Every program you need on one disk, but what programs?

[war_junky 91]

Okay i am sick of going to fix people's computers or helping them with a problem or something they are trying to do and going "argh i wish i had (insert here) program i could give you. That would fix it right up." So i am going to take CD-R (or five) and load them with installers to several programs so i can just pop them in and install on whoever's computer. But what programs should i have? I don't want to waste disc space because i can only burn a CD-R once. So list what programs you think would be good.

And don't count them out if they need serial keys, i have downloaded a few torrents with serial keys included and i'm sure i can do it again for whatever program you need with the acception of anti-virus most likely.

Right now i have this meager list:
Total Video Converter (w/serial key)
WinRAR(w/serial key)
GIMP
Power ISO(w/serial key)

So post any and all programs you think i should put on my All in one disk. No limits on the type of programs. I will consider everything.  

[Stoic Socialist]

Snow Leopard...  

[Fresnel]

Stoic Socialist

Snow Leopard...

FLAWLESS VICTORY.

But really, have you considered an external HDD?

Also, MSOffice or OpenOffice.  

[Das Rabble Rouser]

If you need a free antivirus Avast and AVG are free and pretty good. Ad Aware is free and pretty good for finding malware. Spybot can get rid of malicious scripts or something, but it conflicts with Ad Aware.

I second the nomination of Open Office. Microsoft Office is getting really bloated. Open Office only takes like 300 something mb of disk space. It's free and legal.

If they do a lot of playing with audio Audacity is cool. If they need to convert media from one format to another Format Factory is free. Don't forget Firefox. Imgburn is a free light weight CD burning program. I really like it. VLC Media Player is pretty neat too.  

[war_junky 91]

Fresnel

Stoic Socialist

Snow Leopard...

FLAWLESS VICTORY.

But really, have you considered an external HDD?

Also, MSOffice or OpenOffice.

Once i get a spare $80 around i am going to get a 300gb passport external. Which should be sometime after i get a job. So right now i am going with cheap discs and avoiding my habit of losing flash drives for a couple months as soon as i put something on them.  

[Das Rabble Rouser]

war_junky 91

Fresnel

Stoic Socialist

Snow Leopard...

FLAWLESS VICTORY.

But really, have you considered an external HDD?

Also, MSOffice or OpenOffice.

Once i get a spare $80 around i am going to get a 300gb passport external. Which should be sometime after i get a job. So right now i am going with cheap discs and avoiding my habit of losing flash drives for a couple months as soon as i put something on them.

Put one of these on your key chain and it will survive the apocalypse.  

[Fresnel]

Das Rabble Rouser

war_junky 91

Fresnel

Stoic Socialist

Snow Leopard...

FLAWLESS VICTORY.

But really, have you considered an external HDD?

Also, MSOffice or OpenOffice.

Once i get a spare $80 around i am going to get a 300gb passport external. Which should be sometime after i get a job. So right now i am going with cheap discs and avoiding my habit of losing flash drives for a couple months as soon as i put something on them.

Put one of these on your key chain and it will survive the apocalypse.

Sure it'll survive, but lost is as good as broken. What he needs is one of those things where when you whistle, it beeps back at you to tell you where it is.

Also, I ******** love VLC. I used to use it all the time, but when I updated to Snow Leopard... well, QuickTime X, with Perian, plays anything but .flv. And it's sleeker and easier to use. Also, better upscaling.  

[war_junky 91]

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Das Rabble Rouser

war_junky 91

Fresnel

Stoic Socialist

Snow Leopard...

FLAWLESS VICTORY.

But really, have you considered an external HDD?

Also, MSOffice or OpenOffice.

Once i get a spare $80 around i am going to get a 300gb passport external. Which should be sometime after i get a job. So right now i am going with cheap discs and avoiding my habit of losing flash drives for a couple months as soon as i put something on them.

Put one of these on your key chain and it will survive the apocalypse.

Sure it'll survive, but lost is as good as broken. What he needs is one of those things where when you whistle, it beeps back at you to tell you where it is.

Also, I ******** love VLC. I used to use it all the time, but when I updated to Snow Leopard... well, QuickTime X, with Perian, plays anything but .flv. And it's sleeker and easier to use. Also, better upscaling.
That would work if i could actually whistle. xp
Also thanks to you guys and /g/ i have this list of programs downloaded so far:
7zip, AVG, Avira, CCleaner, Google Chrome, Comodo, CPU-Z, Defraggler, FireFox, foobar2000, Foxit reader, isodisk, IZarc, mirc, Media Player Classic, Microsoft security essentials, notepad++, Open Office, Opera, paint.net, pidgin, recuva, revo uninstaller, Sandiebox, imgburn, Super, utorrent, virtualbox, vlc, xchat, plus Hiren's boot CD  

[Das Rabble Rouser]

Fresnel

Das Rabble Rouser

war_junky 91

Fresnel

Stoic Socialist

Snow Leopard...

FLAWLESS VICTORY.

But really, have you considered an external HDD?

Also, MSOffice or OpenOffice.

Once i get a spare $80 around i am going to get a 300gb passport external. Which should be sometime after i get a job. So right now i am going with cheap discs and avoiding my habit of losing flash drives for a couple months as soon as i put something on them.

Put one of these on your key chain and it will survive the apocalypse.

Sure it'll survive, but lost is as good as broken. What he needs is one of those things where when you whistle, it beeps back at you to tell you where it is.

Also, I ******** love VLC. I used to use it all the time, but when I updated to Snow Leopard... well, QuickTime X, with Perian, plays anything but .flv. And it's sleeker and easier to use. Also, better upscaling.That's why I said to put it on his keys. If you lose the flash drive then you can't unlock your house or your car either. I use VLC to watch movies and keep WMP for my music since I'm too lazy to figure out how to compile a playlist on VLC.  

[Fresnel]

war_junky 91

Fresnel

Das Rabble Rouser

war_junky 91

Fresnel

Stoic Socialist

Snow Leopard...

FLAWLESS VICTORY.

But really, have you considered an external HDD?

Also, MSOffice or OpenOffice.

Once i get a spare $80 around i am going to get a 300gb passport external. Which should be sometime after i get a job. So right now i am going with cheap discs and avoiding my habit of losing flash drives for a couple months as soon as i put something on them.

Put one of these on your key chain and it will survive the apocalypse.

Sure it'll survive, but lost is as good as broken. What he needs is one of those things where when you whistle, it beeps back at you to tell you where it is.

Also, I ******** love VLC. I used to use it all the time, but when I updated to Snow Leopard... well, QuickTime X, with Perian, plays anything but .flv. And it's sleeker and easier to use. Also, better upscaling.

That would work if i could actually whistle. xp
Also thanks to you guys and /g/ i have this list of programs downloaded so far:
7zip, AVG, Avira, CCleaner, Google Chrome, Comodo, CPU-Z, Defraggler, FireFox, foobar2000, Foxit reader, isodisk, IZarc, mirc, Media Player Classic, Microsoft security essentials, notepad++, Open Office, Opera, paint.net, pidgin, recuva, revo uninstaller, Sandiebox, imgburn, Super, utorrent, virtualbox, vlc, xchat, plus Hiren's boot CD It works with a specific sequence of claps, too.

Trillian? I don't see any IM clients there except XChat. Also, winRAR.  

[Requiem ex Inferni]

Das Rabble Rouser

If you need a free antivirus Avast and AVG are free and pretty good. Ad Aware is free and pretty good for finding malware. Spybot can get rid of malicious scripts or something, but it conflicts with Ad Aware.

I second the nomination of Open Office. Microsoft Office is getting really bloated. Open Office only takes like 300 something mb of disk space. It's free and legal.

If they do a lot of playing with audio Audacity is cool. If they need to convert media from one format to another Format Factory is free. Don't forget Firefox. Imgburn is a free light weight CD burning program. I really like it. VLC Media Player is pretty neat too.

If you have Comcast for Internet, you can get McAfee for free.  

[Das Rabble Rouser]

Requiem in Mortis

Das Rabble Rouser

If you need a free antivirus Avast and AVG are free and pretty good. Ad Aware is free and pretty good for finding malware. Spybot can get rid of malicious scripts or something, but it conflicts with Ad Aware.

I second the nomination of Open Office. Microsoft Office is getting really bloated. Open Office only takes like 300 something mb of disk space. It's free and legal.

If they do a lot of playing with audio Audacity is cool. If they need to convert media from one format to another Format Factory is free. Don't forget Firefox. Imgburn is a free light weight CD burning program. I really like it. VLC Media Player is pretty neat too.

If you have Comcast for Internet, you can get McAfee for free.

My aunt has Comcast and McAfee, but their computer almost always seems to get a virus. Just as they get it fixed they get another virus. In the last 6 months they have spent probably more than 5 times what the computer is even worth just trying to get it fixed up.

Either they are very ignorant of safety procedures or McAfee really sucks. Either one is possible. My aunt thought the blinking placeholder in a text box was a possible virus or something. ninja  

[Fresnel]

Das Rabble Rouser

Requiem in Mortis

Das Rabble Rouser

If you need a free antivirus Avast and AVG are free and pretty good. Ad Aware is free and pretty good for finding malware. Spybot can get rid of malicious scripts or something, but it conflicts with Ad Aware.

I second the nomination of Open Office. Microsoft Office is getting really bloated. Open Office only takes like 300 something mb of disk space. It's free and legal.

If they do a lot of playing with audio Audacity is cool. If they need to convert media from one format to another Format Factory is free. Don't forget Firefox. Imgburn is a free light weight CD burning program. I really like it. VLC Media Player is pretty neat too.

If you have Comcast for Internet, you can get McAfee for free.

My aunt has Comcast and McAfee, but their computer almost always seems to get a virus. Just as they get it fixed they get another virus. In the last 6 months they have spent probably more than 5 times what the computer is even worth just trying to get it fixed up.

Either they are very ignorant of safety procedures or McAfee really sucks. Either one is possible. My aunt thought the blinking placeholder in a text box was a possible virus or something. ninja

I was forced to install McAfee once, and I had to dig it out of my system like it was a ******** wart or something. They did NOT make it easy to remove.  

[Das Rabble Rouser]

Fresnel

Das Rabble Rouser

Requiem in Mortis

Das Rabble Rouser

If you need a free antivirus Avast and AVG are free and pretty good. Ad Aware is free and pretty good for finding malware. Spybot can get rid of malicious scripts or something, but it conflicts with Ad Aware.

I second the nomination of Open Office. Microsoft Office is getting really bloated. Open Office only takes like 300 something mb of disk space. It's free and legal.

If they do a lot of playing with audio Audacity is cool. If they need to convert media from one format to another Format Factory is free. Don't forget Firefox. Imgburn is a free light weight CD burning program. I really like it. VLC Media Player is pretty neat too.

If you have Comcast for Internet, you can get McAfee for free.

My aunt has Comcast and McAfee, but their computer almost always seems to get a virus. Just as they get it fixed they get another virus. In the last 6 months they have spent probably more than 5 times what the computer is even worth just trying to get it fixed up.

Either they are very ignorant of safety procedures or McAfee really sucks. Either one is possible. My aunt thought the blinking placeholder in a text box was a possible virus or something. ninja

I was forced to install McAfee once, and I had to dig it out of my system like it was a ******** wart or something. They did NOT make it easy to remove.

I've heard similar for Norton. Aside from the general inconvenience it's probably no big deal if their computer gets hacked. I don't think they really even use their email. They don't do any banking online. Really as far as I know the most "valuable" account they have online is my cousins gaia account.

The machine itself isn't even all that great. They got it like 5 years ago for $3,000. It has 969mhz processor power and 512mb of RAM. Really what they should just do is get some parts and have me build them a new computer. The one they have now is pretty worthless.  

[Requiem ex Inferni]

Oh God, Norton was horrible. EVERYTHING you did had to be cleared through it, it slowed the computer down to a crawl, and you couldn't do jack s**t until it started up, which took a good five to ten minutes. Norton isn't antivirus, it IS a virus.

It also didn't stop the virus that was Limewire from taking a s**t on my computer.