Whether you bought a new PC or are re-imaging an old one, there’s always those few pieces of software that you must have on every computer, the essentials when building a Windows machine. Things like plug-Ins, browsers and pdf readers. I thought it’d be useful to share my list of must have installs that I use on all of my Windows builds. I find it’s always easier to get them out of the way in the beginning, than give the machine back to someone and then having to help them install it remotely.
- Firefox – Browser
- Adobe Flash – Flash Plug-In
- Adobe Reader – .pdf Reader
- 7Zip – .zip, .rar, .7zip file compression utility
- WinDirStat – Hard drive space visual aid
- VLC – Media Player
- DIVX – Codecs
- OpenOffice.org – word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.
- PDF Forge – Print anything to .pdf format
- Bit Torrent – Torrent downloader
- Avast Free(If no A/V solution present) – Anti-Virus
- Rainmeter – Desktop Enhancement(Widgets)
- Fences – Icon Management