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Windows installation guide with must-have programs
Programs that belong on every windows PC i install.
A good starting point for easily finding and installing great applications is http://ninite.com/
Tools
- Archiving: Winrar (7ZIP)
- Remote control: RealVNC (TightVNC)
- Drive encryption: Truecrypt
- Desktop Layout: Icon Keeper
- Multipage printing: Fineprint
- Windows tweaking: tweakui
- Drive imaging: Clonezilla (Acronis trueimage)
- CD/DVD Burning: imgburn (Nero)
- CD Emulator:
- Antivirus: Antivir
- Multimonitor: dexpot
- Drive usage: windirstat
- File manager: Total Commander (idoswin_free)
- Taskbar clock: tclockex
- Fan control: Speedfan
- Ninite app pack installer: http://ninite.com/makeuseof
Applications
- PDF creation: Adobe acrobat (FreePDF)
- PDF viewer/editor: PDF-xchange-viewer
- Image processing: Adobe photoshop (Gimp)
- Office: OpenOffice (Microsoft Office 2003)
Internet
- Browser: Firefox (Opera)
- Download manager: downthemall
- Mail client: Thunderbird
- FTP: Filezilla
- IP telephony: Skype
- SSH: Putty
Multimedia
- Image viewer: irfanview+xnview
- Video playback: vlc + media player classic
- Video cutting: VideoRedo
- Stream downloader: streamdown
Science
- Universal editor: gvim
- Binary file editor/decoder: 010 editor
- Unix tools: cygwin
- Math software: Maple (Mathematica)
- Statistics: SPSS (R + Rcmdr)
- TeX Editor: Gvim (MikTex)
- Tex software: miktex
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