drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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Just built a PC for a mate but he doesnt have broadband at home so im getting some software for him. What comes in handy? (legal stuff!)
So far i got windows media player 9, VLC media player, Motherboard Manager 5 and quicktime.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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KaZaA, every PC should have it. But not to share files. To arrange your PC's media files
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
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PowerDVD
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leeshez
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Registered: 3rd May 01
Location: Great Harwood, Lancashire
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si_reading
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Registered: 5th Apr 03
Location: Macclesfield, Cheshire
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Realplayer can't think of any more..
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Stuckey
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Registered: 5th Jun 02
Location: Plumstead, Greater London
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ad-aware - for removing spyware
Zone Alarm - Firewall
AVG - Anti virus
all free
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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jut got realplayer 8 from oldversion.com cos the new one is so annoying! Just remembered winamp too
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myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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java
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myke
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Registered: 7th Feb 01
Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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directx
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Stuckey
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Registered: 5th Jun 02
Location: Plumstead, Greater London
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mozilla or firefox, more stable than IE, that is until the IE is updated to final version when that is released
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Stuckey
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Registered: 5th Jun 02
Location: Plumstead, Greater London
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msn messanger 6.2
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
Location: Hereford Drives: Audi R8 V8
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got messenger
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Stuckey
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Registered: 5th Jun 02
Location: Plumstead, Greater London
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adobe acrobat reader
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Stuckey
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Registered: 5th Jun 02
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win rar - decompress .rar files
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si_reading
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Registered: 5th Apr 03
Location: Macclesfield, Cheshire
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Winzip. Kinder comes bulit in XP but the proper winzip is better.
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drunkenfool
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Now got adobe and direct X, cheers guys! I know all these programs come in handy, just hard to think of them in one list!
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
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THIS ONE would also be useful I imagine
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Stuckey
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Registered: 5th Jun 02
Location: Plumstead, Greater London
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shockware player/reader or whatever it is
flash
java?
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Stuckey
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quote: Originally posted by CorsAsh
THIS ONE would also be useful I imagine
PMSL
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/index.html
quality office suite & completely free
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Lee 16v
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Registered: 25th Jun 04
Location: Maidstone Drives: Corsa 2.0 16v
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a cd burner of sum type
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CorsAsh
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DanW
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Registered: 7th Mar 04
Location: Hereford, West Midlands
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Some porn
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Stuckey
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Registered: 5th Jun 02
Location: Plumstead, Greater London
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the sasser worm would be useful
[Edited on 22-08-2004 by Stuckey]
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
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quote: Originally posted by Stuckey
the sasser worm would be useful
[Edited on 22-08-2004 by Stuckey]
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Mean fcuker, hope no one ever buys a computer from you
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