Your Windows Survival Kit

Overheal

If you had to re-format your machine tomorrow; what programs would you *have* to have in order to function properly? Or rather which would you keep aside to save yourself the hassle of re-downloading? Try and limit yourself to 10 and see if you can live..

Mine would be:

Internet:
-Firefox
-Norton Internet Security ( no comments please - I know. )
-Spybot

Work:
-OpenOffice
-Mac Flash Pro
-Corel Paint XI
-Visual Studio Pro

Windows:
-WinRAR
-WinDirStat
-MagicDisc

sebastianlieken

avg free
iTunes
messenger
allway sync
cod4
pro engineer wildfire 3.0
office 07
adobe reader
ccleaner
daemon tools
winrar

and all the up to date drivers of course....

all the above are *MUST* have programs for me

PogMoThoin

This is what i use, more than 10 here, but I'm always backed up & ready for reinstall:

Security: Avira Antivir, SpywareBlaster, Malware bytes, SuperAntiSpyware & SpywareGuard
Browser: Firefox, although using minefield pre-release 3 here
Burner: Nero 7 Ultra, just install the smartstart, not the other bloatware $hit
Office: OpenOffice, tried office 07 but prefer this

Overclocking programs:
Everest, OCCT, Rivatuner, 3DMark06, Speedfan

Various other programs
Winrar, aMsn, Skype, Media Monkey, Vlc media player, Foxit Reader, Alcohol 120%, Vista Manager, My few gadgets

Games:
Fraps, COD2, COD4, FEAR, Steam Games CSS, HL2, HL2 ep 1, Oblivion

Macers

AVG Anti-Virus Pro
Zonealarm
Spybot Search & Destroy
Ashampoo WinOptimizer 2008
Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Acronis (strongly recommend)

Office 2007
Win RAR
DVD X Player 4.1
Adobe Reader 8

rmacm

Essentials for me to have would be:

Firefox
Adobe Acrobat
MS Office
Putty

A few in house work applications would probably bring it up to 7 or 8 and then a media player like musikCube.

Jaoibh

MIRC, Googletalk, MSN and skype
Office 2k7 pro, Visio
Putty, Winscp
cisco VPN, Realvnc
Winrar
blackberry desktop manager
magic ISO, Nero
VLC
Utorrent
Norton Corporate
Alcholo 120%
VMware server, Virtual infrastructure client for ESX server
Admin Pack for Active Directory

Bluefrog

Knoppix live CD for when it all goes pear shaped

Capt'n Midnight

Bluefrog wrote: »

Knoppix live CD for when it all goes pear shaped

dual boot ftw, if you use the poor mans install you only need a 1GB Fat32 partition , USB keys are also good

kaizersoze

The Windows CD would be top of my list.:)

Overheal

kaizersoze wrote: »

The Windows CD would be top of my list.:)

fancy!

Ruu_Old

MozBackup for emails and interweb settings.

Ginger

I have a version of my Wiindows install done with my unattend.txt setup so i can get it installed without needing me. Has all the hotfixes and drivers I need slipstreamed into it to get a base install working.

Means most of my stuff is preapplied including codepage and localisation settings, network keys etc.

Also have a version done with MS Office as well, but generally tend to have all my software lined up with the neccessary SPs pre-applied. And my dev environment is a virtual machine so thats dead easy to set back up!

dazberry

1. Paragon Hard Disk Manager
From which I would reapply the last snapshop.

If it was a new machine and obviously had no image, then I would also need (in no particular order)
2. Nero Burning Rom
3. Task switch XP
4. PeaZip
5. Paint Shop Pro 6
6. AVG Free
7. Opera

8. VMWare Server
All my development images are now virtual - the real pain is getting all the environments set back up - don't have to worry about that anymore

9. My collection of program images/glyphs and icons.

10. FTPx and 14All (both old) that I use for maintaining my personal website.

D.

Sherifu

There can be only one.

Overheal

Sherifu wrote: »

There can be only one.

surely if youre gonna go through the hassle you'd just do something like this

Sherifu

Overheal wrote: »

surely if youre gonna go through the hassle you'd just do something like this

I'm not inclined to take myself out. I would go for defence instead.