What should I install on a new computer?

[nan0bug]

Originally posted by: crazygal
Great, thanks guys.
XP's built in unzip program works fine so I don't need winrar or winzip.
He doesn't need ZA (won't be online much and he doesn't know how to use it).
The startup program is nice, but he'll just use msconfig.

I got Acrobat Reader on there. I found a good popup stopper too.
Have winamp, downloaded AdAware 6. Good call on the CDex.

Does XP come with WMP 9? Where can I download all the codecs for that?
Anything else? Thanks so far!

WinXP's unzip program doesn't work as well as winrar or handle even close to all the types of archive files that winrar does. More and more people are using RAR files everyday, to not have the capability to decompress them when installing it will take 30 seconds max is stupid imho.

 

[crazygal]

Ok then, winrar makes the cut.