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Let's say that you just got your new gaming PC, you booted and everything went fine. You have your graphics drivers installed and is now going to browse for programs that you will use, what programs do you choose to install and why do you install them?

 

Reasoning behind this is that I just restored my computer and is looking for neccesary programs, virus programs etc.

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  1. Chrome

Steam

WhatPulse (nice tracker)

Skype

Audacity

Handbrake

Putty SSH client

VNC Viewer

Movie Maker (I know)

Antivirus?

PDANet+ Desktop (because I tether sometimes)

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Malwarebytes because i dont like evil little viruses

CCcleaner no need for all them cookies

Spotify cuz i love music

Google chrome, i cant stand explorer or firefox.

 

Rest comes with time i guess. ;)

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Let's say that you just got your new gaming PC, you booted and everything went fine. You have your graphics drivers installed and is now going to browse for programs that you will use, what programs do you choose to install and why do you install them?

 

Reasoning behind this is that I just restored my computer and is looking for neccesary programs, virus programs etc.

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Chrome, Gimp and Steam

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I install whatever comes to mind first since it's much faster to layer as many installs as possible. 

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Updates

Steam

Chrome

iTunes

MS Office

Photoshop

Games

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firefox

chrome

flux

Steam

teamspeak

Origin

skype

dropbox

google drive

blender

photoshop cs6

illustrator cs6

inkspace

gimp

3dsmax 2015

maya 2015

mumble

teamviewer

ventrillo

 

 

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Steam

Battle.net

Firefox

Spotify

GIMP

Skype

Open office

MSI afterburner

VLC

Team viewer

Winrar

Speccy

Recuva

Avast

Super anti spyware

Malwarebytes

Ccleaner

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  1. Chrome

AVG Antivirus

Steam

Origin

VLC Media Player

BitTorrent

Google Drive

DVDVideosoft Free Studio

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  1. Nvidia Display Driver 
  2. Mcafee and malware bytes 
  3. Intel Chipset
  4. network Driver
  5. Chrome 
  6. steam
  7. CC cleaner 
  8. IDM
  9. MPC-HC Klite codec
  10. Uplay
  11. Winrar
  12. Picasa
  13. Msi afterurner
  14. Adobe acrobat reader
  15. quicktime for browser plugins 
  16. WD smartware 
  17. Razer comms 
  18. Samsung magician software 
  19. realtek wirelss driver 

and then games at last 

Exactly in that oarder 

 

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Updates

Eset Nod32

Firefox

Spotify

Skype

Winamp

Steam

CCleaner

Gimp

7Zip

Rainmeter

Teamviewer

NZXT Cam

MSI Live Update

 

Just recently upgraded to Haswell-E, and these are the first things I installed :P

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This only applies to my desktop. After i've run all the Windows updates:

 

Start8 (With Windows 8)

Geforce Experience

Chrome Canary

Waterfox

Adobe Flash

Silverlight

Skype

CCleaner

7-zip

VLC 64-bit

Filezilla

Putty

Notepad++

Sharky007 codecs

Foxit Reader

mIRC (or some IRC client)

Spotify

Steam

Origin

battle.net

Dropbox

mumble/ts3

Adobe CS6

Sony Vegas

Fruity Loops Studio

Audacity

 

Because I use a lot of 64-bit app builds now ive stopped using Ninite and just install things individually.

Looking forward to seeing more on the Windows 10 package manager.

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This will help you a lot https://ninite.com/

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Alright thanks everyone :P

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gnome Child.

 

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  • Firefox
DropboxSkype and OneDrive (if the PC isn't running Windows 8.1)VLCTeamViewer7-ZipSteamDAEMON Tools LiteuTorrent, for downloading Linux distos of course.

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Let's say that you just got your new gaming PC, you booted and everything went fine. You have your graphics drivers installed and is now going to browse for programs that you will use, what programs do you choose to install and why do you install them?

 

Reasoning behind this is that I just restored my computer and is looking for neccesary programs, virus programs etc.

 

look up ninite.com

select and download what you want

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Windows Updates

Google Chrome

Nvidia Drivers

Other drivers if necessary

Antivirus

Then I usually wait until I need something to install it (because I'm lazy like that). 

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1 Opera

2 Chrome

3 Steam

4 CPU-Z/GPU-Z/Afterburner/Benchmarking stuff

5 Office

 

Optional: If Windows 8, Classic Shell. 

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