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What windows based software could you not be without?

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 9:23
by Woo Elephant Yeah
For me it's

Crap Cleaner (cleans crap from your machine)
Dreamweaver MX 2004 (For website design and modifying php code)
TreeSize Professional (for monitoring data size on the network/PC)
GlobalSCAPE Cute FTP Home (FTP client for uploading/downloading files)
Xfire (for playing games against you badger fuckers)
Mozilla Firefox (Image)

Re: What windows based software could you not be without?

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 9:42
by Dog Pants
Woo Elephant Yeah wrote: Mozilla Firefox (Image)
This

Plus Potatoshop, some kind of firewall (I don't care which), Winamp (for listening to FTLFM) and WinRAR. A game or two is good too.

Might check out that crap cleaner though, 'cos I've got loads of crap.

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 9:44
by wyrd
Crimson Editor
Photoshop
Fiirefox
TweekUI
OOo

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 9:56
by Jinxx
winrar
firefox
trillian
getright
winamp
xfire
teamspeak

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 11:01
by Private J.
Top of the list has to be Call of Duty
followed by Visual Studio.Net (because I wouldn't be able to afford to play Call of Duty without it)
Oh! and IE of course (just to be different) (PS. please leave me out of the obligatory debat that is bound to follow)

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 11:05
by Wiggy
EVE
mmmm eve...

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 11:05
by Jinxx
Private J. wrote:IE of course (just to be different)
Whatever floats your boat. My favourite browser is Safari with a custom build of WebKit.

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 11:23
by spoodie
Jinxx wrote:
Private J. wrote:IE of course (just to be different)
Whatever floats your boat. My favourite browser is Safari with a custom build of WebKit.
Jinxx, AICMFP :D

I think everyone has IE, is it possible to get rid of it?

DU Meter is a nice little network traffic monitor that I like to use.

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 11:26
by Jinxx
spoodie wrote:Jinxx, AICMFP :D
hehehehe
Naw, I like Windows really. But if I have to do any kind of web development or graphic design work on it, I just get driven bananas.

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 16:28
by deject
the games. that's the biggest reason I'm not running Linux.

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 17:31
by wyrd
I think everyone has IE, is it possible to get rid of it?
nope, it's an integral part of windows

tehere's an entry for it in add/remove windows componants, but unticking it does nothing

EDIT: removing it only gets rid of shortcuts

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 18:39
by TezzRexx
Firefox
Xfire
Photoshop
Dreamweaver (not needed so much any more, just for 5perm ((lol)) and college)
WMP (might not count, not sure)
Flash
Nero burning ROM & Wave editor
Speedfan
CCleaner
DriverCleaner

and if you can't find them, I suggest you try this.
Image

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 19:01
by deject
wyrd wrote:
I think everyone has IE, is it possible to get rid of it?
nope, it's an integral part of windows

tehere's an entry for it in add/remove windows componants, but unticking it does nothing

EDIT: removing it only gets rid of shortcuts
Actually untrue. It is indeed possible to separate IE from Windows, but doing so makes Windows Update unusable, along with some other functions.

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 19:37
by spoodie
TezzRexx wrote:WMP (might not count, not sure)
Weapons of Mass Pwnage? :wink:

I also use:

Azureus (bittorrent)
FileZilla (upload codez)

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 21:58
by Nickface
well, the programs I use on a daily basis have already been named.

So I'll just say notepad.

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 22:07
by Dr. kitteny berk
deject wrote:Actually untrue. It is indeed possible to separate IE from Windows, but doing so makes Windows Update unusable, along with some other functions.
Also untrue, it's *totally* removable, and it's possible to get firefox to do the job of windows update and such (there's a few ways, JFGI).


but it's a fucking stupid idea, so don't.

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 22:09
by wyrd
how queer, you learn somthing everyday

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 23:24
by Nickface
I remember watching on TechTV that the Windows "File Manager" is still built into windows and youc an enable it. So if you ever got a pining for the good old days of 3.1x, then you could always go back and do that too.

Posted: July 13th, 2005, 23:38
by deject
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:but it's a fucking stupid idea, so don't.

well, that was my point...

Posted: July 14th, 2005, 16:31
by cashy
there are alot of bad things with IE and all of that, but to be honest as long as you only use the browser for things firefox wont do, theres not much chance of it getting bugged or going tits up. i just let it sleep in a corner