I'm starting fresh on my Asus laptop with Vista Home Premium 32bit. What are a few must have programs that play nice with Vista - eg. security, burning, video? Thanks!
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BlackHawkBible music connoisseurThere's no place like 127.0.0.1Icrontian
edited January 2009
Eset NOD32, GOM Player, Daemon Tools, CCleaner, etc.
If you doing a fresh install Why do vista? I would put xp on, you know most things already likes
xp including alot of hardware you may want to plug into it.
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He might like playing games and only Vista gives you DX10. That depends if his graphics card is DX10 capable. If it isn't, the main benefit of Vista over XP is gone. Back to to the question
ESET NOD32 Antivirus
7-Zip or WinRAR (I just started using 7-Zip, I like it)
CCleaner (for cleaning temp files)
PowerISO (for dealing with disk image type files)
Nero Ultra (latest)
Office 2007
Foxit reader (better than adobe acrobat reader, doesn't use stupid adobe background process)
Skype (better at video chat and file transfers than live messenger)
DVD Decrypter
DVD Shrink
RipIt4Me (use in conjunction with the previous two apps for backing up your DVD collection)
Windows Live Messenger
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Daemon Tools
ISO Recorder v3
FRAPS
Folding@Home
Firefox
RivaTuner
Synergy
FoxIt
K-Lite Codec Pack w/ Media Player Classic
xp including alot of hardware you may want to plug into it.
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ESET NOD32 Antivirus
7-Zip or WinRAR (I just started using 7-Zip, I like it)
CCleaner (for cleaning temp files)
PowerISO (for dealing with disk image type files)
Nero Ultra (latest)
Office 2007
Foxit reader (better than adobe acrobat reader, doesn't use stupid adobe background process)
Skype (better at video chat and file transfers than live messenger)
DVD Decrypter
DVD Shrink
RipIt4Me (use in conjunction with the previous two apps for backing up your DVD collection)
Windows Live Messenger
Online Armour Free
OPEN OFFICE (as good as microsoft Office and Free)
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
WinRAR
GIMP
Also, I would go to portableapps.com and look around there