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
What utilities do you use?
- J-Dub
- Posts: 69
- Joined: Sat Apr 22, 2006 19:00
- Location: Illinois
- Contact:
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
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
- Hobbs
- Posts: 61
- Joined: Sun Aug 07, 2005 22:15
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
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
- J-Dub
- Posts: 69
- Joined: Sat Apr 22, 2006 19:00
- Location: Illinois
- Contact:
Re: What utilities do you use?
Oh sweet. I didn't know Windows Explorer could do FTP. I'm gonna use that now.MartinHowe wrote:FTP/Copy/Move: Windows Explorer

- chaoscentral
- Posts: 113
- Joined: Tue Aug 30, 2005 14:08
- Location: E1M1
- Contact:
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
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