What utilities do you use?

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by chaoscentral » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:22

Well in Vista I use

Browser: IE7
Email: Windows Mail
FTP/Copy/Move: Windows Explorer
Music/Video: WMP11
DVD: WMP11
Graphic editor: N/A
Sound editor: MS Sound Recorder / Audacity
CD Burning: MS CDBurn
IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Messenger: AIM
Anti Virus: N/A
Registry maintenance: Regedit
Adware/Spybots: Windows Defender
Defragmentation: MSDefrag

Re: What utilities do you use?

by J-Dub » Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:19

MartinHowe wrote:FTP/Copy/Move: Windows Explorer
Oh sweet. I didn't know Windows Explorer could do FTP. I'm gonna use that now. :D

by Hobbs » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:16

Browser: Mozilla Firefox 2.0 RC1
E-mail: Thunderbird (GMail and Uni mail)
FTP: ftp (you cant get much better than the command line)
BitTorrent: uTorrent
Music: Winamp 2.95 + a slew of in_ plugins.
Video: Media Player Classic + ffdshow + directshow ogg vorbis filter
CD/DVD Burning: Alcohol 120%, Windows Explorer
Code Development: Visual Studio 2005
Graphics Editing: Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2
Audio Editing: Adobe Audition 2.0 (stable enough for me), Project 5 v2, Reason
IRC Client: X-Chat
Antivirus: McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i
Defragmentation: DIRMS

by J-Dub » Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:55

Browser: Internet Explorer 7
E-mail: Outlook Express, Hotmail
FTP: WS_FTP
Bit torrent: Bitlord
Peer To Peer: Shareaza
Music / Video: Windows Media Player
DVD: Windows Media Player
Graphic editor: Photoshop, Picture It!, MSPaint
CD / DVD burning: Nero Burning Rom, Windows Media Player, cdrecord.exe for DC games
IDE: Visual Studio 2003 / 2005
Anti Virus: AVG Free
Adware / spybot removal: Spy Sweeper
Defragmentation: Windows XP

by Bashe » Wed Sep 27, 2006 0:24

Browser: Firefox, latest version
email: AOL mail, Gmail
FTP: don't use FTP, if so then just Explorer, I guess
File Manager: Explorer (I guess?)
BitTorrent: uTorrent
P2P: Shareaza
Music: Winamp
DVD/Video: WMP, Media Player Classic
Video Capture: Fraps
Graphics: Paint, Photoshop 7.0
DVD Burner: none
Anti-Virus: Grisoft AVG Free
Adware: Ad-Aware, Spybot, Hijackthis
Instant Messenger: Trillian, Googletalk, Skype, AIM (old SN only)
IRC: mIRC
Doom Utils: ZDL3 and XWE
Launcher: KwikStrip
Audio Editing: Audacity

Re: What utilities do you use?

by MartinHowe » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:42

Yeah why not:

Browser: FireFox
Email: Outlook Express
Newsgroups: Outlook Express & yProxy
FTP/Copy/Move: Windows Explorer and (if needed) FTPDrive & XXCopy
Music/Video: RealPlayer to record, WMP10 to play
DVD: WinDVD (delivered with my laptop) or RealPlayer
Graphic editor: PhotoStudio 5
Sound editor: MS Sound Recorder / Audacity
CD Burning: MS CDBurn or CDBurnerXP
IDE or IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
SW Dev: MSys, MSVC, MinGW, CygWin
Other Unixy stuff for Windows: GnuWin32, Karl Syring's UnixUtils, Elvis
Messenger: Windows Live Messenger
IRC: VIRC 2
Anti Virus: NIS 2006
Registry maintenance: Regedit
Adware/Spybots: Spybot Search & Destroy / Ad-Aware personal SE
Defragmentation: PerfectDisk 8

by ellmo » Sun Sep 24, 2006 23:32

jallamann wrote:Registry fucker: None. If I need to manually change anything, I'll use regedit.exe
I'm really impressed you can understand that shitload of information that is held there. But there is an enormous portion of obsolete entries even in fresh Windows installation, that just don't really need to be there.
I too never liked programs, which would play with my registry, but Mechanic kickss some major butt. As I run it the first time it killed more than 700 problems, and to my knowledge about 400-500 are in windows since installation.

by jallamann » Sun Sep 24, 2006 20:56

Web browser: SeaMonkey
E-mail: SeaMonkey
IRC: SeaMonkey (until I can arse myself to installing mIRC)
FTP: explorer.exe (works for me)
Torrent: Azureus
Other P2P: none
Usenet: UseNeXT and GrabIt
Media player: Winamp / MPC / VLC (in that order if a file won't work properly with the player)
Graphics editor: Paint Shop Pro 8 on my big rig and PSP XI on my laptop
Music editor: MadTracker / Schism Tracker / Cubase SX
Sound editor: GoldWave

Anti-virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Registry fucker: None. If I need to manually change anything, I'll use regedit.exe
Firewall: None
Adware / spybot removal: None. I know that there are some .exe files that shouldn't be double-clicked.
Defragmentation: I don't usually delete files, so I'll stick with Windows' integrated one.

by Alter » Sun Sep 24, 2006 16:13

Browser:Mozilla firefox
e-mail:just web e-mail
FTP:Total commander
Bit torrent:ABC(This sucker eats many memory so i don't recommend it for comps with less ram)
Peer to peer:None
Music / video:Winamp for music,and BSplayer for videos
CD/DVD Burning:Nero or alcohol 120%
IRC:Mirc
Antivirus+firewall:ewido anti-malware

by Paul » Sun Sep 24, 2006 15:58

Browser: Netscape 7.0 though I prefer Firefox
e-mail: Same as above..
FTP / copying / moving files: FTP Commander and FileZilla
Bit torrent: I don't use them..
Audio editing: Goldwave, Nero Wave Editor
Audio listening: Winamp 5.2
Video Viewing: Real Player (da thing), Vplayer, Quick Time
Audio encoder: DB Power Amp
Graphic editor: Paint Shop Pro 7, Animation Shop 5
3D CG: Gmax
CD / DVD burning: Nero Burning
*messenger: MiRC, ICQ 5.1
anti Virus: Norton .. 2002 (^_^)
adware / spybot removal: Ad-Aware and Autoruns
Firewall: Kerio Personal Firewall latest
Preferred TXT Editor: Notepad

Doom Utils: Doom Builder, XWE, Whacked 2

by Chronoteeth » Sat Sep 23, 2006 21:58

Browser: Firefox + NoScript/google plug in
E-Mail: Thunderbird (though it doesn't matter, I can't get on the bloody thing anyways)
FTP/copy/moving: I don't remember the name, but I only really use it to upload porn onto kat's site. :|

Music/video: Modtracker (for tracking), XMPlay (for listening)
DVD: stock (don't watch DVDs on my PC)
Video capture: fraps
Graphic editor: mspaint, PSP 9, PS 7
DE: N/A
Messenger: Googletalk/skype/YIM/ventrilo/teamspeak
IRC: mIRC
Anti Virus: Norton (:|), never get one though
Registry: NEVER EVER EVER
Adware: Spybot
Defragment: Disk defragment?

Re: What utilities do you use?

by BioHazard » Sat Sep 23, 2006 18:40

Browser: Firefox plus all my nifty plugins
e-mail: Thunderbird plus my nifty plugins
FTP / copying / moving files: ftp, cp and mv
Bit torrent: Whatever "emerge bittorrent" gave me
Music / Video: XMMS and VLC with ~x86 branch codec packs
DVD: VLC
Video Capture: $ /dev/video0 > /media/vid.mpg
Graphic editor: GIMP :( :( :( :(
Development environment: SciTE, GCC and make
messenger: GAIM
IRC: X-Chat (blech)

and now comes the maintenance part:
anti Virus: Virus?
Registry maintenance: Registry?
adware / spybot removal: Common sense
defragmentation: ext3 needs no defragmentation foo! (hardly ever anyway)

by grubber » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:48

Internet: FireFox (SwiftFox), ThunderBird, gFTP, GAIM, X-Chat, MLDonkey
Programming: Bluefish
Graphics: GIMP, InkScape
Sound & Video: XMMS, MPlayer, AviDemux, K3b
Emulators: QEMU, DosEmu, Wine
GNOME & accesories
etc. (I can't remember)

Re: What utilities do you use?

by Jimmy » Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:17

Browser: Internet Explorer 6
e-mail: Outlook Express
FTP / copying / moving files: :?:
Bit torrent: :?:
Peer To Peer: :?:
Music / Video: Windows Media Player 10
DVD: PowerDVD
Video Capture: Logitech Image Studio
Video / Audio compression, cutting and merging: :?:
Graphic editor: Paint Shop Pro 5
CD / DVD burning: Nero Burning Rom
Integrated development environment or IDE: :?:
Messenger: Windows Live Messenger
IRC: :?:

Anti Virus: AVG Free Edition
Registry maintenance: Registry Mechanic
Adware/Spybot Removal: Pop-up Blocker, ZoneAlarm
Defragmentation: :?:

:thumb:

by ellmo » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:48

Silver Sonic wrote:Burner: ...any good ones? :P
Ashampoo is much more reliable, easy to use and I could even say - faster - than Nero Burning Rom. I have Ashampoo 5 which is an old, abandonwared version I was given free with a PC magazine.
Never fooked up a CD / DVD for me, while Nero killed a lot.

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