Share your system set-up and fav proggys

[Money Shot]

Hi all, I'm always interested in what other people are running and what favorite softs they use a lot, so post yours here please.

 

I'll start with my own:

 

PC Setup:

HP Elitebook 8460p Laptop

Intel core i7 processor -2.7ghz

6gb DDR3 ram (soon to upgrade to max of 16)

W7 Pro 64 bit

500GB HDD

Ran to a 24" HD flatscreen

Separate logitech keyboard

Wireless Logitec mouse

20Gbs Fiber Optic connection

 

My favorite place to DL free proggys:

http://www.snapfiles.com

 

Favorite free proggys:

*Wise Registry Cleaner

http://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-registry-cleaner.html

 

*Used firefox as my browser for years until it became bloated...finally sold my soul to google and DL'd Chrome Browser a few years ago....love it, especially how it backs up all your bookmarks, settings, and extensions to your google account.

 

*IMAP Email Client:

Mozilla Thunderbird (something mozilla is still doing right)

 

*Microsoft Security Essentials for my AV

 

*iObit Smart Defrag:

http://www.iobit.com/en/iobitsmartdefrag.php

 

*iObit Uninstaller:

http://www.iobit.com/en/advanceduninstaller.php

 

*Foxit PDF Reader:

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/

 

*AnVir Task Manager Free: Best task manager I've found. Manage startups, services and more)

http://www.anvir.com/

 

*KeePass Password Safe: (I use this mostly as a backup to RoboForm, is great for storing program serialz/keys

http://keepass.info/

 

*Zoner Photo Studio 14 (free version if you can find it) for photo management

 

*GFI Backup freeware: (I use this to make a 1:1 uncompressed backup of all my important stuff to my portable Hitachi 500gb HDD)

http://gfi-backup.en.softonic.com/

 

Paragon Backup and Recovery (system imaging)

https://www.paragon-software.com/free/

 

*Convert: (Use it to convert units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy, and many others)

http://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/

 

 

Paid Programs I use:

 

*RoboForm Password manager/form filler. (Best $20 I've ever spent on software. Been using it for years and love it...all my site passwords are uber strong, just remember one master password. I use the desktop version, where all info is stored on my PC locally. They have RoboForm everywhere, which stores all your data on their secure servers, but I use the desktop version...just don't trust all my data sitting on a server somewhere which is obviously a hackers goldmine and target. They have a free version which holds 10 passwords and also a portable USB version. Highly recommended)

http://www.roboform.com

 

*Corel Paint Shop Pro 10 (poor man's version of photoshop......mine is several years old but still works great. ...can make some really nice chops with it that will rival photoshop)

http://www.paintshoppro.com/en/products/paintshop-pro/standard/?currency=en-US&sourceid=psp8-xx-ppc_brkws&promo=psp8-xx-ppc_brkws&gclid=COHw9Im2m8sCFc8lgQodY8cO7Q

 

Thats about it for now, sure I'll add some more progs as I remember them. Enjoy

 

M$

Edited February 28, 2016 by Money Shot

[Money Shot]

Also I use this for 100GB FREE cloud backup:

https://degoo.com/

[-=HipKat=-]

• CPU Phenom II X4 3.40 GHz 4000 MHz AM3 4 x 512KB Desktop

• Motherboard ASUS MB M4A77TD

• Memory Corsair DDR3 8 gigs

• Storage Twin WD500GB7200RPM

• Graphics GeForce 9800 GT 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

• Operating System Windows 10.1 Pro x64

• Monitor HP F2105/Dell SP2208WFP

• Keyboard Logitech G910

• Mouse Corsair M65

• Headset Kotion Each G2000

• Connection Fibre Optic 100MB

 

I don't use too many free programs anymore BUT I do use some things on a regular basis.

 

System Mechanic (paid) 15 - every morning when I leave for work I run the Program Accelerator which does everything - cleans temp files, registry, realigns programs, optimizes internet and defrags.

 

For music I go to Prsotlopeer and for Movies I use Yify's torrent site

 

For Graphics I have an old cracked version of Adobe Masters Collection 5.5

Edited March 1, 2016 by -=HipKat=-

[Xernicus]

Everybody probably already knows about how I have my machine(s) set up, but I guess it doesn't hurt to share the specs again. ;P

Desktop Specs:

• Mobo: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Rev 5.0
• CPU: AMD FX-8350 @ 4.00GHz
• RAM: 8GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3
• GPU: AMD Radeon R7 250
• HDD1: Seagate "Desktop" HDD, 2TB @ 7200RPM (16 days, 9 hrs of usage)
• HDD2: Seagate "Desktop" HDD, 1TB @ 7200RPM (161 days, 14 hrs of usage)
• OS: Windows 10 Pro

Laptop Specs:

• Lenovo ThinkPad T420s
• CPU: Intel i5-2520M
• RAM: 8GB DDR3, unknown brand
• GPU: Intel HD Graphics 3000 (bypassed using advanced docking station)
• HDD1: HGST 160GB Laptop HDD @ 7200RPM (11 days, 8hrs of usage)
• OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1

Paid Software:

• FL Studio (for music creation)
• Photoshop CC (for photo manipulation and post processing)
• Hard Disk Sentinel (to track HDD health, worth every penny in my book)
• Office 2013 (Because who doesn't need Office)
• Visual Studio 2013 (For application development)
• VMWare Workstation (Hosts my personal virtual server, running Win Server 2012 R2; and for testing software deployment and system configs)
• Wolfram Mathematica (For concept development)
• USBTrace (For debugging USB hardware devices, among other things )
• PingPlotter (For network latency monitoring)
• Quicken (Finances)
• NovaBACKUP (Favorite backup software of all time, previously I used Symantec Backup Exec- what a pain in the ass...)
• WinZip (Hey- it has a place in my heart. Even though Windows XP practically rendered it obsolete)
• Alcohol 120% (Another program that has a place in my heart, used for mounting and creating disc images)
• WinImage (for imaging HDs, writing floppies, you name it)

Free Software:

• NTLite (For creating custom Windows installation images)
• EaseUS Partition Manager (pretty self-explanatory)
• Microsoft Expression Studio 5 (I paid for this years ago, but it's now free. Great free web development studio)
• Microsoft WebMatrix 3 (Successor to Expression Studio)
• Arduino IDE (For my hardware prototyping)
• Paint.NET (For simple JPEG/PNG cropping, editing, and pasting screenshots)
• Notepad++ (Freeware notepad replacement)
• Sublime Text 2 (I like NPP better though...)
• Visual Studio Code (A text editor geared towards application development)
• WhoCrashed (for troubleshooting STOP errors)
• Windows Updates Downloader (For slipsteaming Windows installation discs)
• Maltego Casefile (Intelligence Gathering, network mapping, etc)
• Wireshark (network diagnostics and packet sniffing)
• NetBeans IDE (Programming IDE I use on my laptop)

'Daily' Applications:

• Firefox Browser v44 (Preferred browser on my desktop) You know that thing Chrome can do? Yeah... Mozilla Sync has it covered.
• Opera Browser v35 (Preferred browser on my laptop)
• Microsoft Outlook 2010/2013 for email, calendar, tasks, to-do, etc.
• Windows Defender for AV on my desktop, Microsoft Security Essentials for AV on my laptop
• uTorrent for downloading "Linux Distributions"
• Steam for gaming
• Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection for remotely connecting to my workplace.

[Radoria]

Always wonder what other people are running around here.

 

Computer:

Main: MSI 760GM MicroATX

CPU: AMD FX-4130 Black 3.8GHZ Quad Core

Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600MHZ 8GB

GPU: GeForce 210 1GB

HDD: 2 failing Seagate 1TB drives.. Soon to replace with 1TB WD Black. (That five year warranty sounds nice.)

Monitor: Dell 1440x900

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate

Net: 50MB Cable (That just became available last year.. I live in the sticks.)

 

Utilities:

CPUID HWMonitor (fan speeds, temps, etc.)

Microsoft Network Monitor (Trace data packets.)

Avast Antivirus

TinyWall (Firewall Management)

Spybot S&D (Malware detection/Immunizations.)

Hijack This (Program info/Malware detection.)

Puran Defrag (Better than Windows Disk Defragmenter.)

Dropbox (Data backup. Not much space, but convenient. Good for syncing project/code folders with a symbolic link.)

Winrar (Not free.) (General file compression/Encryption.)

7Zip (Zip format compression is a little more efficient.)

Daemon Tools (Not free) (Image mounting, writing, editing, etc.)

 

Media:

VLC Media Player (Video Player)

Winamp (Music Player)

Firefox (Web Browsing.)

Thunderbird (Mail)

Foxit PDF (Lightweight PDF reader)

Sumatra Reader (Reads everything else. CHM, djvu, etc)

 

Development:

Blender (3D modelling)

GIMP (Free Photoshop)

GraphicsGale Free Edition (Low feature pixel art editor.)

Visual Studio 2015 Community (C/C++)

Netbeans (Java)

IDLE (Python 2.5 and 3.5.)

Notepad++ (Great text editor.)

Minecraft (Not free) (Seriously. Heh. Good for level and terrain design ideas with Carpenter's Blocks. Also a fun way to do Lua scripting with ComputerCraft. All while goofing off.)

 

Music:

FL Studio (Not free) (Also quite a few plugins for it both free and not.)

Tux Guitar (Useful for quickly converting midi to sheet music.)

Sonic Visualizer (Audio Analysis.)

Virtual Audio Cable (Shareware) (Stream audio between different applications.)

AP Tuner (Tuning instruments through mic.)

[Money Shot]

Wow, you guys have some nice setups, makes mine look like it came out of the 90's, lol..... thanks for sharing.

[Xernicus]

Nahhh. If you want 90's I have plenty of 700MHz P3's, 166MHz P1's, 486's...

I rather like these kind of topics, they're a great way to find new software... unless your HD is full. Then it's time to find disk compression software.

[-=HipKat=-]

Always wonder what other people are running around here.

 

Computer:

Main: MSI 760GM MicroATX

CPU: AMD FX-4130 Black 3.8GHZ Quad Core

Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600MHZ 8GB

GPU: GeForce 210 1GB

HDD: 2 failing Seagate 1TB drives.. Soon to replace with 1TB WD Black. (That five year warranty sounds nice.)

Monitor: Dell 1440x900

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate

Net: 50MB Cable (That just became available last year.. I live in the sticks.)

 

Utilities:

CPUID HWMonitor (fan speeds, temps, etc.)

Microsoft Network Monitor (Trace data packets.)

Avast Antivirus

TinyWall (Firewall Management)

Spybot S&D (Malware detection/Immunizations.)

Hijack This (Program info/Malware detection.)

Puran Defrag (Better than Windows Disk Defragmenter.)

Dropbox (Data backup. Not much space, but convenient. Good for syncing project/code folders with a symbolic link.)

Winrar (Not free.) (General file compression/Encryption.)

7Zip (Zip format compression is a little more efficient.)

Daemon Tools (Not free) (Image mounting, writing, editing, etc.)

 

Media:

VLC Media Player (Video Player)

Winamp (Music Player)

Firefox (Web Browsing.)

Thunderbird (Mail)

Foxit PDF (Lightweight PDF reader)

Sumatra Reader (Reads everything else. CHM, djvu, etc)

 

Development:

Blender (3D modelling)

GIMP (Free Photoshop)

GraphicsGale Free Edition (Low feature pixel art editor.)

Visual Studio 2015 Community (C/C++)

Netbeans (Java)

IDLE (Python 2.5 and 3.5.)

Notepad++ (Great text editor.)

Minecraft (Not free) (Seriously. Heh. Good for level and terrain design ideas with Carpenter's Blocks. Also a fun way to do Lua scripting with ComputerCraft. All while goofing off.)

 

Music:

FL Studio (Not free) (Also quite a few plugins for it both free and not.)

Tux Guitar (Useful for quickly converting midi to sheet music.)

Sonic Visualizer (Audio Analysis.)

Virtual Audio Cable (Shareware) (Stream audio between different applications.)

AP Tuner (Tuning instruments through mic.)

With Win 7, you do not all those utilities.

I'd dump Avast, SPybot, Hijack This and Tniy Wall.

 

Windows Defender and Firewall are fine.

 

Spybot stopped being supported years ago

[Radoria]

Spybot is still supported. Definition updates and stuff are ongoing. Forums are very much alive too.

 

TinyWall uses Windows Firewall features. Just makes it easier to manage. More of a wrapper than an actual firewall.

And has some extras like currently open and recently blocked connections and their states.

 

There's also arguments for each type of antivirus. Avast gets good test results. And I've been using it since it came out, so have some bias as well.

 

Hijack This is mostly just an analysis tool. I figure it's always good to have more data if something goes weird.

 

Are they required? Probably not. But I find them useful.

[Money Shot]

Just found this proggy called Never 10 to totally stop Windows 10 update. No install necessary, works perfect.

 

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/never.html

[Malaber]

I just built my system.

 

MSI Z170A Gaming Titanium motherboard

Intel i7 6700k 4ghz processor

32gb corsair vengence DDR4

2 512gb SSD's

Radeon R9 390 w/ 8gb ram

Corsair watercooling

1000w PSU from XFX (Pro series P1-1000-BELX)

All wrapped up in a Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced

 

I also have a G930 Artemis headset, a G500s Mouse, and a G910 mechanical keyboard.

Edited April 15, 2016 by Malaber

[Klopen]

i just have finish to make my pc this weekend!

 

OS W7

I5 quad core 4670 (no overclock)

Kingston 120GB ssd sataIII

2 X 1TB Western digital HDD sataIII

Asus B85 Pro gamer motherboard

2 X 8GB DDR3 kingston fury ram

B700 cooler master power supply

GeForce 750TI with 4GB ram GD5

Vultech keyboard and mouse