Windows recommended apps

[Silenus]

Thanks for recommending
Codecs : Combined Community Codec Pack , Core AVC

I'll check them now.

[refraction]

there's no stickies in this forum, i recon this makes a good start. keep that thread updated

oh and if i may ad one

Spyware protection:

Spyware Blaster

unlike spybot and adaware (which are scanners + resident) spyware blaster merely provides firefox (which spybot doesnt do) and IE protection against advertising sites and viruses, there is no resident, it merely blocks them out so running once a week or smth is more than enough, i find it goes quite nicely in hand with adaware and spybot s&d.

edit: just noticed they arent in the first post, wanna update it with additions people give?

[minime_samilin]

You can try K-Lite Codec Pack too. The Mega one is great if you're into video converting.

[OminaeYu]

For general .ISO .BIN .IMG .GCM .MDS .NRG and about 9 other different formats I would recommend The Official ImgBurn Website its from the maker of DVD Decrypter

EDIT:
What the crap I did not write "The Official ImgBurn Website" part where the hell did that come from I'm scared now

[refraction]

Originally Posted by OminaeYu

For general .ISO .BIN .IMG .GCM .MDS .NRG and about 9 other different formats I would recommend The Official ImgBurn Website its from the maker of DVD Decrypter

EDIT:
What the crap I did not write "The Official ImgBurn Website" part where the hell did that come from I'm scared now

dont worry, the forum has "title detection" to give your link a name if you didnt give it one, so it doesnt display as a link :P

[Coolsvilleman]

for quick and dirty media encoding/decoding from using avi codecs I suggest bink/smacker from rad game tools.
irfanview, VLC, MPC will open any media file ever... almost.
NVTweak for nvidia card users (Low level card-tweaking).
Tor for use when proxies don't.
foxyproxy just useful
hamachi for old lan gaming over the net
Ultravnc + dynDNS for easy remote login of your personal computer
XBCD for plug/play xbox gamepads/dance mat/etc
Daemon tools for image loading
7zip, winrar for compression
beyond compare for file comparision

most of the admin/antivirus software named here is good so i wont mention it.

[Silenus]

Originally Posted by refraction

there's no stickies in this forum, i recon this makes a good start. keep that thread updated

just noticed they arent in the first post, wanna update it with additions people give?

Thanks Ref.
I'll update my post with the recommendations of our mates.

[DoktorSeven]

How about the obvious: GNU/Linux as the OS?

[blueshogun96]

Sir rudy_x told me about Hitman Pro which is anti-spyware program

Hitman Pro | Alles-in-1 oplossing tegen spyware - Home

[Zephon]

Nice thread. It would indeed help all people that come asking "which is the best software to...?"

A couple of suggestions:

Audio Player:
-foobar2000 (quite good, plays everything, plenty of features, very low resource consumer, not exactly a beauty contest winner)

Image Viewer:
-XnView (together with Irfanview one of my favourites. It has actually more features than Irfanview, but it's hard to leave the classic Irfan)

FTP Client:
-Filezilla (open source, full featured, easy to use)

CD/DVD Images Manager:
-Alcohol 120% (makes perfect images, burns to discs, includes virtual drive)

[Silenus]

Thanks for the contribution.
I've forgotten about Alcohol 120% 'cause of Daemon tools.
Will add it now.

I once saw foobar but it was ugly. Don't remember if you could download skins.

I'll also add a little program called Hacha.
Most of you must know it, it's a great file splitter.

[OminaeYu]

ConTEXT Programmers Editor
ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed mainly to serve as secondary tool for software developers. It can also be used as a Notepad replacement.

RegCleaner
RegCleaner can easily get rid of those old and obsolete registry entries created by software that you have deleted ages ago.

Central Brain Identifier
Central Brain Identifier is designed to provide detailed identification and obtaining the most complete information on all AMD processors. It recognizes more than 50 various models of the AMD processors. It shows not only the general information about the processor, but also allows to determine its important technical features, such as processor core name, core revision, a nominal processor frequency, the date of announce, an OPN number, the components of the PowerNow! Technology and also independently computes the QuantiSpeed Rating for processors having a Model Number.

DVDFab Decrypter
Basically a continuation of DVD Decrypter

SpeedFan
SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for those hard disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures too, if supported.

[@ruantec]

Well i have a different selection of apps.

Antivirus:
Bitdefender 10

Spyware:
Bitdefender 10

Firewall:
Zonealarm

Video Player:
@ruantec A.E.S

DVD Player:
@ruantec A.E.S

Audio Player:
@ruantec A.E.S

Video Encoding:
@ruantec A.E.S

Audio Converter:
@ruantec A.E.S

Audio Recorder:
@ruantec A.E.S

Codec:
ffdshow (needed for @ruantec A.E.S)

Image Viewer:
@ruantec A.E.S

TVcard applications:
@ruantec A.E.S
DScaler

TVcard recording:
@ruantec A.E.S

Virtual CD drive:
@ruantec A.E.S
DAEMON Tools

Burning Utility:
@ruantec A.E.S
Nero
BurnOn CD/DVD
DVD Decrypter

ISO creation utility:
@ruantec A.E.S

Emulation Frontends:
@ruantec A.E.S
Emu-Raptor

Overclocking:
CPU-Z
SuperPi Mod
RivaTuner
MBM5
A64info
A64Tweaker

Applications with Wiimote support:
@ruantec A.E.S

Genesis emulators:
Gens
@ruantec A.E.S

Office applications:
OpenOffice

Well this is the actual selection of application on my PC.

Note:
Before you ask @ruantec A.E.S is still under development and is not for the public right now.

Edit: the reason why i post that is to show which programs am currently using nothing more.

Greetz
@ruantec-Man

[OminaeYu]

Originally Posted by @ruantec-Man

Well i have a different selection of apps.

*snip of @ruantec-Man whoring out his program*

Greetz
@ruantec-Man

Where's mah Kitchen Sink beotch

~In other news...I forgot about DScaler

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by OminaeYu

Where's mah Kitchen Sink beotch

~In other news...I forgot about DScaler

sorry i don´t understand what you mean
btw i just wanted to post the applications am currently using on my PC and not promoting my programm(is a freeware)...anyway this just a small list of features currently supported by my programm...nothing special.

[OminaeYu]

Originally Posted by @ruantec-Man

sorry i don´t understand what you mean
btw i just wanted to post the application am currently using on my PC.

Don't mind me I'm just in a silly mood

But seriously your program needs more kitchen sink.....and maybe some more cowbell

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by OminaeYu

Don't mind me I'm just in a silly mood

But seriously your program needs more kitchen sink.....and maybe some more cowbell

Are you kidding me??? sorry but i don´t like that kind of jokes.
if you don´t believe it than OK is your problem(and I respect that) but don´t try to fool me...

[thc]

Didn't seen KPF (kerio not sunbelt one) here.

@ruantec A.E.S
Just out of curiosity how many 3rd party libs are there ? (for example what do You use for burning) anyway looking forward to this one as it seem to be complex so total less resource usage. (throw in firewall and I'll love it)

[@ruantec]

Originally Posted by thc

Didn't seen KPF (kerio not sunbelt one) here.

@ruantec A.E.S
Just out of curiosity how many 3rd party libs are there ? (for example what do You use for burning) anyway looking forward to this one as it seem to be complex so total less resource usage. (throw in firewall and I'll love it)

so it was not my intention to post this here...but it looks like it was a mistake... anyway to aswer your question. my goal is to creat a all in one thingy a application for almost every task you need to do everyday...burn cd/dvd,hear music,play videos,play games etc. for the burning process i´ve created my own way to record media. in fact i´ve created differents projects in the past and @ruantec A.E.S put all those projects together in one single application.
@ruantec A.E.S doesn´t use 3rd party libs. only ffdshow is needed

about the firewall.... i can do it(it´s not a big deal) but i didn´t though on that before... so it´s(for now) not in my 'TO DO' list... maybe i can do something for you later.

Greetz

[DB7]

Personally the only program I find that I need is Digiguide DigiGuide: The Best TV Guide with UK Radio and UK TV Listings which give me all my television listings.