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Essential Software for a Fresh Windows 7 Install

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A long time ago I wrote a list of software I always ended up installing on Windows XP. This is a revised list of what I use on my Windows 7 installation.

Internet

  • Google Chrome – I usually run the dev channel which is mostly stable for everyday use.
  • Firefox 4+

Development

Utilities

Office

Backup

  • Jungledisk for bulk image storage on Amazon S3
  • Dropbox for sharing smaller files among different computers

Multimedia

  • VLC
  • Wimp (norwegian service for audio streaming, a lot like Spotify)
  • FFDShow (adds codecs to Windows Media Player)
  • Picasa as image library

Omissions

I did not list a pdf viewer as I usually download the pdfs with Chrome and use the builtin viewer.

Trouble with Torrents (uTorrent) on Windows Vista with McAfee

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My mother recently bought a shiny new dell with Windows Vista on it. I recently got my fingers on it, and it’s pretty darn alright. But I had one problem:
starting uTorrent was causing the system to slow down and also drop http traffic…

After consulting a friend we found out he had the same problem some months ago. The solution was simple: uninstall mcafee.

So I uninstalled mcafee, and now my linux iso download is blazing. :-)

Btw, you REALLY SHOULD install some other AV after uninstalling mcafee. I’ve been pleased with Avast which is free. Also I’ve heard good words about AVG, Avira and Nod32 (this is one of the best, but payware).

Essential Software for a Fresh Windows XP Install

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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

Development

Surfing/Net

Only one(I use GMail, Reader and Calendar from Google for other net stuff.)

General purpose

Multimedia

More suggestions?