Programs Worth Getting?
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Hmm, well. For free progs you need WinRar, Dosbox, Youtube Downloader, Audacity, ImgBurn, Hamachi and Magic Disc. I could go on but the list is endless.
What do you want to do? What are you interested in? There are programs to do all sorts of things.
Well since you're on a Gaming forum, I'll have to give you some gaming software advice as I know little about what you need the software for.
Steam ( http://store.steampowered.com/ ) is a big one, although you probably heard of it.
Fraps ( http://www.fraps.com/ ) for recording videos, taking screenshots, and the useful feature of seeing your fps.
RAMRush ( http://www.fcleaner.com/ramrush.htm ) is a program to use if your computer ever feels too slow, it frees up your RAM or something like that, it works surprisingly well and whenever you feel hogged up, just click the optimize button!
Glary Utilities For giving your computer some spring cleaning!
And an anti-virus program obviously.
Steam ( http://store.steampowered.com/ ) is a big one, although you probably heard of it.
Fraps ( http://www.fraps.com/ ) for recording videos, taking screenshots, and the useful feature of seeing your fps.
RAMRush ( http://www.fcleaner.com/ramrush.htm ) is a program to use if your computer ever feels too slow, it frees up your RAM or something like that, it works surprisingly well and whenever you feel hogged up, just click the optimize button!
Glary Utilities For giving your computer some spring cleaning!
And an anti-virus program obviously.
Two points I'd like to raise...
You waited a total of 9 minutes.
That is a BROAD question.
To be helpful, though, I'll say Malwarebytes. Really awesome program.
You waited a total of 9 minutes.
That is a BROAD question.
To be helpful, though, I'll say Malwarebytes. Really awesome program.
It depends on what you want to do with it.
Though some good general purpose programs are:
AVG/whatever anti-virus software you prefer
DeskScapes
Fences Pro
WindowBlinds
DeskScapes let you customize your desktop wallpaper to a much higher degree, even letting you use animated backgrounds.
Fences is a desktop organizational tool that lets you make a cluster, called a "Fence", that you can populate with desktop icons. With fences you can do fancy stuff like hide them until you mouse over them, auto-sort new desktop icons, rearrange them as you like, etc. It's quite handy for me at least.
WindowBlinds is another Windows customization tool that lets you change the look of the taskbar, start menu, and the top bar (the thing containing the minimize, maximize and close buttons).
Edit:
And you'll probably also want CCleaner. It cleans out registry errors, as well as temporary files, internet cache, etc.
Though some good general purpose programs are:
AVG/whatever anti-virus software you prefer
DeskScapes
Fences Pro
WindowBlinds
DeskScapes let you customize your desktop wallpaper to a much higher degree, even letting you use animated backgrounds.
Fences is a desktop organizational tool that lets you make a cluster, called a "Fence", that you can populate with desktop icons. With fences you can do fancy stuff like hide them until you mouse over them, auto-sort new desktop icons, rearrange them as you like, etc. It's quite handy for me at least.
WindowBlinds is another Windows customization tool that lets you change the look of the taskbar, start menu, and the top bar (the thing containing the minimize, maximize and close buttons).
Edit:
And you'll probably also want CCleaner. It cleans out registry errors, as well as temporary files, internet cache, etc.
Well that really depends on what you use computers for and what you do on it. One of the first things you should worry about is some type of antivirus program, I'd recommend Avast, its free and vastly better than most of the ones you pay for(last one I paid for was McAfee, it is absolutely useless). Also Malwarebyte's Antimalware is a really good program but you won't really need that till your computer is already infected.
If you use torrents get Utorrent, and to handle videos I'd suggest getting the CCCP (combined community codec pack), then you can just play virtually any video file in media player classic. VLC player is also a pretty good simple alternative, though not as good. Divx web player is also good for sites that stream good quality divx videos. If you keep a lot of music on your computer Winamp is a good program to play it from.
For burning stuff, ConvertXtoDVD 3 works really well, does what its name implies and coverts different file types to be ready to be burned as a DVD. I think MagicISO is what I use generally to burn games and stuff. EDIT: scratch that I use ImgBurn more.
Hmm, Winrar I usually get right away after setting up a computer, never know when you'll need to use that. Browsers I use are Firefox and Google Chrome, I find both have their uses still. Get Adblocker Plus for Firefox and AdThwart for Chrome, then you don't have to see any ads on the internet.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
If you use torrents get Utorrent, and to handle videos I'd suggest getting the CCCP (combined community codec pack), then you can just play virtually any video file in media player classic. VLC player is also a pretty good simple alternative, though not as good. Divx web player is also good for sites that stream good quality divx videos. If you keep a lot of music on your computer Winamp is a good program to play it from.
For burning stuff, ConvertXtoDVD 3 works really well, does what its name implies and coverts different file types to be ready to be burned as a DVD. I think MagicISO is what I use generally to burn games and stuff. EDIT: scratch that I use ImgBurn more.
Hmm, Winrar I usually get right away after setting up a computer, never know when you'll need to use that. Browsers I use are Firefox and Google Chrome, I find both have their uses still. Get Adblocker Plus for Firefox and AdThwart for Chrome, then you don't have to see any ads on the internet.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Yeah, McAfee is absolute shit. All that used to do was minimise games that I was playing.Bon_Clay said:
LogMeIn Hamachi
"Fakes" a LAN, over the Internet. Basicly, this means you can use LAN in games, even while playing across six timezones.
(https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/)
Rainmeter
Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gagdgets, or dashboard widgets for the Mac. (Takes forever to setup, but it's WICKED)
(http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/)
Skype
Your basic Voice-over-IP program, which kicks the ass of MSN, XFire and AIM (IMO)
This will even let you make actual phone calls, cross-countries, for a much lower fee than your phone company, which I find is very useful.
(http://www.skype.com)
VideoLan VLC Media Player
This thing plays everything. EVERYTHING. It's simple, doesn't take up loads of screen space with half a million menus and lists, and generally just pwns the living £@&e¤ out of any other I've used in the past.
(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
Audacity
One of the better freeware sound editors available. Lets you edit pretty much all aspects of a music track, and has several optional extras for working with different encodings and so on.
Personally use this a lot to highten the sound level of music tracks, to match that of my current library. (So I don't have to fiddle with the sound control all the time >.<)
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
"Fakes" a LAN, over the Internet. Basicly, this means you can use LAN in games, even while playing across six timezones.
(https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/)
Rainmeter
Rainmeter is a desktop customization platform. Through Rainmeter, you can enhance your Windows computer at home or work with skins: handy, compact applets which float freely on your desktop, much like Windows Sidebar gagdgets, or dashboard widgets for the Mac. (Takes forever to setup, but it's WICKED)
(http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/)
Skype
Your basic Voice-over-IP program, which kicks the ass of MSN, XFire and AIM (IMO)
This will even let you make actual phone calls, cross-countries, for a much lower fee than your phone company, which I find is very useful.
(http://www.skype.com)
VideoLan VLC Media Player
This thing plays everything. EVERYTHING. It's simple, doesn't take up loads of screen space with half a million menus and lists, and generally just pwns the living £@&e¤ out of any other I've used in the past.
(http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
Audacity
One of the better freeware sound editors available. Lets you edit pretty much all aspects of a music track, and has several optional extras for working with different encodings and so on.
Personally use this a lot to highten the sound level of music tracks, to match that of my current library. (So I don't have to fiddle with the sound control all the time >.<)
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)
