Windows 7 Essential Programs (says me), 2011 Edition
This is an update of my post from February 2010. It's a list I made of programs I need to install on a new OS before I consider it ready to use. Most of these are essential to me either for work or play. Next week I'm upgrading my main workstation to an unlocked i5, a SSD, and a motherboard which includes USB3 and room for a lot more RAM. The programs are in the order I thought of them which is often also the order of importance. MS Security Essentials (was AGV Free in 2009) Chrome and FireFox (was just FF last time) Git command line version (was Subversion but I won't install that until I need it) Putty PuttyCM (and unclick "Hide when minimized") cygwin Perl (Strawberry these days) vmware player Thunderbird and Clowdmark anti-spam vim and plugins Radiator Audacity Sync Toy eWallet winSCP Retrospect Beyond Compare (last time I installed X Mouse but I just use the registry hack now) easyBCD New to the list: Dropbox Maya Open Office winDirStat (new to the list but old to the toolbox. Just put it on there, you'll need it some day) Synergy 32bit (64bit version doesn't work for me) Input Director (If both systems are PC this is great, and you can cut and paste files, but I need Synergy for cross platform) EAC (hey look, there's a new version after all these years. Hope it's good...) FLAC I'll probably wait for the 1.7 Ti SDK to install Titanium Developer and the Android SDK tools. I'll stay on the iMac for now. Set Win7 for X mouse and "better" power settings i.e. don't shut down after some idle time... That' about it. [/items/Devlog] permanent link