First Ten Programs on New Install?

reddigitaldragon asks: "Some people re-install once a year, but if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least once a month. After the OS is in, then come the favorite/must have/most used programs to install. My first installations for Windows (I use it; get over it): Trillian, Winrar, Firefox, Winamp, SmartFTP, Azureus, NMap, GKrellM, PowerDVD. What are your First 10 installed programs?" What are the first 10 programs you would install on a Windows machine? How about for a Unix machine?

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[devphil]

the Cygwin installer.

After Os X install

[seven5]

Heres an Os X user's list

• Transmit
• SubEthaEdit
• NetNewsWire Lite
• Desktop Manager
• Clipboard Sharing
• iTerm
• iKey
• VLC
• blank
• blank

That was actually hard. So much comes with Os X, that it REALLY is a great Os right out of the box. Anything else at the end of the list is just little apps that really aren't important. Also, i just don't format as much as i used to when i was on Windows, which was a little more conservative than the poster at about every 3 months.

Re:My First 10...

[skilef]

well you're right, windows does require a lot of tweaking before I even get around to installing apps...

Contents of my install "thumb" drive.

[OgGreeb]

I keep a 250MB USB flash drive loaded with these installers for when I go to my friends and families' houses and have to fix their computers. This, plus a Bart's PE WinXP boot disk and a SP1-slipstreamed XP install disk pretty much can get me to the point of pulling down anything else I need from the Internet. Which ten are most important depends on the computer and the person I'm helping.

• Adobe Acrobat Reader 6
• AIM 5.5
• DirectX 9
• DiVX codec
• D-Link DWL-122 WLAN drivers for the "thumb" wireless LAN adapter I also carry.
• ITunes 4.21 (includes QuickTime install). QCD and/or Winamp 5.
• Java RE
• LimeWire
• McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.01. I update the SuperDAT file once a month at least.
• Lavasoft Ad-Aware 6
• Mozilla Firefox
• Nero 5
• PuTTY and WinSCP
• Macromedia Shockwave
• Timbuktu Pro
• TimeRC 3.0
• Tweak UI powertoy
• WCPUID
• WinZip 9
• Zone Alarm (free version(
• As many of the MS hotfixes as can fit. Learning how to slip-stream these would be useful, but I would have to burn a new disk every month to keep up.

If I can get a bigger thumb drive, I would add PowerDVD, the XP SP1, all the hotfixes, Audiograbber, Mozilla Thunderbird, a VNC client and server, Retrospect Desktop and one game. I'd like to add Partition Magic and Ghost but can't figure out how to use it and stay legal under the licensing. I will also add an OpenOffice disk when I get a moment.

If I encounter Win9x I make them upgrade before I will help them (I'll perform the upgrade if they ask.) I make them pay for the licenses for anything I use though. I also make sure they have a backup protocol and run at least one backup so I don't have to repeat my work.