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You just reinstalled your OS... what are the first things you install?

Discussion in 'Tilted Gear' started by cynthetiq, Oct 15, 2011.

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  1. cynthetiq

    cynthetiq Administrator Staff Member Donor

    Location:
    New York City
    I have a number of PCs all over the place and every time I get a new one I install something first on it...

    It used to be Firefox, now it's Chrome.

    After that, Filezilla and MS Office and I'm pretty much done.
     
    cynthetiq, Oct 15, 2011
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  2. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Used to be Firefox, but now it would be Chrome. Then:

    avast! Antivirus
    ZoneAlarm
    Spybot-Search&Destroy
    CCleaner

    That's for PC. If it were OSX, it would be:

    Chrome
    Microsoft Office
    Adobe Creative Suite
    Cyberduck

    Quite the difference, no?
     
    Baraka_Guru, Oct 15, 2011
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  3. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

    Location:
    Mars
    Chrome and Thunderbird are first on the list. avast is my free AV software of choice for Windows machines, then it's Pidgin for Linux or Windows or Adium for Mac.

    It gets a bit confusing being an active user of Windows, Mac and Linux.
     
    martian, Oct 16, 2011
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  4. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    Firefox... still don't like Chrome.

    Caffeine
     
    Charlatan, Oct 16, 2011
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  5. Remixer

    Remixer Middle Eastern Doofus

    Location:
    Frankfurt, Germany
    Microsoft Office
    ESET Smart Security
    Chrome
    Skype
     
    Remixer, Oct 16, 2011
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  6. Jove

    Jove Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Michigan
    After the updates:
    Firefox
    Chrome
    CCleaner
    Malwarebytes
     
    Jove, Oct 16, 2011
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  7. Stan

    Stan Resident Dumbass

    Location:
    Colorado
    OS, drivers, Avast, Office, Firefox, then update everything.

    I always struggle a bit with drivers.
     
    Stan, Oct 16, 2011
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  8. greywolf

    greywolf Slightly Tilted

    ZoneAlarm first and foremost,
    Firefox
    Thunderbird
    CCleaner
    Spybot Search & Destroy
    AdAware
     
    greywolf, Oct 16, 2011
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  9. Redlemon

    Redlemon Getting Tilted

    Location:
    New England
    For OS X:
    Chrome
    the Apple iLife package
    LibreOffice ('cause I'm cheap, and don't have much in the way of needs in an office package)
    CrashPlan (to keep everything backed up remotely)
    CarbonCopyCloner (to occasionally back up locally)
    things to play with audio and video (VLC, Handbrake, MPEGStreamclip, Audacity, MPlayerX, Vox, scripts from Doug's Applescripts for iTunes, Audio Hijack Pro, iTiVo, pyTiVoX)
     
    Redlemon, Oct 16, 2011
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  10. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    Roughly in this order - may vary some after the the firewall/antivirus
    Drivers
    Firewall/Antivirus
    Opera and Firefox (the Microsoft browser is high on my "dislike with a strong passion" list)
    Openoffice.org
    Utilities - 7-Zip/Irfanview/etc
    Foobar20000
    GIMP
    Soundforge 6.0d - yes it is an old Sonic Foundry build but I paid good money for it and have no compelling reason to upgrade.
    and so on and so on..........................

    I was using Filezilla for years but have switched to FireFTP in firefox. That and Netflix streaming are the main reasons I open Firefox. Opera works with streaming if you change the browser identification to anything else, but I still give that job to Firefox.
     
    Speed_Gibson, Oct 16, 2011
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  11. Bear Cub

    Bear Cub Goes down smooth.

    Location:
    At the bar, eyeing the pretty one.
    Leisure Suit Larry.
     
    Bear Cub, Oct 16, 2011
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  12. Frosstbyte

    Frosstbyte Winter is coming

    Location:
    The North
    That's exactly the order for me, too. Great minds, stan.
     
    Frosstbyte, Oct 16, 2011
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  13. Lordeden

    Lordeden Part of the Problem

    Location:
    Redneckhell, NC
    Updates, MS security essn (avast left a bad taste in my mouth after trying remote uninstall), then chrome. After that it's whatever software I feel like loading. Usually a small video game to play while I install everything else.
     
    Lordeden, Oct 16, 2011
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  14. spindles

    spindles Very Tilted

    Location:
    Sydney, Australia
    ms security essentials
    chrome
    textpad
    beyond compare (a file compare utility)
    tortoise
    eclipse
    skype
     
    spindles, Oct 16, 2011
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  15. snowy

    snowy so kawaii Staff Member

    Symantec Endpoint (free from my university)
    Chrome
    graphics card driver
    World of Warcraft if it's a computer for games, 'cause it can download while I'm setting up other stuff
    Microsoft Office
     
    snowy, Oct 16, 2011
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  16. Willravel

    Willravel Getting Tilted

    Location:
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Windows:
    Avast (just like BG and Stan!)
    Hardware drivers
    Chrome, and extensions like Disconnect, Google Docs, Flashblock, and iReader
    InDesign, Photoshop, AfterEffects CS5
    MS Office, begrudgingly
    Finale 2011
    iTunes
    VLC

    Mac:
    Chrome
    VLC
    Jam Packs for Garageband/Logic
    iWork
    Maybe CS5, depending on the computer (Mac mini? No. MBP? Oh yeah.)
     
    Willravel, Oct 17, 2011
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  17. Shadowex3

    Shadowex3 Very Tilted

    I got spybot+Malwarebytes on the thing and then I hit up Ninite to install basically everything I use at once.
     
    Shadowex3, Oct 17, 2011
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  18. Smackre

    Smackre Vertical

    Location:
    Ghutt, Ohio
    Windows.
    Winzip.
    Some type of iso mounting software.
    Open office
    Chrome or firefox
    Thunderbird
    AVG free.
    If its for me. Autocad and Inventor.
     
    Smackre, Oct 17, 2011
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  19. Leto

    Leto Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Toronto
    so Avast is good? I installed it on my old XP Toshiba Satallite (Celeron) and it seems to have ground my processing to a halt. So much so that the first thing I do after a 15 minute boot period (ostensibly so Avast can obtain updates) is to turn off the live monitoring.

    It's that or wait for minutes while navigating around the web. I installed Avast over AVG thinking it would be better.
     
    Leto, Oct 17, 2011
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  20. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    I used to have AVG, but it was doing something annoying and I removed it, replacing it with Avast. Haven't noticed anything wrong with it.
     
    Baraka_Guru, Oct 17, 2011
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