Must have programs list

[ugenn]

Service Pack 2 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=049c9dbe-3b8e-4f30-8245-9e368d3cdb5a&displaylang=en)

Opera (http://www.opera.com/)

Shareaza (http://www.shareaza.com/)

Miranda (http://www.miranda-im.org/)

Putty, Psftp, scp, puttykeygen (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/)

Platform SDK (http://msdn.microsoft.com/)

DirectX (https://msdn.microsoft.com/directx/)

Sysinternals (Filemon, Regmon, Process Explorer) (http://www.sysinternals.com/)

GCC / Mingw32 (http://gcc.gnu.org/)

Cygnus Hex Editor (http://www.softcircuits.com/)

Winzip (http://www.winzip.com/)

Nero (http://www.nero.com/en/index.html)

Goldwave (http://www.goldwave.com/)

DivX (http://www.divx.com/)

TMPEGEnc (http://www.tmpgenc.net/)

WinAmp (http://www.winamp.com/)

Adobe Acrobat Reader (http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/alternate.html)

Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org)

NeoRageX (see Agozer's sig)

Gens (http://gens.consolemul.com/)

ZSNES (http://www.ipherswipsite.com/zsnes/)

MAME (http://www.mame.net/)

Tom's Root Boot Linux (http://www.toms.net/rb/)

Knoppix Live CD (http://www.knoppix.org/)

GNU stuff (http://www.gnu.org/)

KDE (http://www.kde.org/)

X.org (http://www.x.org/)

Linux (http://www.kernel.org/)

Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/)

MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/)

Samba (http://www.samba.org/)

Open SSH (http://www.openssh.org/)

Perl (http://www.perl.org/)

PHP (http://www.php.net/)

gngeo (http://m.peponas.free.fr/gngeo/)

Edited October 19, 2004 by ugenn

[random guy]

Come to think of it, if you're going to be downloading alot of videos from the net, the GSpot codec Information Appliance is a must ( http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ ) It's great for scanning videos and finding out which codec(s) they were encoded in, and whether or not you have a compatible codec installed.

[kaioshade]

Record Now DX (I prefer this to Nero)

 

DVD Decrypter (Best for burning any kind of standard image, and its freeware)

 

Pan Usenet Reader (best freeware newsreader out there)

 

DVD Shrink

 

Quick PAR (If you download from usenet, this is a must have)

 

Filezilla (very good open source ftp client)

[emsley]

dont forget windows washer.

search fosi on google you will get a freebie.

[Gryph]

A cool program is CCleaner. It cleans things.

[ugenn]

So does format and fdisk.