15 03 2008

What to install on XP to make it fully functional?

Posted by: jason in windows applications
  1. MS Office 2003 (or Open Office.org) as office suite
  2. NotePad++ (with the Vibrant Ink style) for text file editing
  3. Thunderbird for my email
    1. English Australian spell check anddictionary
  4. FireFox for my web browsing, and some extensions:
    1. Adblock Plus blocks web adverts
    2. English Australian spell check and dictionary
    3. Bug Me Not bypasses compulsory web registration
    4. IE Tab renders web pages with IE in Firefox tabs. You’ll have to use an older version if you aren’t using Firefox 3 – beta versions available here
    5. Adobe Flash Player
    6. Java Runtime Environment
    7. Add to Search Bar to allow any pages’ search functionality from the Search Bar
  5. DVD Shrink for backing up DVD’s
  6. Royale Noir XP Theme
  7. XP Service Pack 3
  8. Set up auto logon via Start -> Run -> control userpasswords2
  9. Nvidia Forceware v93.71 video card driver
  10. WinRAR compress and decompress files
  11. Adobe Acrobat 7
  12. ScanGear driver for my Canon scanner
  13. Hamrick VueScan a great scanner tool
  14. Canon S800 printer drivers
  15. MySQL on my Ubuntu server to host my wiki
  16. Mediwiki on my Ubuntu server
  17. Slysoft’s Virtual Clone Drive for mounting disc images
  18. UIF to ISO converter
  19. FileZilla FTP client
  20. MS IIS 5.1 web server
  21. Change background colour from blue to dark dark grey (16 26 38)
  22. PokerStars client. I am “jasomenaso”
  23. Tortoise SVN (Subversion) version control client
  24. Nero 7 Essentials
    • Disable ‘Nero Scout’ to avoid “WMS Idle” errors on shut down
    • Disable ‘InCD’ crapware
  25. AVG Anti-virus tool
  26. Picassa for basic image management
  27. Fireworks, Illustrator or Inkscape for vector image creation/editing
  28. MusicBrainz Picard for tagging music files
  29. Skype for VOIP
  30. MediaCoder for easy transcoding of media file formats. (ie wma to mp3)

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