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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
Launchy: http://www.launchy.net/
Process monitor: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

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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