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Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs
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melrosh1273Freeware reviews and downloads, featuring the coolest, best free software
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I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that I had to re-install all the essential software that I use. It also presented an opportunity to write a posting about how you can outfit your computer with all the essential (and non-essential) software you need using strictly 100% freeware and/or open source titles.
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preserve your data when you want to wipe your system clean
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Unstoppable copier makes the process of moving large numbers of files easy because you can set it up and leave and be certain that the copying process will not be interrupted by pointless Windows dialogs
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DriverMax will backup all of your drivers locally and can optionally restore them for you.
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keep a record of all the product keys for the Microsoft products that are on my system, including Windows XP and Office
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installed the Microsoft .NET framework and the latest Java RTE
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DriveImage XML: used this program to create an image of my freshly clean installed hard drive
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Spyware Terminator: provides very good real-time protection against spyware/malware. For system scans it also integrates the open source ClamAV virus killer, which it also auto updates.
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According to Matousec.com’s latest firewall ratings, Comodo gets the highest overall firewall score as well as the highest anti-leak protection
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In general I do not like to have any of my data stored in the primary (C:) partition, and I use this program to switch many of Windows’ special folders (i.e. My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Favorites, and the Desktop itself) from their default locations to a new location on the secondary partition. Having no data on the primary partition means that I can create images of my hard drive with DriveImage XML (#7 above) and restore them at will at any point without having to worry about lost data.
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Forcevision Image Viewer: this is a very competent and straightforward free image viewer.
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(Another good alternative: Faststone Image Viewer)
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CDBurnerXP 4: is the free program I use to burn CDs and DVDs; it is a full featured CD/DVD burning program that can burn audio CDs, copy CDs/DVDs, burn/convert ISOs images, and handle a large variety of formats (including Double layer DVDs, Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs).
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JKDefrag has recently been tested and found to be the best amongst x different defragmentation programs
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Shock Sticker: a really nice desktop ’sticky notes’ program that provides rich text editing and minimizing notes to floating icon (which is why I like it).
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GOM Media Player: a fantastic player that plays DVDs as well as video formats, including Real Media, Quicktime, DivX, Xvid and FLV. Whats is really nice about this program is that it is self-contained and uses all internal codecs
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CodecInstaller, an excellent program that can identify, download, and install the codecs needed to play any media file (regardless of the player you are using)
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MP3gain: this program can analyze a group of MP3s and determine the average volume for each, and then raise and/or lower the volume of the files in order to “normalize” them (such that volume differences that might occur when one song transitions to another largely disappear). The cool thing is that it does this without re-encoding the files and its intervention is reversible.
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Local Website Archive: is a program that saves individual webpages locally on your hard drive
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Revo Uninstaller: my uninstaller of choice, Revo Uninstaller will uninstall a program and then look for any files and/or registry entries that were left behind by the program’s uninstaller
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ZSoft Uninstaller; this one will not uninstall programs as thoroughly as Revo does, but on the other hand will not erroneously remove registry entries or files that should be left alone.
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Revo Uninstaller (#39 above) provides a built in startup programs manager as well.
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PDF-XChange Viewer: a very nice PDF reader that allows for form filling as well as annotation and adding notes.
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Flashfolder: an explorer extension that adds user-defined favorites folders (and recent folders) to Windows’ open/save dialogs.
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JOCR: can snap any area of the screen (or simply load an image) and provide instant (and excellent) optical character recognition.
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now that I have my system decked out with all the software that I use, I create another image with DriveImage XML so that I have 2 images; one that contains Windows XP clean installed with drivers, and one with all the software that I use.
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Autoruns
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Gadwin PrintScreen
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NetMeter from mMetal MAchine http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/index.php?PHPSESSID=d28a0a3faf0a256097b5aa331ebfa981&action=tpmod;dl=get14
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The first thing you should install is InstallPad (http://www.installpad.com/). Then you can use it to install the rest.
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The first thing I would recommend to anyone who was going to re-install Windows is to first create an installation disk with the latest service pack and any additional hot fixes integrated into it. You can do this manually (msfn.org has a guide at http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/2/) or use a program such as nLite (nliteos.com) or XP-ISO-Builder (http://www.winfuture.de/xpisobuilder3_en), or some combination
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