer again.

Everything else I install depends dramatically on the person.

 

[n0cmonkey]

screen
irssi
tac (tcl 8.3 req)

 

[CraigRT]

Nero 5.5
QCD player
Smart FTP
Office XP
ICQ
Irfanview
Direct Connect
WinRAR
CDex
Sygate
SETI
Opera 7

I have more... those are pretty much just the imperative ones.

 

[JetBlack69]

Distributed Folding!!!

 

[dman]

Hmm, most already covered I think, but in general:


Crazy Browser
Trillian
Office 2K (don't care for XP) w/ SP1..2..3
SmartSuite
IrfanView
PSP v7.x
DUMETER
NSW200x (for A/V)
Winamp
WinZip
EZCD 5.x.x.x (latest patch)
Acrobat 5.x
WMP (later-est version)
BestCrypt
OS Patches, Updates, ServicePacks, etc.
Sometimes RealPlayer (but I usually hold off onthat until I get stuck needing it).

Someone did a useful page a whileback from one of these type threads, here it is:



There are others that I use but the above are essential.

L i n k (Thanks to whomever put this together, it's helped me numerous times when I try to remember the name or website of that program I just can't find)