What basic software should all computers have?

I reinstalled windows xp. I need to know what software I need. I can only think of office so far.What basic software should all computers have?1) Operating System - you have already.

2) Office suite - you can use MS Office or you could try OpenOffice. Open office is free. It's 100% compatible with MS Office.

3) Browser - suggest installing Firefox for added security.

4) Utilities - Things like image editors if you are into digital photography.

5) System Tools - Things I typically install are CPUz, Sisoft Sandra and PC Wizard to verify my system is functioning correctly.

6) Virus software suite - I use ESET Smart Security Suite, has firewall, antivirus and malware scanner all in one.



That's the baseline for my systems. Then as I need I install things like CD Burner utilities, DVD codec, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash plug-in, Java, etc.What basic software should all computers have?go to the manufactures site and look up your computer and see what you need. you need to tell us what brand it is.What basic software should all computers have?You will need an office suite, Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect, Openoffice.org.



You will need an Anti-virus - Nod32 and Avira are at the top, actally Avira has a better detection rate than Nod32 : http://www.free-av.com/ / http://www.eset.com/.



You will need a good firewall and Comodo Firewall Pro (free) is the best out there http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/.



Anti-spyware software - Spybot SD is good: http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.h鈥?/a> / adaware is another good one: http://lavasoft.com/



You might want an Image Manipulation Program and GIMP should suffice: http://www.gimp.org/ there is also Inkscape : http://www.inkscape.org/ which is An Open Source vector graphics editor. Paint.net is another good one: http://www.getpaint.net/.



CinePaint is a computer program to paint on and retouch bitmap frames of movies :



Ccleaner will help clean out you PC:



Firefox 3 for more security in your Web browsing:



Super if you need an audio Video converter: http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html / Audacity if you want to have an audio editor/recorder:http://audacity.sourceforge.net/



VLC and Media Player Classic to play Ogg files and MKV files:



Kantaris is an all new media player based on code from Videolan client (VLC) and Bass audio library. Kantaris has a graphical user interface similar to that of Windows Media Player. (very nice)



Most of these are free software that will be helpful.What basic software should all computers have?
Basics should be virus software

AVG Free

Spybot Search and Destroy

AD-Aware



Internet Explorer or firefox



Open Office or Microsoft Office

google chrome extensions

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