What is your favorite 'must-have' PC app?

[AaLF]

Some little gems there guys. I'm already using a couple. At glanze, not a head-count, Chrome is most popular followed by Sandboxie.

So I've resurrected Sandboxie (see siggy) and finally loaded Chrome to see what the fuss is about.

[ComputerSaysNo]

My most used

Bleechbit
CCleaner + CCenhancer
BCwipe
Jetclean
Auslogics Registry Cleaner
Wise Disk & Registry Cleaner
VirtualBox

[gerardwil]

Nirlauncher with integrated Sysinternals Suite

[PoetWarrior]

1. Definitely would be Acronis True Image (recovery disk). Let's me experiment and alternate while figuring out if I wanted Win 8.

2. Next would be Firefox with Adblock plus.

3. Finally, K9 Web protection. It's improved and and working well.

[encus]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

Security apps aside......
My favorite 'must-have' PC app would have to be AdMuncher, just could not surf without it.

Is it similar with AdBlock Plus?

Thanks.

[Osaban]

Originally Posted by pajenn

Vista Start Menu: Better than Windows XP or 7 regular start menu.

Thanks, it is really an interesting start menu!

[tipo]

i`ll skip the security software because everyday a new, better one comes and goes..my favorite software was/is/will be FireFox!

[Pinga]

Everything search engine

Locate files and folders by name instantly.

http://www.voidtools.com/

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by encus

Is it similar with AdBlock Plus?

Thanks.

I never used AdBlock Plus as I do not use Firefox (Personal preference)
But AdMuncher works in all browsers, the home page explains much more then I could..............
http://www.admuncher.com/
I've been using it for years and it's one of the few app's I could count one one hand that I'm very happy with and have no intention on changing in the foreseeable future.
It is not free but worth every penny IMO.

[AaLF]

Originally Posted by LoneWolf

I never used AdBlock Plus as I do not use Firefox (Personal preference)

what browser are you using? I just tried Chrome on my setup & as you can see my siggy has already reverted back to FF. Due to slowness & non responsive at times. I think maybe DW.

[LoneWolf]

Originally Posted by AaLF

what browser are you using? I just tried Chrome on my setup & as you can see my siggy has already reverted back to FF. Due to slowness & non responsive at times. I think maybe DW.

It was Opera for about three years but have recently switched to Chrome and the page rendering problem that I started having with Opera is gone and Chrome does defiantly seem a bit faster. Real time here is still DefenseWall coupled along side Shadow Defender and PC is as quick as it ever was.

[silat]

Originally Posted by gerardwil

Nirlauncher with integrated Sysinternals Suite

Try WSCC to have a launcher for Nirsoft and SS.
Just an alternative

[gerardwil]

Originally Posted by silat

Try WSCC to have a launcher for Nirsoft and SS.
Just an alternative

Yep nice

[chrisretusn]

What is my favorite 'must-have' PC program?

Do I have to pick one only?

[wasgij6]

FARR i cant go without my app launchers

[kerykeion]

Chrome, WinAmp, WinRAR and MPC:HC

[kennyboy]

Notezilla, Chrome, and Shadow Defender.

[MerleOne]

For me, probably XYplorer and Winrar.

[moontan]

first i gotta have a good file manager.
i tried a whole bunch of those and my 2 favorites are DOpus and XYplorer.

then i got to have a PIM of some sort (Personal Information Manager) to grab article and snippets from the web, keep track of todos and appointments etc...
i have gone through a whole bunch of those because i have an addiction problem. lol
i finally settled in the last few days on MyInfo Pro.

other favorites:

word processor: Atlantis
music player: Audacious
cleaning apps: BleachBit and CCleaner
system monitors: Autorun, System Explorer, HWiNFO
on demand AVs: HMP, VirusTotal, Jotti
firewall: Look and Stop Firewall
PDF viewer: PDF X-change viewer
file encryption: TrueCrypt
desktop tools: StrokePlus (mouse gesture) and VirtuaWin (virtual monitors)

[TyRidian]

My favorites:

Comodo Firewall
Adobe Photoshop Elements 11
Norton Zone
Guild Wars 2
Privazer
Bitdefender Antivirus, Panda Cloud, Avast or EXE Radar Pro (I tend to switch between these quite often)
Firefox
Steam
Speccy
Process Lasso
Malwarebytes

[Bodhitree]

1) Admuncher
2) Fences (absolute must)
3) RollbackRX

[Mman79]

Originally Posted by Bodhitree

1) Admuncher
2) Fences (absolute must)
3) RollbackRX

Fences huh? I don't think I've had desktop icons enabled for a long time, I use the desktop more as a picture frame, lol.

[jonyjoe101]

Whenever I have a new PC, I always install these two programs.

1. rocketdock
2. teracopy

[Trooper]

Firefox
Adblock Plus
CCleaner
Eset

Just off the top of my head. There are others but those are tops for me at the moment on each PC that I own or use at work.

[Daveski17]

This is a difficult one as I am not sure if I can choose one favourite. I always like PDF-XC, VLC, Google Earth, Marble, Paint.NET, Stellarium & Celestia on any PC I run. I also like OpenOffice & AbiWord. They are all my favourite.