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    Essential Programs - Free or otherwise - list your favourites

    As it's coming up to new year, it's time to clear out all of those trial and no longer used programs we've tried over the year. get rid of junk on the hard drive and start the new year with a clean(ish) system.

    What I've thought of is listing your favourite programs(free or otherwise) that you could not be without.

    I'll start with my antivirus:

    Avast - free, updates a zillion times a week and good at what it does. AVG is also free and a good program.
    I do know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem.

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    C(rap)Cleaner and Ad-aware get my vote, both indispensable and get used a hell of a lot.

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    ZD Starup Manager.
    Speedfan.
    Spybot - Search & Destroy.
    Yahoo Messenger.
    Media Player Classic.

    All nice and free

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    Lavasoft's AntiSpyware

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    hmmm... defo my EvilLyrics, winamp, SOF2 Minimizer, google deskstop ....:

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    VLC, WinRar and HideOE (Minimize Outlook Express to the tray)

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    GAIM, best instant messenger in the world, handles what seems like hundreds of differnt protocols

    the Gimp, best image editor in the world, its free, and better than psp or photoshop.

    Inkscape, vector image program, for sketching

    open office, does everything that M$ office does, for free

    7zip, a excellent compression program that has the best compression ratios (better than, rar, etc)

    uh, i think thats it for now...

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    Nobody's mentioned Firefox! Heathens ah tells thee

    also worthy of a mention;

    ATI Tray Tools
    Free Download Manager
    Zip Genius
    VLC Media Player

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    Nod32
    Zonealarm Free
    Spybot S&d
    Ad-aware

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    NOD32
    Winrar
    Windows Powertools (notably resize tool and Tweak UI)
    Firefox
    GAIM
    Teamspeak
    OpenOffice
    Spybot
    Adaware
    Xoftspy
    X²
    CrystalXP
    Rivatuner
    ATI Tool
    Zone Alarm Pro
    FRAPS
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    I would not survive without FF, Tbird, Opera (just for Quidco), NOD32, Word, Excel, Photoshop, Nikon Capture, Cool Edit Pro, Nero 7 ........ in fact, I don't have any software installed right now that I don't use at least once a week !!
    Cheers, David



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    Ah yes of course

    Counter Strike: Source
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    Quote Originally Posted by hexah
    Games are developed by teams of talented people and sometimes electronic arts

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