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Do you need stuff? OF COURSE YOU NEED STUFF!!

NOTE: The things that are listed here are not in any order!

Windows:

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Google Chrome!

An amazingly fast browser, wayyyyyyy better than IE!

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Ninite

One-click installer for every program that you need!

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Open Office

Just like Microsoft Office but free!

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RSSOwl

One of the best RSS feed readers out there

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Juice

The BEST podcast listening program

X-CHAT 2

X-Chat 2

Amazingly awesome IRC chat client

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KeePass

Stores all of your passwords in one place

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TrueCrypt

Convert a memory stick into a strongly encrypted data storage device

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FreeMind

Enables you to brainstorm and link together ideas quickly

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Workrave

Prevents from working too much and causing repetitive stress injury

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CPU-Z

Monitor every aspect of your CPU!

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HWMonitor

Monitor every aspect of your WHOLE computer!

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GPU-Z

Monitor every aspect of your GPU!

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FooBar2000

BEST music player EVER!

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CCleaner

Number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC

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Teamviewer

Remote control any computer

 

 

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Hirens BootCD

Every SINGLE tool that you will ever need!

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Firefox has more extensions, better adblock and isn't owned by a bunch of creepy stalkers. :D

 

You also forgot Foobar2000, Blender and monitoring software like Realtemp and CPU-Z/GPU-Z.

 

On a real note, those are some nice picks.

 

 

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CCleaner

MSI Afterburner

Firefox

Teamviewer.

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Well...

AOMEI Backupper

Best free backup program ever imo.

DNS Benchmark

Benchmarks DNS'. Sounds useless, but can be useful depending on where you live and who your ISP is.

Crystal Disk Info

Best HDD info program imo.

 

Speccy

Huge potential in a program for listing System specs. Even lists your Windows Key used to activate your OS. Pretty great.
 

Please tell me you are going to organize this into Sections with Spoilers once those are fixed... 

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Thanks, i am sure a lot of people will find this of use

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Firefox has more extensions, better adblock and isn't owned by a bunch of creepy stalkers. :D

 

You also forgot Foobar2000, Blender and monitoring software like Realtemp and CPU-Z/GPU-Z.

Can't believe I forgot firefox....

 

CCleaner

MSI Afterburner

Firefox

Teamviewer.

I am adding them! WAAITTTT

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hmmm...I'll think about it :3

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firefox is better than chrome :P

 

 

 

let the war begin!!!

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Can't believe I forgot firefox....

 

I am adding them! WAAITTTT

Browser is personal preference. As long as you're not using internet explorer, you can't really go THAT wrong.

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There is Steam. Can't forget Steam. Gyazo is also nice for quick screenshots minus the "ninja" thing. Audacity is another free program I've used many times.

 

 

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Open Office is crap.

 

Kingsoft Free Office is the best free one out. It's basically a clone of MSoft Office.

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firefox is better than chrome :P

 

 

 

let the war begin!!!

yes let it begin cause tbh chrome is easy to install no admin rights are needed and i can use it on my college computers :) compared to firefox

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@megadarkwood Thanks for this man, I use the majority of the ones you suggested anyway, thanks for putting the effort into the list though. Oh and nice to see the Lamarr GIFs holding up strong :)

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Browser is personal preference. As long as you're not using internet explorer, you can't really go THAT wrong.

Google Chrome get's glitchy more often, I've never used firefox but I'll give it a go. 

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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LibreOffice http://www.libreoffice.org/

Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

▶ Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Einstein◀

Please remember to mark a thread as solved if your issue has been fixed, it helps other who may stumble across the thread at a later point in time.

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Google Chrome get's glitchy more often, I've never used firefox but I'll give it a go. 

"THAT" wrong. It works msot of the time, though personally I switched back to Firefox because Chrome is a Ram Hog.

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SOMEBODY was bored.

But anyway, you forgot some programs:

Foobar2000

MPC-HC

Paint.net

Steam

Deluge

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"THAT" wrong. It works msot of the time, though personally I switched back to Firefox because Chrome is a Ram Hog.

Yeah the struggle was real when I only had 1024MB of RAM and chrome used 800MB of it...

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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I wanna add some;

  • 7-zip
  • Cpu-ID
  • HWiNFO
  • Daemon Tools Lite for mounting iso
  • ISO to USB
  • Media Player Classic, or any of its equivalant
  • PDF-Exchange
  • Fraps
  • CrystalDisk Info
  • Windows Live Mail

;)

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I wanna add some;

  • 7-zip
  • Cpu-ID
  • HWiNFO
  • Daemon Tools Lite for mounting iso
  • ISO to USB
  • Media Player Classic, or any of its equivalant
  • PDF-Exchange
  • Fraps
  • CrystalDisk Info
  • Windows Live Mail

;)

 

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I wanna add some;

  • 7-zip
  • Cpu-ID
  • HWiNFO
  • Daemon Tools Lite for mounting iso
  • ISO to USB
  • Media Player Classic, or any of its equivalant
  • PDF-Exchange
  • Fraps
  • CrystalDisk Info
  • Windows Live Mail

;)

Beat you to those.

Oh, Overwolf. I got it with Teamspeak, and tbh, I like it 100x better than FRAPS. Like, it's sooooo much better.

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"THAT" wrong. It works msot of the time, though personally I switched back to Firefox because Chrome is a Ram Hog.

Bloody goddamn ^this. For the past few years I was using Chromium (on Arch Linux),

but after having been annoyed with its memory consumption for a long time (seriously,

WTF is up with that?! It's a goddamn browser, I'm not editing a 30 megapixel image

in Photoshop!), I got pushed over the edge recently (some ridiculous new ad feature

broke Youtube for me) and switched to Firefox.

As somebody who easily has 50 tabs or more open at a time (basically, I use open

tabs instead of bookmarks, at least to some extent :D ), I have also been extremely

happy about the fact that there are vertical tabs extensions for Firefox (never could

find one of those for Chromium). Plus it's just less buggy and works more nicely

overall (yeah, I know, Chromium ain't Chrome, and maybe Chrome works better, don't

know for sure).

As a bonus, I have found that extensions for downloading Youtube and other flash vids

also work better, which I'd guess might have something to do with the fact that Chromium

is the child of Youtube's overlords, who are probably not too pleased about people

permanently storing YT vids on their machines. :rolleyes:

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Vitalius, on 13 Dec 2013 - 06:39 AM, said:

Beat you to those.

Oh, Overwolf. I got it with Teamspeak, and tbh, I like it 100x better than FRAPS. Like, it's sooooo much better.

 

Aaah yes..I totally missed that one. I just went through all in my start menu. HWMonitor is also another alternative for HWiNFO,but a simpler one.

 

Spacesniffer - This one is awesome if you want to see how much storage you've used in your drives.

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I can't find the DL link for Hiren's BootCD. There is a list, but not a link. I presume there's just a bundle download, as it says "All in One Bootable CD which has all these utilities" which implies that there is one... ? :L

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