What do you want as your new year's gift? A new PC? That's great. Then the first thing you should do must be installing some programs to make the pc helpful instead of a big white elephant.
There are plenty of programs, free or paid ones, available on the internet that alleged necessary for your PC. Actually, a lot of them are a bit redundant. Therefore, I have spent a whole week collecting the list below and recommend you the most essential programs for your new PC.
This list may be difficult to go down with everybody, but I believe it will fit most professional computer user's appetite. Just browse and select your cup of tea and make your computing more interesting!
Top program 1st for new PC: Web browser
Google Chrome - fastest mini browser
Google Chrome combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make surfing web faster, safer, and easier.
Download: http://www.google.com/chrome
Mozilla Firefox - best browser to expend
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
Download: http://www.mozilla.com/en! -US/firefox/ie.html
Opera - most polished browser out of the box
Opera 10.10 Web browser comes with a new streamlined, elegant interface and many innovative cool features, including Opera Turbo, a new compression technology that solves the pain of slow connections, and better tabs.
Download: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ie.html
Top program 2nd for new PC: Archiver/Extractor
WinRAR archiver - easy to use, lightweight and flexible
WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and! reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, BZ2, ACE, UUE, JAR, ISO,7Z and Z files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.
Download: http://www.rarlab.com/
7zip - free and user-friendly
Features: High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression.
Support: Packing/unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR;
Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, ISO, NSIS, RAR, etc.
Download: http://www.7-zip.org/
Top program 3rd for new PC: Anti-virus program
ESET NOD32 Antivirus - effective and easy-to-use
ESET NOD32 is a great combo of firewall and virus scanner. The latest version of ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 also provides the world's most effective proactive antivirus and antispyware protection for your PC.
Download: http://www.eset.com/products/nod32.php
BitDefender Antivirus - maximum security and speed
BitDefender Antivirus 2010 protects you and your PC from a number of online threats, including viruses, spyware, phishing scams, and more, without slowing down your PC.
Download: http://www.bitdefender.com/
You may also want to have a look at other free antivirus software, like Avira AntiVir Personal – Free Antivirus, Avast! Home Edition – Free Antivirus, AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition etc.
Top program 4th for new PC: Anti-spyware program
Wondershare Spyware Removal - professional PC system protector
It serves as anti-Trojan & antispyware with talent to remove spyware & trojan virus and performs proactive defense to keep threats away from your computer. Moreover, now this program is on promotion for six-month free. You can get the free registration code that can work without any restriction before Feb 28, 2010.
Download: ! http://www.system-tools-software.com/spyware-removal/
Spybot S&D - the best free spyware killer
Spybot search and destroy is a free, effective and very popular anti-spyware. It can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your Computer and it can be used in conjunction with a program like AD-Aware because they will often catch a handful of spyware that the other did not detect.
Download: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - high performance anti-malware appli! cation
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware now ranks among the top 10 most downloaded software on Download.com. It is a high performance anti-malware application that protects your computer from spyware, hijackers, keyloggers and other kind of malicious craplets.
Download: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam-download.php
Top program 5th for new PC: Registry cleaner/optimizer
CCleaner - free registry cleaner
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet histo! ry. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner! .
D ownload: http://www.ccleaner.com/
Wondershare Registry Defrag - free registry defragmenter
Wondershare Registry Defrag is freeware. It works safely and fast to rebuild a streamlined and compact registry, which will take up less memory, reduce the registry access time and accelerate application response.
Download: http://www.system-tools-software.com/free-registry-defrag/
Wondershare Registry Optimizer ! - new but popular registry cleaner & optimizer
Wondershare Registry Optimizer is a new system utility from Wondershare. It functions better than the sum of CCleaner, registry defrag, and a 1-click system optimizer. Since it can run a complete and deep registry scan, it is able to detect more errors and fix them all.
Download: http://www.system-tools-software.com/registry-optimizer/
Top program 6th for new PC: Backup program
MozyHome Remote Backup – free and simple
MozyHome is a secure online backup service. It is a simple, smart, and economical way to protect your data from hazards like file corruption, accidental deletion, or hardware fa! ilure. Mozy regularly backs up your files to our secure server! s automa tically so that you never have to worry about losing important data.
Download: http://mozy.com/
Top program 7th for new PC: PDF reader
Foxit – fast and error-free
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer replacement to Adobe PDF reader, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.
Download: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/reader3.php
Top program 8th for new PC: Multi-protocol instant messenger
Skype – enables the world's conversations
Skype is software that enables you to make free calls anywhere in the world. Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer) technology to connect you with other users.
Download: http://www.skype.com/
Top program 9th for new PC: Video downloader
GVDown – simple to use
GVDown is an application that can download videos from video sharing websites like YouTube, Google Video, and MyVideo and so on.
Download: http://code.google.com/p/vdown/
Top program 10th for new PC: Photo man! agement
IrfanView – the most popular image viewer and editor
IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features include multi-language support, Thumbnail option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, and fast directory browsing and so on.
Download: http://www.irfanview.com/
Top program 11th for new PC: Video player
VLC Media Player – never a problem
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia playe! r and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac etc.) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Download: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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