Top 20 Must-Have Applications

What are they?

I could only think of:
ms word
acrobat
winrar
calculator
itunes
newsbin


Your list?

 

Mine are:

GPU-Z
CPU-Z
HD Tune
Core temp
Hardware Monitor
3dmark06
Everest Ultimate
Driver sweeper

and of course a wide selection of games, ie, Crysis, Farcry 2, Burnout paradise, Left for dead, Fallout 3, and so on..

 

This question has been asked before.

It really depends - if you wanted to you could relace Word completely by TeX or MikTeX - just needs some effort.

It'll also depend on what you do - not everybod needs Photoshop CS4 or Dreamweaver CS4 for example.

 

Wordstar!!!!

 

Many of the ones that I use, are located in this simply awesome thread here

Snipping Tool is fun, and I really like Photobucket!
As with some of what you already have mentioned above!


Cin

 

Diskeeper
Eboostr 3
Foobar 2000
Office suite enterprise
Adobe CS3 master collection
Microsoft Math
Winrar
Windows Live messenger
Vmware
Maya 2009
utorrent

These softwares will cost you in upwards of $10 000 USD so it's not for everyone.

 

Firefox
iTunes
7-zip
Acrobat
GIMP
Avast
RightMark CPU
OpenOffice Writer
OO Calc
Steam
CCleaner
Adaware
Spybot

Unless you're fabulously wealthy or your employer bought it for you, I have a feeling these two might be related .

 

Mine:

FireFox
Winamp
Windows Live Messenger
NOD32
I8kfanGUI
Gimp
MS Office
RMClock
Steam
WinRAR
CCleaner

 

Opera
NOD32
WLM
uTorrent
Photoshop 7.0
mp3tag
PowerISO
WinRAR
K-Lite Codec Pack Full
K-Lite Codec Pack x64
Winamp
a-squared
Ratio Master
CCleaner

 

Logmein, skype, google earth, fraps, realplayer

 

Adobe
BitLord
PowerDVD9
Burn
Codecs
Download Manager
IrfanView
NOD 32
Open Office
Picasa 3
Skype
Soulseek
Super Rar
All Crystal Soft
CPU-Z and GPU-Z
Everest and Sandra
HDD Acoustic and HDD Unclicker
Tune Up 2009
Ultra ISO
UniExtract
VLC Player 1.0
zKulan Kendi SE

 

what a sad top list...


mine:
firefox
everything (best app ever, you should try it out, voidtools.com)
word
powerpoint
photoshop
messenger
daemon tools
internet download manager
steam lol
restorator 07
winamp
any vnc program
winamp

 

Sony Acid
Dragon's Naturally Speaking
Digidesign Pro Tools
Internet Download Manager (best $25 you'll ever spend-try it)
Hot Mail
Wilife
ConvertXtoDVD (version 2, not version 3)
Note Pad
Word Web
Sonic DigitalMedia
Microsoft System Restore
XP Task Manager
QuikTime
Windows Media Player
AVS Video Converter
DivX Player
ffdshow
Norton Internet Security
Google Toolbar
Internet
Wi-Fi
Power Button/switch
Heartbeat/pulse

 

My schools has unlimited licenses for adobe cs3 master collection.

 

Google Earth
Virtual Earth
CC Cleaner
Revo uninstaller
Foxit Reader
Picasa
Gmail Notifier
DiskMax
Firefox
Google Chrome
SuperAntiSpyware
MalwareBytes
M Office or Open Office
BatteryBar
The Gimp, Paint Shop Pro XI or other photo editor
CloneDrive ISO Mounter
Avast Free

 

RoboForm
Nero Micro
DVDFab Decrypter
HashTab
uTorrent
Office 2007
WinRAR
PhotoShop Elements 7
Avira AntiVir

 

Firefox
Windows Media Player
OpenOffice.org
FoxIt Reader
RocketDock
SyncBack
The GIMP
Paint.NET

 

µTorrent
3RVX matt.malensek.net
7-Zip 4.65
Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe Flash Player 10 Plugin Adobe Systems Incorporated
AIMP2 AIMP DevTeam
Audacity 1.3.7 (Unicode) Audacity Team
Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus Avira GmbH
CCleaner (remove only) Piriform
CDBurnerXP CDBurnerXP
Dropbox
EasyBCD 1.7.2 NeoSmart Technologies
ffdshow [rev 1723] [2007-12-24]
Foxit Reader
Glary Utilities 2.12.0.658 Glarysoft Ltd
Google Chrome Google Inc.
Google Gears Google
GTK+ Runtime 2.14.7 rev a (remove only)
Gunbound Revolution NHN USA
ijji
ijji FireFox Launcher 1.0 NHN USA
Java(TM) 6 Update 13 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware Malwarebytes Corporation
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Silverlight Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.17 Microsoft Corporation
Mozilla Firefox (3.0.10) Mozilla
NVIDIA Drivers NVIDIA Corporation
NVIDIA PhysX NVIDIA Corporation
Orbit Downloader www.orbitdownloader.com
Pidgin
Realtek 8169 8168 8101E 8102E Ethernet Driver Realtek
Realtek High Definition Audio Driver Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Revo Uninstaller 1.83 VS Revo Group
RocketDock 1.3.5 Punk Software
SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition SUPERAntiSpyware.com
The KMPlayer (remove only)
TVersity Codec Pack 1.2 TVersity Inc.
TVersity Media Server 1.5 Beta TVersity
UltraMon Realtime Soft Ltd
VirtualCloneDrive Elaborate Bytes

 

Firefox
Open Office
Vista Manager
Gadwins Print Screen
Winamp
Gom Player
Skype
HWmonitor
Smart Defrag
TrueCrypt
WinDirStat
AVG free
Spybot Search and Destroy
Window Blinds
Object Dock

 

I'd recommend a calculator!

 

I have the built-in calculator, lol. Or am I not getting the sarcasm?

 

Google is my calculator.

 

Actually, you reminded me of something that I use for calculator sometimes...Launchy!

 

Some people only listed a few apps, I simply just stole their potential inputs and added it into my selection.
Very legal.

 

MS Office
Visual Studio 2008
iTunes
Firefox
RM Clock
HWMonitor
CCleaner
JKDefrag
Autodesk Maya 2009
uTorrent
Winrar
Password Safe
Recuva
mIRC
NIS 2009
EasyBCD
Revo Uninstaller (it's been leaving a lot of stuff behind lately on the advanced mode...)
FileZilla
XdN Tweaker
Malware Bytes' Anti-malware

 

firefox
chrome
objectdock
Avast
Superantispyware
Itunes
MS office
Winrar
Grabit

 

Wordperfect 4.0!!!!!!

 

PowerShell can also be a calculator: http://pjbelfield.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/powershell-as-a-calculator/

 

my top 20:
ms works & office;
msn & IE;
java;
wmp plug in;
itune;
calculator;
adobe;
nis2009;
my printer(canon)

 

Can PowerShell do algebra though?

 

Chrome
Firefox
Avast
WMP
K-Lite Codec Pack
Picasa
Rhino 4.0
Bunkspeed Hypershot
Adobe photoshop cs3
MSOffice2007

µTorrent

 

> Acronis -> Backup & Protect HDD Images
> Foxit Reader -> Faster better version of Adobe Reader
> DoPDF -> Virtual .pdf printer for printing to pdf files.
> Everest -> Best monitoring and information gathering software I know of
> Irfan View -> Best image viewing software, very fast to open and great to resize and convert pics quickly (does batch too)
> Winamp -> Best music player
> CCCP -> Best Codec pack and includes MPC (media player classic) the best video player I have ever used.
> Firefox - Internet Browser

Anybody can use those

For me specifically

> SetFSB -> FSB overclocking software
> ATI Tool -> Has an artifact scanner great for testing gpu overclocks & temps
> GPU-Z -> to monitor or view gpu information and rip bios
> RBE -> Radion Bios Editor to edit my gpu bios
> WinFlash -> to flash bios to my gpu
> 3dmark Vantage -> To test computer performance
> Crysis + Crysis Benchmark Tool -> To test computer performance
> HD Tune -> HDD speed Test
> ATTO -> Another speed test good for flash based storage
> Crystal Mark -> Another speed test
> Sphere Timer -> A great clock gadet for Vista
> Photoshop CS4 -> My picture editing software
> Sony Vegas -> My Video Editing Software
> Vuze -> Bittorrent Client
> X264 -> My video encoding program
> NeroAACEnc -> My audio encoding program
> Mp4box or MkvMerge -> My muxing programs
> VirtualDub -> Quick editing software, sometimes use it to rip .wav from a video
> BePipe -> A transcoder to feed formats other than .wav into NeroAACEnc
> AVS2YUV -> A transcoder to feed 32bit Avisynth scripts to my 64bit X264
> Avisynth -> A scripted media program that can edit/encode and more.
> PPJoy -> A joystick emulation program I use to map my wiimote into windows gamepad axis for gaming.
> Glovepie -> A scripted emulation program to translate input comands into new output commands. Anything from making your J key type X, or for making the nintendo wiimote act like a game controller on your pc.
> ZSNES -> SNES emulator
> PCSX2 -> Playstation 2 emulator
> NullDC -> Dreamcast emulator
> Mame -> Arcade game emulator
> EasyBCD -> Easy boot manager
> Partition Magic -> Good non destructive partition manager
> Rocket Dock -> Nice icon dock with lots of options

 

Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2008
Notepad++
Foobar 2000
Nusphere PHPed
Steam
Firefox
Putty
TortoiseSVN
VMware
Apache
ViEmu
Chrome
CoreAVC
Windows Live Messenger
Free Download Manager
NewsLeecher
OllyDBG
Teamspeak
Xfire
Media Player Classic

 

For what I'm going to be doing, I picked up the Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium from my university book store. There are a couple of programs included that I don't think I'll need (Illustrator and OnLocation come to mind) so I'm not going to install all of them right away. Otherwise, there are a handful that I'm trying to learn my way around. I'm going to try to avoid loading my Vaio Z with unnecessary applications, but here are twenty that I'll definitely end up having.

General
01. Firefox
02. WinRAR
03. Flashget
04. Open Office
05. Avast Antivirus

Media
06. Zune
07. VLC
08. The GodFather
09. FairUse Wizard
10. Last.fm Client + Zuse + Zenses

Audio Production
11. FL Studio
12. Ableton Live
13. Adobe Soundbooth CS4
14. Audacity

Video Production
15. Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
16. Adobe After Effects CS4
17. Adobe Encore CS4

Image Production
18. Adobe Photoshop CS4

System Utilities
19. RM Clock
20. CCleaner

 

Winamp
CryptLoad
Auslogics BoostSpeed
GPU-Z
Fraps
HWMonitor 1.13 (64-bit)
Kaspersky Internet Security 2009
MemSet
3DMark06
Windows Live Messenger
Windows Live Mail
Microsoft Office
Internet Explorer
uTorrent
Games for Windows - LIVE

 

- Firefox running NoScript and FireGestures
- RocketDock
- The GIMP
- Inkscape
- Premiere Elements 7
- Audacity

Don't even need to mention Office 2007.

 

You never fail to impress!
Nice list Vicious, and with descriptions too!

 

nice list everyone thanks...

 

you show me yours and I'll show you mine;

Utilities

Ad-Aware v8.0.4
Adobe Flash Player v10
Adobe Shockwave Player v11.5
AttributeChanger v6.1a
HashCheck v2.1.8
HiJack This v2.0.2
Java(TM) 6 Update 13
Kels CPL Bonus Pack
Kels Runtime Pack
Kels Uber Pack
Malwarebytes Anti-malware v1.36
Nirsoft Suite
Prio v1.9.9.1732
SysInternals Suite
TeraCopy v2 beta 20090212
Unlocker v1.8.7
VirtualCloneDrive v5.4.2.5

Applications

7-Zip v4.65
Adobe Acrobat Reader v9.1.1
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended (v10.0.1)
CCleaner v2.19.901
ChaosSoft Intellect v3.0.3.9
ColorCop v5.4.3
Easy Duplicate Finder v2.2.1
ESBCalc v7.0.2
FileZilla Client v3.2.4.1
GNU Backgammon 20090421
Gnu Cash v2.2.9
ImgBurn v2.4.4
JR MediaCenter v13.169
KeePass Password Safe v1.15
Notepad++ v5.3.1
MWSnap v3
NeatImage v6
OpenOffice.org v3.1.0
Opera v9.64
PicturesToExe v5.6.4
PuTTY version v0.60
QuickTime v7.60.92.0
Skype v4.0.32.226
Sun xVM VirtualBox v2.2.2
TrueCrypt v6.2
VueScan v8.5.13
WinSCP v4.1.8
Wireshark v1.07
WordWeb v5.52
XnView v1.96.1

MSFT Components

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
Windows Internet Explorer v8
Windows Media Player 11

Fonts

MS GreetFonts
MS PubFonts
MS Server 2003 System Fonts
MS Win2000 System Fonts
MS WinXP System Fonts
MS Works Fonts
Optima Fonts
OregonLDOFonts
RHEL Liberation Fonts

Gadgets

All CPU Meter v1.0
Application Launcher v3.3.4.6
Simply Weather v1.2.1.0
System Control v1.4
Xirrus WiFi Monitor v1.11

I can toss all of this onto a 'fresh' system load in about an hour.

Considering the memory and perfomance hit of Sidebar compared to things like SideSlide and RocketDock, I will probably dump the native Windows gadgets for one of those two solutions. I also like that both SideSlide and RocketDock have a slide-in/slide-out capability (preserving on-screen real estate) that Sidebar and gadgets do not.

My Vista and Win7 machines have roughly the same software loads. In my particular mix of apps/utilities, I've found nothing that runs on Vista that will not also run on Win7.

 

Have you actually used this successfully on a laptop?

 

Ableton Live (8 now)
Traktor (3 right now, PRO maybe one day)
Visual Studio (.NET 3.5, XNA)
Windows Home Server (yes, not a software per se, but changes everything)

that's my top list.

i love sql server, some other music programs, media center, etc.. but i only have those 4 top apps right now.

 

Yeah its the lifes blood of my W90, overclock my 2.0ghz q9000 quad core to 2.7ghz

Huge boost in power.

 

Top 20 for me is:
Antivirus/Internet Security(watever brand)
CCleaner
Tune-Up Utilities
Defraggler
Spyware Blaster
Winamp/WMP
WLMessenger
Mozilla Firefox
MS office
Forceware(Nvidia)
Winrar
Utorrent/Bitcomet
Adobe CS 3 Premium Set
Autodesk: MAYA
RMclock
GRID(racing game)
Left 4 Dead(zombie shooting)
Warcraft3TFT(DOTA mainly)
VistaGlazz(styler)
Rocket Dock

LOL!!! Dun hav all these software in my laptop wil giv me a horrible nightmare XD!

 

Microsoft Office Enterprise (if this counts as one application)
foobar2000
Opera
IE8
Windows Media Player (with a codec pack - right now, I'm trying out VistaCodecs, although I have been a K-Lite user for a while)
Merriam-Webster Dictionary (I know, there are online dictionaries, but this is far more convenient)
Gmail Notifier
CoreTemp
WinRAR
Digsby
Adobe Acrobat Professional
Revo Uninstaller
Taskbar Shuffle
uTorrent