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    must have softwares for my new Dell Studio 15

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by poisen, Jul 18, 2008.

  1. poisen

    poisen Newbie

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    Dear all,

    Just give your views for must have softwares for new dell Studio 15. u can suggest both free / open source or licensed.This time I promise not to install any crap in it .
     
    poisen, Jul 18, 2008
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  2. Oppermann

    Oppermann Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well the usual stuff would be Firefox, Spybot, adblockplus (FF extension), CCleaner, AVG antivirus, ImgBurn. All of the above is freeware...
     
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  3. purplegreendave

    purplegreendave Has a notebook.

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    +1 except swap AVG for Avast! IMHO.
    Throw Open Office, Media Monkey and Gimp on too and you're set!
     
    purplegreendave, Jul 18, 2008
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    hthighway Notebook Enthusiast

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  5. XPSboy

    XPSboy Notebook Evangelist

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    check out Rollback Rx8.1

    it save me a lot of precious time whenever i got BSOD and software conflict.

    i dont need to look for solution or spend time browsing the internet to find the solution....just one click and it will restore your original system.
     
    XPSboy, Jul 18, 2008
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  6. poisen

    poisen Newbie

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    Do I really need to partition my HDD??
     
    poisen, Jul 18, 2008
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    directeuphorium Notebook Evangelist

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    It really depends on what you're using your studio 15 for though.

    My computers usually have a handful of programs:
    7zip, Firefox, AVG, Pidgin, VLC, Winamp, Ad-aware, Abiword, Nero, Sonar Cakewalk, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Steam, Virtual Box, Object Dock, utorrent and various file converters for sound and video formats.
     
    directeuphorium, Jul 19, 2008
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  8. paper_wastage

    paper_wastage Beat this 7x7x7 Cube

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    i've always found it easier with two partitions(one for OS, ~50GB, one for doucments, rest of hard drive)

    that way, if u need to reinstall, just copy ur files in the OS partition to ur other partition, then reinstall windows, then reinstall ur software, then clone the OS patrtition.. next time u have problems, just copy ur files, then restore the OS partition with the clone
     
    paper_wastage, Jul 19, 2008
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