What do you install on your new computers?

[Asourcious]

I install LinX, Prime95, Heaven, Valley, MSI Afterburner, CPU-Z, and GPU-Z for Overclocking,
Daz 3D, Corel VideoStudio Pro X7, and Paintshop Pro X7 for content creation,
Steam, Origin, Battle.net, and Uplay (eww) for gaming

 

[Kursah]

Go to ninite.com, check what I want, run installer...use classic shell if Windows 8/Server2012. Installs everything without the extra junk. Only limitation is all programs are installed on the OS drive, so if you wanted to install those items in a different location, you either need to get Pro or manually install. I use this regularly and everyone gets different items, but this can save a ton of time so you can get that next build done or get to gaming or working or whatever. For media, browsing, av/am, utlities ninite covers 90% of it for mine and most of my customers' uses.

I then have a performance folder with CPU-z, GPU-z, HWmon, Open HWmon, AIDA64, Intel XTU, and OCCT.

I use an older version of EVGA Precision for my GPU's, the newest one sucks imho. Uses more resources, doesn't display data how I like on my aged G15's LCD, etc.

I could go into more detail, but there was another thread like this a couple months ago I had, and really what you listed mostly only matters to you, same as my specific loadouts. I prefer opensource software to save $$$ as well.

 

[Frick]

Office 2007, Paint.NET, ConTEXT, Firefox, Foxit Reader, Samsung Kies, Daemon Tools Lite, Greenshot, Image Resizer for Windows, Evernote.... Stuff like CPU-Z and games I have elsewhere.

 

[EarthDog]

LOL...............why not...

Windows-> chipset/GPU drivers (reboot) -> run WEI -> install the rest of mydrivers (reboot as needed) -> MS Office 2010 -> reattach my Steam/Origin drive with my games on it -> I have GPUz/CPUz/AIDA64/Realtemp/Paint.net/MSI AB/Futuremark Benchmarks etc on a USB3 stick. That is my basic install... that is, if I had to do that. I did it once, imaged it, and use that as my base install.

 

[vega22]

windows, drivers....everything else is on the lan/in the nas here.

 

[Jetster]

Only what I use. Office, Photoshop, Sony Movie Studio, BF4, CCCP I find the less I install the better the system runs. I don't like a bunch of programs I rarely use. Keep it lean!

And TPU Capture, love it
http://www.techpowerup.com/tpucapture/

 

[a111087]

VLC player or K-Lite pack for media files
winrar to compress files
HWMonitor for temperature information
Picasa (better image viewer than standard windows tool)
Windows Image resize tool (can resize a lot of files at once)
..........

 

[Chetkigaming]

Chrome, Skype, HWmonitor, CPU-Z, CCleaner, Winamp, Steam and Blizz games, OBS, Avira Internet Security, Media player classic, uTorrent, MSOffice, (dx9, vcredist_x64)...

 

[Jetster]

Instead of K lite try CCCP http://www.cccp-project.net/

 

[Aquinus]

For Windows on my tower?
Drivers, Media player classic, VMWare workstation, Prime95, AIDA64, CoreTemp, Steam (but not games until I need them), ASUS AI Suite, SSHFS for Windows, Skype, and OpenOffice... I will eventually get to installing things like Gimp and games as I need them.

Linux on my tower is a different animal, but I usually don't have to add too much beyond an Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 install. Replacing GDM with lightdm and using i3 and installing chrome and KVM covers most cases, granted I have plenty of dot files I use on all of my linux boxes. I like Ubuntu because it will install a UEFI boot record so I can boot into Windows or Linux without having a boot manager. So I can choose what OS to boot from directly though the BIOS. For example, I have two "boot devices" in my bios in addition to all the RAID devices and physical drives; "Windows boot manager" and "ubuntu".

What I install when I do a clean install is less important than how I set it all up in my honest opinion.

Edit: Here is what I mean when I say I don't need something like GRUB. Check out the first two boot override options. Ubuntu has a duplicate, whoops.

 

[Toothless]

Uh.. Ccleaner, Speccy, Puush, Skype, Steam and all of the storage space killing glory. Same with UPlay and Origin.

Teamviewer, Chrome, FireFox, Google Remote desktop, Speedfan, TS3, Photoshop, WCG and whatever else I feel like my desktop needs.

For the OS, I like Win8.1 now after testing it and loving it on my laptop. Might split the HDD partition into 1/2, 1/4, 1/4 and have Win7 and Win10 on the quarter parts. (I need more HDD space)

 

[approveme]

Average "Media User" (Home/Work Use - Video Editor/Photo Editor/Music/Video/HD Content) - 2.5-3 GHZ Processor (Intel), 4 GB+ of DDR3 RAM, 500+ GB Hard Drive, Decent Graphics Card, DVD/CD-ROM Drive (All in One - read/write dvd's and cd's), 3+ USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi

Average "Gamer" - 3+ GHZ Processor (Intel or AMD), 4+ GB (ideally 6GB) of DDR3 RAM, 500+ GB Hard Drive, High End Graphics Card DVD/CD-ROM Drive (All in One - read/write DVDs and CD's), 3+ USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi

 

[micropage7]

antivirus, updating driver, office, browser and multimedia things like klite, aimp

 

[Schmuckley]

Cpu-z,Realtemp,Trixx,Ccleaner,Gpu-z,VLC,reboot and shutdown shortcuts

 

[P4-630]

Comodo, windows updates, updating drivers, alcohol 120%, RealTemp, GPU-Z, CPU-Z, chrome, Steam, games, 3D mark vantage

 

[de.das.dude]

first i install drivers and aida64

 

[tecophile]

CC Cleaner, MS Office , Adobe Photoshop, Antivirus,Drivers,teamviewer, VLC ,etc etc etc

 

[Konceptz]

Hardware drivers of course
AVG Free 2015 x64
Office 2013 pro x64
Java 8 x86 and x64
Adobe flash
Adobe reader
Chrome x64
Firefox
Adblock plus for IE, Chrome and Firefox

whatever else I decide to use.