Software for new laptop

motorguy

https://www.filehippo.com is a handy place to find all the free stuff you'll need.

Bollotom

Additional for freebies is Gizmo's at:-)

http://www.techsupportalert.com/

fenlander_uk

mutley74 wrote: »

laptop will mainly be used for internet, word etc., not gaming.

i use Easeus todo for pc backup at present. Macrium is only free for 30 days.
IT supervisor at last company recommended Tune up utilities for a slow pc and for pc optimisation.

Not so. Here.

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mutley74 wrote: »

Macrium is only free for 30 days.

IT supervisor at last company recommended Tune up utilities for a slow pc and for pc optimisation.

There is a free version of macrium as above.

Tune up software of any kind is bloat.

jayme1

I install antivirus first then run Windows Update, Firefox (including any addons eg. Flash) and Chrome next, finally 7-Zip and VLC . And that's it, I then install software only as needed.

Email: I use the webmail which in pretty much all cases is better than a client, I use Chrome and stay signed in all the time, it will even give you pop ups for new mail if you use Gmail.

Since you also say you need word processing I would also install LibreOffice from the start.