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Essential Software
09-19-2009, 02:00 AM
Post: #1
Essential Software
Here I am again for you to provide latest trend software:

Belarc Advisor
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
The Belarc Advisor builds a detailed profile of your installed software and hardware, missing Microsoft hotfixes, anti-virus status, CIS (Center for Internet Security) benchmarks, and displays the results in your Web browser. All of your PC profile information is kept private on your PC and is not sent to any web server.

Core Temp
http://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/
Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature. The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in a each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU.

CPU-Z
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system including CPU, RAM and Motherboard.

Everest Home Edition
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
Not in development anymore, so not as good as it could be. But still good if you need to check out your pc info like spec and speeds.

GPU-Z
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/SysInfo/GPU-Z/
GPU-Z is a lightweight utility designed to give you all information about your video card and GPU.

Intel Thermal Analysis Tool
http://www.techpowerup.com/download...lysis_Tool.html
Intels TAT is a temperature monitoring tool for Intel CPU's. It can also simulate a work load so you can accurately gauge load temperatures.

Process Explorer
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sy...ssExplorer.mspx
The one, the only. Better than task manager by miles.
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes are opened or loaded. The window shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts.

Real Temp
http://www.techpowerup.com/realtemp
Real Temp is a temperature monitoring program designed for all Intel single Core, Dual Core, Quad Core and Core i7 processors. Each core on these processors has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports temperature data relative to TJMax which is the safe maximum operating core temperature for the CPU. As your CPU heats up, your Distance to TJMax will decrease. If it reaches zero, your processor will start to thermal throttle or slow down so maximizing your distance away from TJMax will help your computer run at full speed and more reliably too.

Sisoftware Sandra Lite
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.h...3264&langx=en&a
A system information/Benckmarking tool.
System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.
It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCIe, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Speedfan
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
SpeedFan is a freeware program that monitors voltages, fan speeds and temperatures in computers with hardware monitor chips. SpeedFan can even access S.M.A.R.T. info for Hard Disks that support this feature and show hard disk temperatures and much more.


System Tools

Bart's PE bootable live windows CD/DVD
http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Bart's PE Builder helps you build a "BartPE" (Bart Preinstalled Environment) bootable Windows CD-Rom or DVD from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD, very suitable for PC maintenance tasks.
It will give you a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface (800x600) and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support. Very handy for burn-in testing systems with no OS, rescuing files to a network share, virus scan and so on.
This will replace any Dos bootdisk in no time!

Bootdisks
http://www.bootdisk.com/
Download bootdisks for just about everything, Including the one you need to have to flash a Bios.

Ccleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less than a second to run) and contains NO Spyware or Adware!
Note: During the install process you get the option to install the Yahoo Toolbar. Untick the box!

Memtest
http://www.memtest.org/
Based on the well-known original memtest86 written by Chris Brady, memtest86+ is a port by some members of the x86-secret team. Our goal is to provide an up-to-date and completly reliable version of this software tool aimed at memory failures detection.
Runs from floppy, cd or usb drive

Prime95
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm
A CPU Stress test, ideal for checking if your overclock is stable.

Ultimate Boot CD
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Ultimate Boot CD consolidates as many diagnostic tools as possible into one bootable CD and is completely free for the download.


Video Drivers

Nvidia Drivers
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
For latest graphics drivers straight from the Nvidia website.

ATI Drivers
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
For latest graphics drivers straight from the ATI website.

Omega Drivers
http://www.omegadrivers.net/
The purpose of the Omega Drivers is to provide gamers with an alternate set of drivers, ones that have more options and features than the original sets. The drivers contain optimizations, extra features (like OC capabilities), more resolutions and internal tweaks that can give them the edge in a gaming environment over the normal drivers, which are often tailored for synthetic benchmarks. All Omega driver sets are tested (unless noted) by myself in my own pc or in an alternate PC (in the case of the Nvidia drivers) to ensure maximum compatibility and reliability.
Note: Nvidia drivers on hold at time of typing


Web Browsers

Mozilla Firefox.
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/
Internet Explorer (IE) is a competent enough browser but it has become such a target for malicious exploits that it is now a major security risk. There are several excellent alternatives with Mozilla Firefox a solid first choice. It's safer than IE, so safe in fact that many users have reported no spyware infections since they started using the product. It's also browses a tad faster than IE, is very stable and is more standards compliant. The program loads a little slower than IE but once running, it positively zips along. With tabbed browsing and over 600 free extensions that allow you to customize your experience, it provides most users with a major surfing upgrade.

Opera
http://www.opera.com/
Another Alternative to Internet Explorer is Opera. It's a fast, fun and easy way to browse the Web. Opera 9 comes loaded with the tools to keep you productive and safe. Try it today, it's absolutely free!


Zip Utility

TUGZip
http://www.tugzip.com/
TUGZip is a powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
Supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives.
Supports BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images.
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07-17-2010, 03:27 PM
Post: #2
RE: Essential Software
Of all the essential software, because I like Irfanview free and easy to install. It integrates seamlessly with the operating system (Windows) and allows you to edit and batch convert / rename image or any other media quickly and easily, It has the basic functions of image editing. This software displays the most media types, including sovereign wealth funds and other video formats, There are a good variety of plug-ins that extend the software.
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12-05-2010, 01:02 AM
Post: #3
RE: Essential Software
In a General, The Computer System require a Some Essential Software.Which is Listed Below.

1. Anti-virus
2. Nero
3. Audio & Video Player
4. Back Up Software
5. Microsoft Office
6. Browser(If Other required)
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12-29-2010, 02:10 PM
Post: #4
RE: Essential Software
Essential Software list is very nice. Antivirus all software, Microsoft office edition versions, graphics related applications are very essential software for computer users. Software with plug in links are good to work with easily.
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01-28-2011, 05:48 PM
Post: #5
RE: Essential Software
In essential software security is the main point for our system so we should try to use the best anti virus softwares to get rid of any type of cashes,viruses in our system!!
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02-24-2011, 01:44 PM (This post was last modified: 02-24-2011 01:44 PM by sarahjack.)
Post: #6
RE: Essential Software
The essential software is such a best and most of the point of any system. You must have to use best antivirus software of any types of viruses, it is such a best and superb collection of essential softwares list.
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10-14-2011, 10:50 AM (This post was last modified: 10-14-2011 10:55 AM by shackjeck.)
Post: #7
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The software is best to the user. I like Fire Fox then Internet explorer because it's very helpful in Internet access because it have well and good speed to uploading any web pages.Compair other site it have good functionality and day by day update version are available in network.
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07-24-2012, 05:50 PM
Post: #8
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that is a good list of essential software. Some of them were new to me but for sure its good.
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08-31-2012, 06:45 AM
Post: #9
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Great post by Mokash.All about need for PC protection and flexible uses.
Thanks for this interesting and useful share.
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11-25-2014, 11:18 AM
Post: #10
Essential Software
I know, sometimes OSS are not as good commercial software. But the article was interesting for me, as a brief approximation to openSource for translators.

I think OSS today is better than a few years ago..

Te quiero no por quien eres, sino por quien soy cuando estoy contigo
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