First Things You Install On A Fresh Os?

I was wondering what are the first things that every one installs rite after a fresh install of your os, reformat, or a new computer?

I install...

Windows Xp Media Center Edition

Windows Xp Plus!

Windows Xp Plus! Digital Media Edition

Windows Xp Office

Windows Xp Media Player 9

Cyberlink Power DVD

Adaware

Xp styles - Brushed Collection

Yz Dock - Standard

Panthers Sound Theme

Trillian

MSN 9 Software

Itunes / Quicktime

Rainlender

The sims, House party, living large, hotdate, vacation, unleashed, superstar, making magic

Ultima Online Age Of Shadows, Age Of Empires, Diablo II, Counter Strike

#156034

I do all the system updating I can first. Then I add on my favorite programs, followed by the theming sowtware, and then any games I want to play would come last.

#156036

Since I am currently formatting now...

Xp updates (driveres too)

WinRAR

FireFox (plus a few extensions)

jv16 Powertools

Ad-Aware

Grabit

Winamp

Nero

Outlook

CuteFtp

then me games...

#156041

critical upadates,

updated antivirus softwere

all my backed up mac modding files ie vs themes and apps

my backed up music

my backed up pictures

my backed up work

stardock apps

tgt apps

i have gotten pritty good at it, i can make my computer look the way it did before i had to restore it in about 2 to 3 hours.

BUT ITS STILL A PAIN IN THE BUTT :rant:

#156045

windows xp

nforce2 drivers

graphics card drivers

windows update

dx9.0b

uxtheme patch

apps (norton, kerio, firefox, copy miranda, etc.)

mods (replace system files, etc.)

i have separate partitions, so most of my data is safe anyway.

#156062

windows XP sp1,pre sp2 integred

windows update

drivers(sound graphics card mainboard....)

Kapersky anti-virus

foobar and my music

then all the rest >.<

winrar

spy sweeper

diskeeper

window washer

true launch bar

Myie2

trillian

....

#156071

FireFox

WinRar

Star Wars Galaxies

#156075

Windows XP

Kazaa-lite

...Then I update and download any apps (I do own a few that I download...just previous versions :naughty: )

And then, I install Firefox, come here and browse through threads, old and new to see whats good and redownload it. And then, I find all of my old sites and files that i've saved on CD and on webhosts and put them back on my pc.

#156170

Tweak UI

Powertoys and specially:

Open Command Prompt Here Context Menu Power Toy

Dependency Viewer (www.depends.exe)

ProcEx aka HandleEx, RegMon (www.sysinternals.com)

ATL Powertoys (for registering, unregistering and vieweing COM servers, controls and libraries)

VNC Server and viewer

Visual Studio 6 Remote Debug monitor

Need not to say that I mostly do a fresh install for testing a setup...

My actual development machine never needed a fresh install in almost 5 years,

while ids HD was replaced twice, Linux came and went (SuSe 7.0, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 and Debian "Potato" "Woody") on another partition, same drive, 5 - 16 GB.

#156179

When I had a PC, and a real top notch one, I used to install:

1) Graphics drivers

2) Mobo and other drivers

3) Zone Alarm Pro

4) Ad-Aware Pro

5) Trillian

6) Panther System files along with a theme Used to be most important before continuing any work

7) Adobe Premier, AE, PS

8) Industry's most used 3D apps

9) Max Payne 2

10) Halo

11) the rest hoping to keep things intact.

----------------------------------------------

Soon, very soon it'll be liks this:

1) system update

2) Shake3

3) Final cut Pro 4

4) DVD studio 2

5) Adobe PS CS, AE

6) Sound track

7) LiveType

8) Cinema Tools

9) Proteus

As you see, I progress in my life spending real quality installs, abandoning time wasters (drivers, anti-viruses, anti-spams, anti-hackings, antisemites, comeptability issues, games in particular, and #1 destructive time-waste is a GUI sickening obssesion).

#156218

Originally posted by grim53@May 4 2004, 08:25 AM

critical upadates,

updated antivirus softwere

all my backed up mac modding files ie vs themes and apps

my backed up music

my backed up pictures

my backed up work

stardock apps

tgt apps

I do the exact same thing.

#156281

hmm...

Windoze Update

Firefox

Trillian

Object Desktop + Themes

Then the rest, once i can get on with the OS and people can contact me again:

Adobe CS Suite

Macromedia MX 2004 suite

Office 2003

Nero 6

PowerArchiver

WinDVD Plat 5

Kazaa Resurrection

etc etc etc...

#156311

blaster and sasser worm fix

all updates of windowsupdate

drivers

firefox

thunderbird

trillian

winamp

data (music, movies and whatnot) is saved on a server and on other drives so no need to put them back on...

#156319

Win2k

Norton Ghost

Ghost Image

Done!

#156682

total commander with all my plugins

backups & drivers & xp patches

winrar

kaspersky with bases

acdsee

opera

the bat!

and then - everything else.

#156809

Windows XP

Turn off all ****y Microsoft services to plug security holes and save resources.

Logitech Mouseware

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 10th Anniversary Edition

Nero CD/DVD Burning (latest version)

Norton Systemworks 2003 (soon 2004)

Norton Internet Security 2003 (soon 2004)

AOL 9.0

Install Windows Updates

Install Firefox

Install Flash, Shockwave and Java for Firefox

Install Thunderbird

Install Ad-Aware 6.181 (or whatever version)

Install Spybot Search and Destroy

Install Spyware Blaster

Install PGP

Install Tweak UI

Install MSN Messenger

Install Plus for Messenger

Install WS_FTP

Install GetRight

Install WinMX

Update everything after installing.

-Jimmy S

p.s. I can't believe NONE of you use Spyware Blaster or Spybot Search and Destroy!

They Stop Spyware from installing in the first place!!!

#156840

Here's my to-do list after a reformat (I run Server 2003):

Install drivers for motherboard, video card, keyboard, mouse and TV tuner.

Update system with latest patches from Windows Update (also includes DirectX 9 and latest Windows Media Player).

Install critical apps such as Spybot S&D, TweakUI, MSN Messenger, Shockwave and Flash plug-ins etc/ because I use them practically everyday.

Disable unnecessary services such as Themes, Messenger, Alerter etc.

Install software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Axialis IconWorkshop and Dreamweaver MX.

Third-party utilities such as FlashFXP, Foobar2000, DivX Player, K-Lite Codec Pack.

#156858

Originally posted by Sid@May 5 2004, 11:08 PM

Disable unnecessary services such as Themes

/me slaps Sid rapidly with a bleeding chicken - much better, someone had to do it

#156859

Originally posted by Seph@May 5 2004, 03:10 PM

/me slaps Sid rapidly with a bleeding chicken - much better, someone had to do it

I knew you were gonna do that... >.<

#156892

Originally posted by Sid@May 5 2004, 11:32 PM

I knew you were gonna do that... >.<

yet you decided to say it anyway someone enjoys getting slapped with a bleeding chicken

#156896

What's wrong with Disabling themes?

It takes up to 12MBs of Memory, that is just unaccetable!!

-Jimmy S

#156945

I don't know, I've never had to re-install the whole OS before...

I suppose it would be update the hell out of Windows, but it's a situation I've never been in.

I feel left out...

#156952

Sorry, I'm totally clueless to this, what does disabling Themes do?

#156953

Well Themes or Visual Styles (VS) are run by this service (type in services.msc into run) and disabling it will stop these from showing and save you memory!

A good website for telling you which services you do and don't need running can be found here

-Jimmy S

#157012

Since I'm doing it right now I might as well bump the thread Well this thread needs an update anyway, it's been 2 years...

The very first thing installed... Firefox from another drive.

I wouldn't bother launching IE, even only once. :slant:

The next were my bookmarks, Flash plugin and essential FF extensions...

Adblock Plus w/ filterset.G, IE Tab, Nuke Anything Enhanced.

And no, I haven't forgotten disabling Windows services.

With IE and annoyances out of my eyesight, I could start installing roughly in this order...

Autopatcher, Sun Java Runtime, MacDrive

nVIDIA driver, audio card driver

iTunes, PowerDVD, K-Lite Codec Pack, then Winamp w/ in_mpg123 and out_asio.

ACDSee 2.43 -- the last good version of it. 2.44? Don't even think about it. It came with the pesky Vbox licensing program.

WinRAR 3.5... look for the corporate edition if you can. No more Winzip this time around!

PropertiesPlus... very old and limited in features, but it's long been the cornerstone of my computer... must be some kind of infatuation!

LAME 3.97 beta 2, Razor LAME, Exact Audio Copy... another indispensable set of tools.

Ad-aware, Spybot, NOD32, PowerToys (CmdHere, TweakUI, ClearType tuning),

Office 2003, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Photoshop CS2,

Nero 7, Alcohol 120%, Win ISO, Daemon Tools... all pretty obvious.

Azureus, BCDC++, eMule Plus, Soulseek... my favourite way to P2P.

(Finally) Flyakite, Objectbar, Windowblinds, Y'z Dock (the dock I shouldn't name), AveDesk.

The rest are kinda specific to musicians...

Pro Tools LE, Ableton Live, Native Instruments Komplete, Recycle, Rebirth, Reason, Adobe Audition, and a handful of RTAS and VST plugins.

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