Most used Software free or paid for (or not)

[philnicandamy]

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or i've office 2010...

[BBoo]

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Got Office 2003 and Open Office, but they reckon this Libre Office is better than Open Office. Obviously not for me lol!

[Never-In-Doubt]

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or i've office 2010...

I found it slower than 07 thus went back but to be fair xp is still easiest to use.

I'm used to tabs cos of Firefox but still.

[philnicandamy]

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I found it slower than 07 thus went back but to be fair xp is still easiest to use.

I'm used to tabs cos of Firefox but still.

it was to start...but once i'd had a play under the bonnet its bobbing along pretty quickly now

[Bricktop]

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If anyone needs image manipulation software (any dca's in here ?) then GIMP does most things you would need

[5corpio]

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OS: Operating Systems:

An operating system (OS) is a set of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is a vital component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs require an operating system to function.

Operating system -

[kilasuit]

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Sorry got banned on CAG and when i went to post on thread came up with same sorta info so just feaking out a lil bit

[jon1965]

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Aint we all

[ScabHunter]

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I thought I'd stick a post on this thread as none of my most used software programs appear to have been mentioned so far -

foobar2000 (free) – Audio player

Audacity (free) – Audio file editor

Izotope RX2 ($350) – Audio clean up software

Other programs I use which haven't been mentioned –

Alleycode (free) – The best HTML editor for building websites
Paint.NET (free) – Graphics program (graphics are the one thing I am completely useless at on a PC, but this at least allows me to do basic image editing)
MediaJoin (free) – lets you stick video or audio clips together
Irfanview (free) – allows you to join images together
RealPlayer (free) – plays video and also lets you download video from sharing sites

Not a program but a useful resource – HDDownloader.com – take the URL of a YouTube music video and stick it into this site, and you get a reasonable quality mp3 (as much as mp3 can ever be reasonable quality) of the sound which you can then download. Clean it up in RX2 and you often get something which is listenable.

Most of the other programs I use have already been mentioned. I use Open Office (laptop) and Libre Office (desktop) every day because I make my living from the written word, although I'm not sure anyone who reads my posts on this site will be able to believe that!

SH

[BBoo]

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I forgot Audacity - excellent program which wasn't free when I started using it!

Would security interfere with downloading Libre Office?

[kilasuit]

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I forgot about this

Belarc Advisor - Free Personal PC Audit, for software, hardware and security configuration information on your computer. Software license management, IT asset management, cyber security audits, and more.

Runs a simple check on all windows systems and tells you what software your running

and also if the updates are uptodate

[BBoo]

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What happens when you try to download that program? What goes wrong?

See post 34. I'll try and download it again tomorrow, but I tried three times and each time it downloads, then when it starts to install, it asks me to close some Libre Office Start Up software which I can't because I'm not aware of there being any open as the program isn't yet installed.

[Never-In-Doubt]

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OS: Operating Systems:

An operating system (OS) is a set of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. The operating system is a vital component of the system software in a computer system. Application programs require an operating system to function.

Operating system -

clever - we can all copy Wiki but do you believe everything you read on Wiki

[Never-In-Doubt]

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That's exactly what I got. It downloaded, but when I tried to install it asked me to close some start up software and I hadn't a clue what it was on about.

Click Start -> All Programs -> Startup ->

What file names appear in that list?

[Never-In-Doubt]

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Ok so what do I use (here goes)!

win7 (64bit)
MS Essentials
Office 2007
notepad++
PHP Python v.3
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Elements
Adobe Premier Pro
Adobe PDF Creator
Macromedia MX
Dreamweaver MX
Freehand MX
Flash MX
Firefox/Explorer(9)/Chrome/Safari
Firebug
Syntax Check 4.4

And that's about the lot