What to put on, or keep off new laptop

swvillafan

Sowilo wrote: »

Another piece of stuff cluttering up the hard drive and running in the background. Clever. :rotfl:

You're right, it is clever!

CPJames19

Apps I have installled on my windows 7 laptop:
7-zip - for opening zip files,
Microsoft Office 2007,
DriverMax - to keep my drivers up to date (can download 2 updated drivers a day on free account)
KMPlayer - for watching movies and listening to music
Avira (very good antivirus app with very good detection rate)
Malwarebytes & SuperAntiSpyware
Firefox with a few addons including avg linkscanner, personal menu (hides firefox menu), downthemall (free download manager), adblock plus (hides ads from websites and itv player ) etc
CCleaner - keep computer clean
Auslogics disk defrag - better than windows defragger
DriveImage XML - create image of system
Trying out Nitro pdf
Also installed ubcd4win so I could create ultimate boot cd incase my pc or anyone else went wrong

Sowilo_2

swvillafan wrote: »

You're right, it is clever!

But are you? NO :T

bengalknights

mine just has ms office,kaspersky,firefox and vmware player installed with a 2nd windows in vmware having any crappy software that i hardly use installed on it.

01001011

I use my mini-notebook as my main computer so I have quite a lot of softwares installed.

Security:
Avast Anti-virus
Comodo firewall
Malewarebyte
Hijack this

File utility:
Smart defrag
CCleaner
TUG Zip (decompression)
Free OTFE (file encryption)

Word processor:
Open Office
LaTeX
Adobe reader 6

Web browser:
FireFox w/ no-script and leech block

Image processing:
IrfanView
Photoshop 7

Entertainment:
Media player classic + some codecs
Foobar 2000 (Music player)
Several games

Others:
UK Kalender (calender)
A computer star chart

Though only the Avast, Comodo and Kalender run in the background.