What are your must have programs after a fresh install?

[AustinInDallas]

I got a new sony laptop, put fresh windows 8 on it as soon as I got it, and got ride of all the VAIO crap.

so far I have
Chrome
VLC
7zip
skydrive for desktop
office 2013
adobe acrobat.

 

[lxskllr]

On Windows...

Foobar2000
Paint.NET
Thunderbird
Firefox
Pidgin
Notepad++
LibreOffice
VLC
7Zip
SpeedFan

Edit:
Forgot qBittorrent
Also forgot Evince for pdfs. Does Win8 read those now?

 

[Kaido]

After fresh install, updates, and system tweaks:

MSE
CCleaner
Malwarebytes

Office 2007
Keynote-NF

VLC
iTunes

7zip
Snagit
Everything Search
Pismo File Mount
Macrium Reflect
EaseUS Partition Master

Paint.net
Picasa
Irfanview
Sketchup

Java
Chrome
Adobe Reader
CutePDF

Probably some other stuff too but that's the gist of it.

 

[ControlD]

Truecrypt
Faststone
7-zip
Notepad++
Chrome
VLC

 

[bbhaag]

Chrome
CCleaner
Office 2007
JbinUp
Sabnzbd
Bittorrent
HexChat
WinRar
NiceLabel 6
QuickPar
Power ISO
Ashampoo
MPC-HC
Handbrake
Amazon Unbox
Samsung PCshare Manager(utter crap)
MakeMKV
Audials 10

Probably a few more that I'm missing but that's all I can think of right now.

 

[nisryus]

Chrome
Firefox
Office 2010
CCleaner
Malwarebyte
Photoshop
Premiere
Steam
VLC
Oracle VM
ImgBurn
ITune
DVD Shrink
Handbrake
MKVMaker
KLSmailbackup
GoogleDrive
Adobe Acrobat
Peazip
GW2
Lineage 2

 

[capeconsultant]

Malwarebytes PRO

 

[smakme7757]

Firefox
Skydrive
Winrar
Skype
Office
Ultra Edit/Ultra Compare
Visual Studio
VLC
Starcraft 2

 

[zokudu]

Off the top of my head.

7-Zip
Malwarebytes
Avast
Opera
Office 2013
Skype
Musicbee
utorrent
Skydrive
Dropbox
Steam

Thats all I can really think of. I have others like Filezilla I always end up with but not until I need them.

 

[Remobz]

Chrome
Firefox
Office 2010
CCleaner
Malwarebyte
Photoshop
Premiere
Steam
VLC
Oracle VM
ImgBurn
ITune
DVD Shrink
Handbrake
MKVMaker
KLSmailbackup
GoogleDrive
Adobe Acrobat
Peazip
GW2
Lineage 2

wow!

 

[el-Capitan]

For those who dont know.

Customize your basic installs (winrar, flash, IMs, foobar, etc) into a batch download and install, go to www.ninite.com

 

[Muse]

Winamp
Enditall
Metapad
VLC
Visual FoxPro 9.0 and updates, addons
Firefox
MyHD
Nero 6
ThinkOrSwim
Dropbox
Cinemania 97
Agent Ransack
MSE
Superantispyware
Total Recorder Standard
Adobe Reader
DVDShrink
Office 2007
Webex

 

[John Connor]

I have so many I can't say. Most of what has been mentioned already. For my photo editor I use something called Photofiltre. For PDFs Foxit.

 

[$panky]

For a basic install, I don't install much of anything other than flash! I just copy over my liberkey folder with all my portable apps. I have alot, but the ones I use most are:

Firefox
OpenOffice
7zip
pdf-xchange viewer
rocket docket
freefilesync
True crypt
Vlc
Calibre
media info
Mp3Tag
Defraggler
Wise Registery Cleaner
CD burner xp
openhardware monitor

Then I can install a few things at my leisure like:

Aoemi Backupper and Aoemi partition
xbmc
windows photo gallery
skydrive and dropbox

 

[oynaz]

VLC
Foobar2000
Audacity
Cubase
Reason
LibreOffice
Foxit PDF
Avast
Dropbox
Steam
ImgBurn
Paint.net
IrfanView
GVim
Firefox
Handbrake

 

[danny87]

Firefox
Avast
VLC
Adobe Acrobat
Photoshop
Office 2010
Premiere
Steam
iTunes
Dropbox

 

[yinan]

Vmware viClient
APPV-client
VMware workstation

That is all

 

[jaqie]

www.ninite.com

Beat me to it.

Avast free/AVG free
Firefox LTS (with FEBE and my old febe backup)
buncha old win7 gadgets
7zip 9.20
ultimate windows tweaker
classic shell
CCCP (combined community codec pack) with media player classic
qbittorrent
vmware player
winamp 2.95
splashtop
notepad2
objectdock (non free, bought)
coretemp
volume2
windowspace
gmail notifier w/ https regfile
miranda IM
skype v5.3
hexchat
wincdemu
macrium reflect free
silverlight
foxit pdf reader 2.1
breakaway audio enhancer
a VBscript to restart the sidebar
skypath
keytweak
ccleaner
defraggler
spacemonger (defunct, bought full version before company died)
speccy
dataram ramdisk
filezilla
fraps
cpu-z
gpu-z
hdtune free
angry ip scanner
activeports
autoruns
prime95
teracopy
fotosizer
jasc paint shop pro 7
furmark
windows 7 xp mode

If I find any of these not installed when I need them I really get in a bad mood, so yeah they are all essential to me.

 

[radhak]

For those who dont know.

Customize your basic installs (winrar, flash, IMs, foobar, etc) into a batch download and install, go to www.ninite.com

Wow! That's a time-saver I should have known about! Thanks!

 

[Pardus]

ActiveSMART
Apple ITunes
Ariolic Disk Scanner
CCleaner
Chrome
ClamWinPortable
Classic Shelll
Crystal Disk Info
Firefox
Freemake Video Converter
Freemake Video Downloader
Handbrake
JoinMe
Kompozer
MPC-HC x64
Microsoft Office 2013
Nero Burning Rom
Nitro PDF Professional (acrobat sucks)
Notepad++
Photoshop CS6
Super AntiSpyware
Todo Backup 6.0 Free
VLC media player
VMWare Workstation
WinRAR
Windows Defender

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Microsoft Office
Keypass
Chrome
Handbrake
Google Drive
VLC
MPC-HC
Foxit
7-zip
Notepad++

Those are pretty much the essentials. If I need something else I'll just install it as I need it.

 

[blankslate]

Utilities

• Auslogics Disk Defrag
• CCleaner
• Glary Utilities
• 7-Zip
• Ultradefrag

Internet

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Torrent Client
• Youtube downloader
• Streamripper for winamp

Media

• VLC
• Winamp
• mp3 gain
• Audacity with mp3 encoder for audacity

Security

• MSE, AVAST, or Avira depending on the machine (Norton in rare cases)
• MBAM
• SuperAntiSpyWare
• Spyware Blaster
• also regular online scans by ESET, Kaspersky and others

Also

Libre Office and Java for the extra functionality.

Those are the main ones anything else I get as needed.

 

[mrwindta]

chrome
ccleaner
MSE
avg free
k lite codec
rocket dock
winrar
FL studio 11 (loads of vst & samples)

 

[OGOC]

Thunderbird
FreeCommander
WizMouse

 

[assimilation]

chrome
malwarebytes
ccleaner
Office 2010
VLC
winrar
irfanview (lol)