Posted November 9, 2006 Add Prevex1. http://www.prevex.com It's a one month free trial, but after that it still finds stuff for you, so you just need to delete it manually. It will seriously clean up your PC if there is shite on it. (By the way, Firefox does not know the word shite...) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 25, 2006 for us mac users i recomend a program called quicksilver (like spotlight only better) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted December 22, 2006 Opening pdf files usually take pretty long if you're using adobe's reader. Even with a reasonably powerful PC. I found this alternative: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php It opens pdf's a lot faster than adobe reader. I recommend replacing it with this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted January 29, 2007 if you want to overwrite rather than just delete data, get eraser: http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/ or if you've deleted something by mistake and want to recover it: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,23108-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted April 12, 2007 You should add this: http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/ It's a neat little program which checks if there are any updates for the programs you have currently installed, and then gives you a link to download them from. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted April 12, 2007 You should add this: http://www.filehippo.com/updatechecker/ It's a neat little program which checks if there are any updates for the programs you have currently installed, and then gives you a link to download them from. That seems really cool. Cheers! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 9, 2007 Back to the sticky-ness it goes! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 20, 2007 I downloaded Auslogics Disk Defragger yesterday, and it's brilliant! It's speedy and does a fantastic job of sorting your hard drive. I definitely recommend this. http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php It took just under 1 hour to defrag my 120gb IDE hard drive, which only had 13gb free before defragging. After running the program I had 20gb free! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 20, 2007 gonna give it a go now, the disk defragger in vista is shite! how did they actually make it worse than the one in previous versions of windows? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 12, 2008 Wasn't sure where to put this but here goes. Firefox 3 beta 4 is fucking awesome on the mac! <3 It's as fast as firefox used to be, has some really good features which are actually useful and looks like an OS X app rather than a lame windows app circa 1999. The updated Safari 3 will have to come out soon else Firefox will replace it as my default browser. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 12, 2008 Foobar2000 owns all the media players up there for music btw. for us mac users i recomend a program called quicksilver (like spotlight only better) Pc users Launchy is the alternative for us, its not as feature filled as quicksilver but its getting there Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 16, 2008 great topic, cheers. My norton recently ran ut so using a zone alarm, AVG, Spybot, CCleaner combo now =) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 16, 2008 I can also recommend TweakUI It gives you a lot of options to costumize WindowsXP in terms of settings. Edit: it seems thirtynine. beat me to Launchy four days ago. Still here's my post. And Launchy is a little programm running in the background. It indexes all the Start Menu Shortcuts and other folders and filetypes you specify. With a press of Alt+Space it the Launchy Searchwindow comes up and lets you type in the program name. By pressing enter the program launches. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted March 21, 2008 not a lot to say about this one. Stickies/Post Its is something the macs had for years. Its free, indie and only 1mb. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted April 7, 2009 essential programs When I get a new computer, what programs I need to put on it: Standard apps (browser, e-mail, office, etc.) Firefox Thunderbird OpenOffice Trillian BlitzIn Development tools (programming languages, text editors, version control) Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP EditPlus (Crimson Editor, ConTEXT, and PSPad are also good alternatives) jEdit (and a bunch of its plugins) metapad (and replaced notepad with it) Subversion and TortoiseSVN MySQL plus the administrator and query browser KDiff3 Proggy Fonts (Proggy Tiny) The Regex Coach Cygwin Improved Windows Console (still early in development, but promising) WitchEd Network tools (protocols) Ethereal Putty FileZilla WinSCP VNC Viewers Irfanview and all plugins (XnView and The Gimp can also be handy) 7-Zip (I also have to try ICEOWS) Acrobat Reader µTorrent OpenOffice downloaded in < 3:45 (!) with it. iTunes, then uninstall the associated QuickTime, and install the Mega Codec Pack to replace it. The K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, which includes Real Alternative, QuickTime Alternative, and The Divx codec. The Ghostscript tools for viewing PostScript on Windows, particularly Ghostscript and GSView. See Obtaining Ghostscript, click through and you'll be able to download both Ghostscript and GSView. Operating system enhancements/utilities CLCL TaskSwitchXP XP Powertoys, particularly "Open Command Window Here" and "Tweak UI". Free Launch Bar. Some of the Sysinternals tools when I have a need for them. Spacemonger when I later need to figure out what's eating up my space Spybot and AdAware, eventually. SlickRun is an excellent command-line style program launcher Here are some automation utilities that may come in handy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted April 7, 2009 The original post is old now, but to go over the points and clarify: Adware/Spyware Removers Spybot Search & Destroy - http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Anti-virus Avast! Home Free Edition - http://www.avast.com AVG Free - http://free.avg.com/ Media Players/Codecs CCCP - http://www.cccp-project.net/ VLC - http://www.videolan.org Real Alternative Lite - http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative_Lite.htm Quicktime Alternative Lite - http://www.free-codecs.com/download/QT_Lite.htm Internet Browsers Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/firefox Opera - http://www.opera.com Archive utility Winrar - http://www.rarlabs.com 7-zip - http://www.7-zip.org App launching: Launchy (oh how I love you launchy) - http://www.launchy.net/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted August 18, 2010 I find that the ultimate anti spyware solution is : http://www.malwarebytes.org Try it and see for yourself. No malware / spyware is safe with this running Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
