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[Recommend On!] OS reinstalled, need good free apps.
Rius
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Globex CEONobody ever says ItalyRegistered User regular
Yesterday I nuked my C:\ drive and started afresh for the nth time. Windows XP SP2 is my OS, and I've installed AVG Antivirus, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and Spybot S&D. Recommend me some cool free apps that you think are either a necessity or a godsend or both 
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Steam, Firefox with Adblock Plus, utorrent, media player classic, foxit reader.
Infra Recorder if you dont have Nero or some such burning app.
FFDShow for all your codec needs.
WinRar's free version is fully functional for zipping/unzipping, just pesters you to register but never makes you.
CCleaner is a good reg/system cleanup utility to suplement your A/V & Spybot programs.
SysInternals apps can be handy to the right people. Process Explorer is great for troubleshooting. Desktops is fucking awesome.
OpenOffice, if you have no copy of MS Office.
VLC is a multiformat, small footprint media player that can eliminate having to gunk your system up with Quicktime and/or RealPlayer.
Google Earth 5.0 is pretty fucking amazing.
Actually any recommendations I give here will probably be things from the Desktop Thread in Moes Tech Tavern. All just things to make your desktop prettier.
Rainmeter/Rainlander - Cool on screen graphics/network monitoring/calender/to do lists/tons of other stuff
RocketDock/RK Launcher/ObjectDock - Apple-esque launch bar docks
Make sure you have actually scheduled antivirus scans. You have no idea how many people just rely on the active scanning of their A/V and actually have viruses they don't know about.
7-zip speaks RAR and is freeware
FireFox 3.5 comes out tomorrow
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
What if you like being part of a botnet because you're a few dozen hotfixes behind?
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Hotfixes are for pussies.
Real men run unpatched NT4 with a public IP.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
Salmon'd for dirty, dirty lies.
Hey. I didn't say use them. But they are good to have on the computer when it does get deemed necessary.
Pidgin - lightweight IM client.
Thunderbird and its calendar addon - great mail client if you don't use gmail.
Steam/PSN/XBL/Minecraft / LoL / - Benevicious | WoW - Duckwood - Rajhek
As to the above, I was under the impression that at the very least, IE8 was not worse than IE7, which puts it light years ahead of IE6.
Yeah I am pretty sure the comments related to my recommendation where because they were Microsoft products and therefore could be avoided. But in the end you might as well have them and there better then the WMP9 and IE6 crap that's preinstalled anyways.