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Stuff to install on a new Windows PC
Published by Peter on September 17, 2008 in tool and windows. Tags: essential, install, reformat, tools, windows.

That is, the stuff I install on a new Windows PC. Since I need this list several times a year, why not make a blog post of it. As you will see,I have a more than average interest in video (conversion) and sysadmin (SSH/FTP). The links typically go straight to the download page.

Audio/video

* iTunes (+Quicktime): excellent music manager and it rips to MP3 really fast
* CDBurnerXP: for burning CDs, DVDs, ISO files
* Irfanview: image viewer, editor and converter - for people who think Photoshop is overkill
* Picasa: photograph workflow & archive manager (from Google)
* VLC Player: ultimate video player, very complete set of codecs
* ffmpeg with a GUI like GVC: video conversion: AVI, MOV, MPG, MP4, …
* Handbrake: will make a good MPEG4 of any DVD in one go

Internet

* Skype: for chat, phonecalls and SMSes with people far away
* Chrome, Firefox or Opera browser - personally I like Firefox less. Opera is solid and fast, Google Chrome is an interesting new kid on the block.
* FileZilla: FTP client
* Putty: SSH and telnet terminal
* EditPlus: customisable editor for text, HTML, CMD … that also works over FTP
* uTorrent: because sometimes you need to … get stuff, you know

Tools

* Google Pack: contains Picasa, Skype, Google Toolbar and a whole bunch of other useful programs
* Adobe PDF reader: for reading PDF documents, and everything is in PDF these days
* 7-Zip: compression/expansion of ZIP, RAR and 7z archives
* CutePDF with GhostScript: printing to a PDF file (also allows converting a PostScript PS/EPS file to PDF)
* UnixUtils: I’m a sucker for GAWK and WGET
* Nokia PCSuite: for synchro with my Nokia N91 (yes, it’s still my phone!)
* XAMPP: for developing with Apache/PERL/PHP/MySQL on Windows

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