New Laptop - What to install? help please

froggy27_2

Bear with me as it might seem obvious to some of you but just want to check and advice.

Just bought a SAMSUNG NP350V5c ...and all seems good.
It has the Microsoft 2012 starter pack and Norton security trial month.

So could you please advise on what I should download before using it:

I have AVIVA antivirus and COMODO firewall on my old latpop. which programmes should I go with as I dont intend to pay for Norton.

Microsoft? should I buy the whole package . I will need to open documents on Powerpoint although work mainly with Words and Excel. Quite like to avoid spending more at this point...

Anything else. which anti spam/Pop up is best?

AND if anybody has got this laptop could you tell me HOW to put the intergrated Webcam on... it's probably obvious but cant find it.. When i got to Skype which i use a lot, it says the Cyber webcam is not in use ???

Many thanks in advance.

NiftyDigits

froggy27 wrote: »

Bear with me as it might seem obvious to some of you but just want to check and advice.

Just bought a SAMSUNG NP350V5c ...and all seems good.
It has the Microsoft 2012 starter pack and Norton security trial month.

So could you please advise on what I should download before using it:

I have AVIVA antivirus and COMODO firewall on my old latpop. which programmes should I go with as I dont intend to pay for Norton.

Microsoft? should I buy the whole package . I will need to open documents on Powerpoint although work mainly with Words and Excel. Quite like to avoid spending more at this point...

Anything else. which anti spam/Pop up is best?

AND if anybody has got this laptop could you tell me HOW to put the intergrated Webcam on... it's probably obvious but cant find it.. When i got to Skype which i use a lot, it says the Cyber webcam is not in use ???

Many thanks in advance.

Haven't heard of that.

GetRealBabe

Hi

I've got Avast and Comodo firewall on my desktop pc. Never had any problems.

Never tried it but this office program is suppose to be good:
http://www.libreoffice.org

What happens when you right click on the webcam icon?

bluesnake

If you do not need the full features, and only do basic typing and nothing else i'd rather go for http://www.abisource.com/ as it is much smaller than http://www.libreoffice.org both are good.

For pure text which many people do not use - notepad++
Paint.net is a must have http://www.getpaint.net/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
http://www.truecrypt.org/
http://www.7-zip.org/
malwarebytes
dropbox

somersethillbilly

Go for Foxit Reader and ditch Adobe.

froggy27_2

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Haven't heard of that.

Sorry meant to write microsoft 2010 starter pack!

epninety

Start here for a useful checklist and a brilliant automatic install tool.

https://ninite.com/

NiftyDigits

froggy27 wrote: »

Sorry meant to write microsoft 2010 starter pack!

You have a PM.

NiftyDigits

Wakey wakey!:D