Please post a top 10, top 20 or top 25. It can be software that you´re impressed with, or that you use a lot for example. I recently bought a new Win 8 machine, and these where the apps, that I just had to install first. My top 20: Audio/Video: Media Player Classic Home Cinema | VUPlayer Graphics/Multimedia: XNView | Gadwin Printscreen (v4.4) Internet: Opera Browser (v12) | YTD Video Downloader System utilities: AutoSizer (v1.53) | KatMouse | Volumouse | ExtractNow | 7+ Taskbar Tweaker | Quick Shutdown | Classic Shell System Monitoring: Process Explorer | Pserv (v2.6) Security: EXE Radar Pro | Sandboxie | VirusTotal Uploader Office/Documents: EditPad Lite | Foxit Reader
Well, aside of some software which are currently installed, here are some which I've used in the past and currently not being installed: Antivirus: Avira Free 9 | Emsisoft Antimalware | ESET Antivirus On-demand Scanner: HitmanPro | Emsisoft Emergency Kit Other Security Software: Mamutu | Sandboxie | AppGuard | EMET | Panda USB Vaccine | KeyScrambler Personal Firewall/Firewall Related: Online Armor | Sphinx's Windows Firewall Control Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.x | Comodo Dragon | Opera Mini 4.x (Mobile Phone) Media Player: PotPlayer | Gom Player Media Encoder/Converter: Kirara Encoder | AVS Video Converter | VidCoder | FFCoder Archiver: PeaZip Backup: AX64 Time Machine System Monitor: Process Explorer | WinPatrol Browser Extension (Firefox): NoScript | Adblock Plus | Download YouTube Videos as MP4 and FLV Browser Extension (Chrome): ScriptSafe | HTML5 video for YouTube PDF Viewer: SumatraPDF | PDF X-Change Viewer Free Emulator: nullDC | SSSPSX | Project64 Game: Built-in Pinball game in Windows XP | Mrs. Estacion | Uwabami Breakers | Phantasmagoria of Flower View | Uniting Barrage Action Disc Burner: PowerISO | CDBurnerXP Cleaner: CCleaner Virtual Machine: VMWare Player Audio Editor: Audacity Video Editor: Windows Movie Maker 2012 Virtual Musical Keyboard: Click MusicalKEYS Morse: WinMorse 2 Mobile Phone Related Software: MyPhoneExplorer | Sony Ericsson Themes Creator | MPSkinner | gMapMaker | A2Uploader Forum Software: MyBB Oh mai gawd what have I done to my computar?! Note: I know the list is only 25 at max. But I was playing around with many software and those software I have listed really gave me good impressions out of them. Sorry for the superfluous list, can't simplify it. Might as well serve as a recommendation list for those who are in a quest of finding software to do certain purposes. EDIT: Removed XenForo. I just remembered that I actually have never installed it. I've mistaken it with the live demo I tried a few while before we moved to XenForo. Then there's my memory disappointing me again. =V
Ooh where do I start? VLC, Cartes du Ciel, Virtual Moon Atlas, AbiWord, OpenOffice, SpywareBlaster, MBAM, Paint.NET, Google Earth, Sumatra PDF. That's 10, right?
* imaging program: Terabyte's Image for Windows/DOS/Linux * audio editing: Wavelab * CD ripper/audio converter: Poikosoft EZ CD Audio Converter * vector graphic: Xara Photo & Graphic Designer 9 * vector tracing: Vector Magic * bitmap graphic: Photoshop * general utility graphic program: Picpick * word processing: Polyedit * text editor: Sublime Text 3 * calendaring: VueMinder Pro * file manager: Directory Opus 11 * music player: XMPlay * video player: VLC * PDF reader: PDFXchange * PDF printer: doPDF * email reader: Windows Live Mail * web browser: IE11 * torrent: qBittorrent * mouse cursor: CursorFX Plus * virtual monitors: VirtuaWin * mouse gestures: StrokeIt * on-demand virus scan: Hitman Pro and VirusTotal * CSS editor: Stylizer
1. Fusion Tweaker - the undervolting, a necessity for any notebook. 2. Cleanmem - frees RAM better than Windows ever did and will. 3. CCleaner - magically fixes many problems + startup manager. 4. Yandex browser - Russian chrome with its own sync server. 5. Wise Care 365 Free - all in one maintenance tool + safe. The rest are common apps, easily replaced by other freeware options if needed, but those 5 are irreplaceable.
Browser: Google Chrome Email client: Outlook RSS: FeedDemon Antivirus: ESET On-demand AV: Hitmanpro | Malwarebytes AV | Emsisoft EK Virtualization: Sandboxie | Virtualbox Encryption: TrueCrypt Password Manager: KeePass Backup: Macrium Reflect Update checker: SUMO | Secunia PSI P2P: Utorrent Chat & Messages: Google Talk | Skype Video Player: Media Player Classic - Home Cinema Image editing: GIMP 2 Audio editing: Audacity Music Notation software: Sibelius CD/DVD burning: Nero Burning ROM Program Launcher: Launchy Process Manager: Process Explorer File Manager: Total Commander
Office Professional Plus 2013 Photoshop CS6 Extended Google Chrome, Earth, Gmail Windows 8 File History Snipping Tool VLC Media Player Avira Antivirus Suite Sandboxie Shadow Defender
Media Player DAUM PotPlayer Office SoftMaker FreeOffice Update checker Sumo Portable Email client/Monitor Thunderbird/Magic Mail Monitor Image editing Hornil StylePix Portable CD/DVD burning ImgBurn PDF Reader SumatraPDF Archiver Bandizip Unistaller IoBitUnistaller Portable
How come I forgot about GesWall? Also forgot about Nitro PDF Reader. EDIT: And Shadow Defender. I'm starting to hate myself. >=T
Thanks for posting, I really appreciate it. However, I think I should have been more clear. Some of you guys are not playing by the rules! You should post either a minimum of 10 or a maximum of 20 or 25 apps. It´s all about making choices. So almost everyone, except for Sampei Nihira should edit their post. Note about my list: I would have added TinyResMeter (v0.98.0.2) to the list, but it didn´t work correctly on Win 8.
I really appreciate it. Now that´s a true favorite list! Also funny to see how different all the lists are.
Agnitum: Outpost Pro Firewall Terabyte Unlimited: Image for DOS & Image for Linux SlySoft: AnyDVD HD; CloneDVD; Game Jackal Pro
I too. I realized though that actually I don't use them anymore because of prevalence of other video formats and ways of obtaining videos. I cannot remember when I brought a DVD last time. Nowadays when many online video/movie services are available Slysoft's business could be in danger, imo. Other my favourite applications: Opera (Chromium) with a few extensions CCleaner Revo Uninstaller Viber VLC Total Commander
Yeah, I didn't obey the OP rules too but not intentionally. The problem is that we have several similar threads on Wilders dealing with preferred ... favored ... installed ... best etc. software. Then there is easy to lose the essence of such threads.
rules are made to be twisted and broken! anyway, if I add 2 of my favorite games that'll make 25: * Faster Than Light * X-Plane 9