Reinstalling computer

I – or should I say my ol’ faithful lappy – finally caved in. It’s something about windows installations that makes them age with time. Sure, I’m not free of blame, having installed thisses and thattes, but I have ran antivirus software and disk defragmenters and even uninstalled apps I don’t need and shut down servives that I seriously do not need. Whatever.

Here we are, 2009, and a new 2.5″ IDE hdd of 320GB is less than 1kkr. I got one and after some deliberation I opted for windows7 with Fedore Core as a close runner up.

So what did I install before the computer got productive?

The puropse of my machine is to connect to work, deveop some hobby projects of my own, write documents and such. Nothing out of the oedinary, really.

Work related:

* MS Office – Commercial word processor etc.
* Visual Studio – Commercial development environment.
* SqlServer Express 2008 – Database backend
* Tortoise -[free] Splendid windows explorer integrated client to subversion
* CCTray – Client monitor for CruiseControl.Net
* BeyondCompare – [commercial]File comparison tool.

Neat utilities:

* Notepad++ – Free excellent text editor with color coding for lots of syntaxes.
*Foxit Reader – Free fast PDF-reader.
* Process Explorer – Free task manager replacement.
* 7Zip – Free multi format compression handler.
* ImgBurn – Free CD/DVD burner with ISO support.
Internet

* Putty – Free ssh client.
* Firefox – Free internet browser
* Chrome – Free internet browser
* Skype - Free chat and phone client.

Just for fun

* Spotify – Excellent music client.
* Flash – For games and stuff in the browser.
* VLC – Free media player, supports most formats.
* Filezilla – Free graphical ftp client.

That’s most of the  initial cut of installations.

There are a few things left to install:

* 4Dos – The command shell microsoft never made.
* CdEx – Free audio ripper.
* CygWin – Free Linux utils for windows,

Have fun. Let me know if you think I missed any useful tool!

–Jesper