Your PC Essentials
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This is a poignant question. When I was in third year I believe I had a lab proposal due on a Saturday midnight. I'd spent a good week working on it and had gotten the damn thing done. I was playing some KOTOR 2 before giving the proposal a final check and then e-mailing it in. As I'm playing the HD begins to make weird noises. Concerned, I power down the computer and when I boot it back up it can't find the OS. Getting somewhat more concerned, I open up the case and take a look. The HD's discs have cracked. FUCK! 4 pm on a Saturday, I get out of the house at just under the speed of light jump on a bus downtown and spend the next hour running around trying to locate a store that can sell me a compatible HD. Finally get one and dash back home. Install everything again, since my network card doesn't work yet, I break into one of my roommates' room and proceed to download the drivers and copy them onto their flash drive so I can install it. 7pm now, bang off the proposal which had taken me most a week to write in about three hours and hand that ***** in. VICTORY DANCE!
Absolute gotta haves...
Microsoft Office 2000
Essential codecs
Adobe Acrobat
After that, things that I need but not too badly...
AVG
Adobe Photoshop
Win Ace Archiver
Then things I like to have...
Audacity
Skype
VLC Media Player
The REALLY old version of Windows Media Player
Veoh
DivX
CCleaner
Only after that do I start throwing on games.
Absolute gotta haves...
Microsoft Office 2000
Essential codecs
Adobe Acrobat
After that, things that I need but not too badly...
AVG
Adobe Photoshop
Win Ace Archiver
Then things I like to have...
Audacity
Skype
VLC Media Player
The REALLY old version of Windows Media Player
Veoh
DivX
CCleaner
Only after that do I start throwing on games.
I actually have a folder I burn to disc now and then called Phoenix.
Whenever stuff dies or needs a format this disc has
winrar
winzip
wmp
avs dvd player
a tonne of video codecs
dx 10
flash
quicktime
adobe acrobat
avg
ad-aware
fraps
msn
aim/aol
hot keyz
sound card drivers
audio tools
and essentially, every essential prog I use :3
Whenever stuff dies or needs a format this disc has
winrar
winzip
wmp
avs dvd player
a tonne of video codecs
dx 10
flash
quicktime
adobe acrobat
avg
ad-aware
fraps
msn
aim/aol
hot keyz
sound card drivers
audio tools
and essentially, every essential prog I use :3
How do you lose everything, don't you people backup?
I'd simply install a backed up image of how my computer was... however, when I come to do fresh installs I tend to start with
Drivers (for obvious reasons),
Network security (more obvious reasons),
and then after the expected restart Vlan player so I can watch stuff while installing the rest of the gubbins.
I'd simply install a backed up image of how my computer was... however, when I come to do fresh installs I tend to start with
Drivers (for obvious reasons),
Network security (more obvious reasons),
and then after the expected restart Vlan player so I can watch stuff while installing the rest of the gubbins.
AVG
Firefox
Rivatuner (since my SLI'd 8800GT's love to overheat when the fans aren't at 100%)
----------- First 3, then...
Spybot S&D
Plethora of Drivers for hardware
Daemon Tools Lite
7zip
and then on to the games... (Office is a distant last, usually not until I need it)
Firefox
Rivatuner (since my SLI'd 8800GT's love to overheat when the fans aren't at 100%)
----------- First 3, then...
Spybot S&D
Plethora of Drivers for hardware
Daemon Tools Lite
7zip
and then on to the games... (Office is a distant last, usually not until I need it)