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What Can't Your Computer Live Without

Started by tcoffeep, Oct 18 2008 10:28 AM

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#1 OFFLINE   tcoffeep

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Posted 18 October 2008 - 10:28 AM

I'm sorry if this has been made before, but I couldn't find one, ('cept for the Freeware one, but this is not freeware-exclusive). This is just a cheap way for me to find new programs ^_^

My list :
CCleaner
CounterStrike 2D - Fun, free, and time-consuming, need I say more? -
Defraggler
Firefox Portable 3.0.3 - With My Usual Addons -
Foxit - Portable edition -
MBAM
MUSHClient 4.37 - IMHO, the best MUD/MUSH client available -
Pidgin Portable
VLC Media Player Portable 0.94
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Fantasy is the celebration of what we no longer are: individuals certain of our meaningfulness in a meaningful world. The wish-fulfillment that distinguishes fantasy from other genres is not to be the all-conquering hero, but to live in a meaningful world. The fact that such worlds are enchanted worlds, worlds steeped in magic, simply demonstrates the severity of our contemporary crisis.
Scott R. Bakker, Why Fantasy and Why Now?

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 01:37 AM

Sandboxie, Returnil, Firefox with needed addons and Ghost Images - security/backup.

Agent Ransack, Parts of Office 03, Palmail, MWSnap, Spider Player, Winrar, Perfectdisk, Partition Magic, CCleaner, Burnaware, Send To Toys and maybe a couple of others I can't think of atm.

The above are for my XP installs with most being used on my Vista installs as well.

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 02:10 AM

nLite/vLite - number one must have (for me)
WPI - possibly number two must have
CCleaner
Firefox
Gimp
ImgBurn
OpenOffice.org
Orbit Downloader
SFXMaker
SumatraPDF
Vista Codec Pack
XnView
Zoom Player

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 02:23 AM

Microsoft Office '03 (self-explanatory)
K-lite Mega Codec
MediaCoder
Yahoo Messenger (for chatting with friends/officemates/classmates/etc and for sending/receiving files in a snap)
Adobe Reader 9 Lite
Firefox
Orbit Downloader
Nero
PowerArchiver
Kaspersky Anti-virus (for killing my bro's accidental minions)
Adobe Photoshop CS3 (required for making some banners)
And lastly... games. My desktop would simply be a boring box of silicon without it.

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 07:26 AM

View PostTunerz, on Oct 19 2008, 02:23 AM, said:

Microsoft Office '03 (self-explanatory)
K-lite Mega Codec
MediaCoder
Yahoo Messenger (for chatting with friends/officemates/classmates/etc and for sending/receiving files in a snap)
Adobe Reader 9 Lite
Firefox
Orbit Downloader
Nero
PowerArchiver
Kaspersky Anti-virus (for killing my bro's accidental minions)
Adobe Photoshop CS3 (required for making some banners)
And lastly... games. My desktop would simply be a boring box of silicon without it.


which games?
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Fantasy is the celebration of what we no longer are: individuals certain of our meaningfulness in a meaningful world. The wish-fulfillment that distinguishes fantasy from other genres is not to be the all-conquering hero, but to live in a meaningful world. The fact that such worlds are enchanted worlds, worlds steeped in magic, simply demonstrates the severity of our contemporary crisis.
Scott R. Bakker, Why Fantasy and Why Now?

RPG Codex - Putting the 'Role' back in RPG.
The Age of Decadence - A game everyone should look forward to.

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Posted 19 October 2008 - 09:42 PM

CCleaner!
Defraggler!
Recuva!
3D Color Changer
7-zip (used to be TugZip until updates started slowing)
Photoshop CS3
Advanced Process Termination
Audacity
Autoruns
Calcute
Launchy
CLCL
cygwin
Daemon Tools lite
DefaultBrowser (to make firefox portable default)
DScaler
Dshutdown
DTaskManager
eMule
Firefox 3 portable
foobar2k
xpize Darkside
Super turbo tango patcher
foxit reader
frostwire
GIMP
GMER
Gspot
Karen's hasher
karen's time sync
hdhacker
hexplorer
hijackthis
hostsman and hostsserver
imagine
imgburn
inkscape
currports with ipnetinfo
keepass
k-lite mega+MPC+QT Alt
M$ Office '07 (only need and use Word, love the ribbon)
Nettools
network stumbler
notepad++
numerimal
ollydbg
opendfilesview
packetmon
Phun
pidgin
process explorer & monitor
processtamer
release and renew batch file
replacer
resource hacker
sandboxie
shareaza
shellexview
smplayer
ssc service utility
superscan
supertux 1 & 0.3.1
systemexplorer
tcpview
the file splitter
total commander
nero
truecrypt
axcrypt
tweak ui
universal extractor
unlocker
µtorrent
vdubmod
clamwin
vlc
ahk volume osd script
vuescan (by far the best scanning program ever)
winmsg
wireshark
xnresourceeditorpe

I would say these are the ones I would want on a new install.
EDIT: sendtotoys, speedfan, winpatrol
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Posted 20 October 2008 - 02:06 AM

What can't my computer live without? That's easy.

Posted Image

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Posted 20 October 2008 - 09:11 AM

View PostCorona, on Oct 19 2008, 10:06 PM, said:

What can't my computer live without? That's easy.
Even with my reading glasses on that image is so fuzzy I can't read it.
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Posted 20 October 2008 - 01:24 PM

Even fuzzy it should look strangely familiar. It's an open folder of C\Windows.
My resolution is 1680 X 1050. I have to shrink it to 800 X xxx before I put in on Botophucket.

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Posted 20 October 2008 - 01:50 PM

View PostCorona, on Oct 20 2008, 09:24 AM, said:

Even fuzzy it should look strangely familiar. It's an open folder of C\Windows.
My resolution is 1680 X 1050. I have to shrink it to 800 X xxx before I put in on Botophucket.
http://www.imagespeech.com/index.php supports 1024x768
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Posted 20 October 2008 - 07:36 PM

I've tried other hosts before and I don't care for them.

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Posted 21 October 2008 - 04:41 AM

View Posttcoffeep, on Oct 19 2008, 03:26 PM, said:

which games?
Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne
Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars with Kane's Wrath expansion
GetAmped Philippines
MU Online Philippines (only my brother plays this)
WarRock
.... and other games that will be installed after we upgrade our aged desktop.

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Posted 22 October 2008 - 04:59 AM

Foobar 2000
Aimp2 player
GOM player
KM player
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Posted 22 October 2008 - 08:33 AM

n/m. It was, indeed, rude of me. Thanks, Davey. -_- I need that kind of point out every now and then.
QUOTE
Fantasy is the celebration of what we no longer are: individuals certain of our meaningfulness in a meaningful world. The wish-fulfillment that distinguishes fantasy from other genres is not to be the all-conquering hero, but to live in a meaningful world. The fact that such worlds are enchanted worlds, worlds steeped in magic, simply demonstrates the severity of our contemporary crisis.
Scott R. Bakker, Why Fantasy and Why Now?

RPG Codex - Putting the 'Role' back in RPG.
The Age of Decadence - A game everyone should look forward to.
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