As a personal reminder, and possibly helpful for other people, I’d thought I’d post what software I spend hours installing after hours of installing Windows XP.
Security
- Spybot S&D – Cleans out spy and malware
- Avast! Anti virus – Free, and good(?)
- Avira Anti virus – Free, and good(?). Has a annoying screen popping up each time it updates though.
Development
- Eclipse – My IDE of choice, for Java at least.
- VIM – easy, slick text editor.
- PuTTY – SSH/Telnet connectivity.
- Java – of course.
- TortoiseSVN – Subversion client integrated in Windows shell
- ArgoUML – Open Source UML diagram editor, can also generate code skeletons
Surfing/Net
Only one(I use GMail, Reader and Calendar from Google for other net stuff.)
General purpose
- WinSCP – SSH/SCP file transfer.
- 7-Zip – Open Source file (de)compressor.
- WinRAR – file (de)compressor, I still use although 7-Zip takes them all..
- Launchy – cool utility that lets you launch apps. by keystrokes.
- SyncToy – A nice, and free, utility from Microsoft that let you do backups/syncs of files and folder. E.g. between disks.
Multimedia
- VLC – Open Source multimedia player, plays most formats.
- foobar2000 – Free and simple mp3/aac/ogg/etc player with low low mem. usage
More suggestions?
Nice!
What kind of PHP editor do you use?
VIM mostly. I’ve tried the PDT plugin for Eclipse, but’s nowhere done.
ADblock plugin for Firefox
Oh, and Gmail notifier =)
very practical
I’d add the KMPlayer as an alternative to vlc.
It’s got all the codecs, looks much nicer, has LOADS of settings and options and still runs smoothly. :)
As AV, I use AVG(pretty adequate).. Documents using Open office, some testing and bench marking tools (open source), Flashget as download manager, codecs using klite, Notepad++.
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Have you left out a document reader…PDF etc..???? Or have I missed something
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@John Foxit is a good alternative for PDF reader (unless they’ve changed radically since I used XP)
I’d add Adobe Reader, Flash, Shockwave. I also switched from Firefox to the much slimmer Chrome. Haven’t missed it.
Also suggest Microsoft Security Essentials. It has gotten pretty good.