Best Software for Windows XP
Submitted by anonymoose on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 02:17
- Internet:
- Mozilla Firefox
- for the addons.
- Google Chrome
- for slower computers or when you quickly need to look something up.
- Windows Live Messenger (with a patch)
- for the features, and a patch to get rid of ads and restrictions.
- Pidgin
- for simplicity and older computers.
- Utorrent
- for all your torrenting needs.
- Spotify
- for free legal music streaming if you live in Europe
- Media:
- Winamp
- for anyone who wants a good iPod compatible music player with no restrictions.
- Foobar
- For customizability and less resource hogging
- Zoom player
- for being able to play any video type, (needs to be pirated)
- VLC player
- for open sourceness and being able to play any video type
- Essentials:
- Truecrypt
- for encrypting your sensitive data
- Ccleaner
- for maintaining your computer and keeping it quick
- Open Office
- for most of your office needs
- Microsoft Office
- for even more of your office needs (must be pirated)
- Avira
- Best antivirus software out there
- Creativity:
- Aduacity
- for basic audio editing
- Corel Paint shop Pro X
- for image editing, its better than photoshop but I suspect it's because I'm just used to it. (needs to be pirated)
- Photoshop
- If you don't like paintshop. (needs to be pirated)
- NvU
- for creating websites.
- Gimpshop
- If you don't want to pirate photoshop and can settle for less
- Paint.NET
- for basic editing
