essential software and programs for a new pc.

[frostyshuggah]

so im getting my new pc in a few days, it cost me 1600$ and i was wondering what software and programs should i install. (free or paid). any useful and handy program, best anti viruses, best hardware monitors, auto drivers updater ect. ect.....

ps: im sorry if this question have been answered before. if that's the case, please link me and thanks.

[AlwaysFSX]

AVG, just fixed a problem-ridden computer for me.

[Oshino Shinobu]

I personally install a good text editor (Sublime Text 3 for me), photo editing software, Fraps, GeForce Experience, GPU-Z, CPU-Z and RealTemp first.

 

EDIT: Also, maybe Aida64 or Prime95 

[Guest]

GPU-Z, CPU-Z, RealTemp, CrystalDiskInfo, CrystalDiskMark, AIDA64, Start8 (if you use Win8.1), avast and CCleaner 

[-TesseracT-]

Foobar

Bigasoft Audio Converter

Medieval .CUE Splitter

Spectro

uTorrent

^^^for music

[Thorium19]

Have a look on ninite, they've got a lot of the useful software on there which you can download.

Personally I would say get malwarebytes, realtemp, cpu-z, ccleaner and avast most likely.

[Guest]

I hope your new computer has a Shift key.

Those are pretty useful.

[Peter Vaughan Truslow]

AVG for my antivirus, StartIsBack for my start menu, HWmonitor, MS office, google chrome, (micro)torrent for downloading legal torrents like ubuntu distros, 7zip

things I install but you probably don't need: ADB and Fastboot drivers for android modding, lego Mindstorms NXT software for robotting(yes, I just verbed it.)