Software Set Up

Just wondering what is your software set up, What programs do you need and what for

Utorrent (downloading)
Windows Media Player (Playing music and Videos)
Firewall (Keep the nasties out)
AV (Kill Viruses)
Ccleaner (Clean My registry)

Thats it really I dont do much else on my pc

So what about you

[Nikesh]

Microsoft Office (Work)
Virtual DJ (Music)
Windows Live OneCare (Security)

That's it really. Vista comes with a lot of programs, so don't really need to install many other programs.

[Halcyon]

- XP as my OS

- Microsoft Word for work.

- Ableton Live, Propellorhead Reason, and various VST's for music.

- Photoshop & Dreamweaver for design.

- Firefox, Thunderbird for Internet and Email.

- Nod32 Antivirus.

Downloading - via Giganews using Grabit (NZB files from Newzbin)

Media - VLC player for music, DivX & x264; PowerDVD ultra for DVD; Media Center for TV.

AV/Firewall - ZoneAlarm Security Suite supplemented by a-squared free for spyware checks.

Registry cleaner - jv16 Power Tools, Registry Mechanic

E-mail - Windows Live Mail & Gmail

Office - Open Office version 3 Beta

Disk burning - Nero 8

Internet - Firefox

Media file conversions - DVDFab Platinum, ConvertX to DVD

File viewer - Irfanview

Ping, Trace etc - Sam Spade

Print over network - Network Magic

Archives - Alzip & QuickPar

Backup & Disk Management - Paragon HDM suite 2008

Pleased to say that all are either free or fully paid for/bundled versions.

[Axegrinder]

OS - XP Home SP3

Downloading - utorrent

Media - WMP11 and VLC player.

AV/Firewall - Windows firewall / Avast Antivirus

Anti Spyware - Spybot S&D.

Registry cleaner - ccleaner's plus ntregopt for compressing

E-mail - Windows live mail.

Office - MS Office 03

Disk burning - Nero 6 ultra

Internet - Firefox 2.0.0.14

Ping, Trace etc - Bog standard Command prompt

Backup & Disk Management - Acronis TrueImage 11

[Alien]

OS: XP 64
Security: Comodo Firewall, Kaspersky Antivirus, Blocklist Manager, Proxomitron, DNSKong, Spybot Search & Destroy, & RegexBuddy for helping me work out Regular Expressions for advert & spam filtering
Browsing: Firefox & Maxthon
Email: Thunderbird
Spam: Mailwasher
Text editors: EditPadLite, PSPad
Office: OpenOffice
Image viewing/editing/creating: MS picture & fax viewer, Paint Shop Pro 7 & 9 [I tend to use 7 mostly as just an image viewer], & Caligari trueSpace 7.5
For making/keeping notes of stuff: Evernote
Downloading: Obit Downloader & Azureus
Audio: Winamp
Video: Media Player Classic
Compression: ALZip, TugZip, 7-Zip
& various other stuff including: RocketDock, DigiGuide, Speedfan, PDF-XChange PDF Viewer, GetDiz, EULAlyzer, AveDesk, KompoZer, NetMeter, TreeSize, CCleaner, UltraMon.

[Druchii]

My home machine-
OS: Windows XP Pro SP2
Downloading: µTorrent and Orbit Downloader, occasionally DownThemAll!
Security: Comodo Firewall, SpyWareBlaster, Avast, Hardware Firewall
Browsing: Firefox 2 and IE6 (rarely).
Email: -
Text Editing: Notepad and Notepad++
Office Work: MS Office inc Visio and Project
Imaging: Photoshop CS2, Paint.
Audio: Winamp and MEdia Player Classic with K-Lite codec pack
Video: Media Player Classic and occasionally Nero Showtime
Compression: 7Zip, WinRAR
Utilites: Ccleaner, Defraggler
Burning: Winodws Default for CD's, and Nero 7 for DVDs
Transcoding: WinAVI for Video, Xilisoft Audio Encoder for Audio.
Calendar: Mozilla Sunbird

And that about wraps it up

[r00t]

OS: zenwalk.
Browser - Opera.
Mail - Opera.
Downloading- utorrent, using wine.
Messaging-IRC etc.. Terminal
Firewall- IP tables.
Antivirus- Non.

[Steve-o||[^]]

OS: XP Pro SP2
Browsing + Communication: Firefox 2, Thunderbird 2, Live Messenger, mIRC, X-lite, PuTTY Suite
Security Utils: McAfee VirusScan, TrueCrypt, Eraser, GnuPG
Working Utils: Office 2003, Notepad++, Dia, TortoiseSVN
General Utils: CCleaner, PerfectDisk, Acronis True Image Echo, WinRAR, CuteFTP Pro
Media: Media Player 11, PowerDVD, Quicktime Alternative
Gaming: Steam, HLSW, bunch of others