Essential Software
The following are list of software freely available on net or with Computer Magazine CDs like DIGIT. These will greatly improve the system performance. |
Latest Internet Explorer
Latest Direct X driver : For smooth running of games.
Latest Windows Media player - great looks, skins, sound but resource hungry.
Runtime dlls
RealPlayer is needed to play files of this format over the net.
Winzip : For compressing files to save hard disk space and share files with friends over the net
Winamp : Best for playing the audio files. Check out plugins for Winamp, which will make it even better. Unlike Windows media player, not hungry on resources.
Adobe Acrobat Reader : needed to read text in the " .pdf " format
Irfanview is the best freeware image viewer. you have options like thumbnail view, slide show like exploring of your images. Images can fit on your screen for full view at the click of mouse.
FlashGet will not only speed up your downloads by downloading the software in simultaneous parts, but also can continue broken downloads if your net connection gets cut off in the middle of a download.
MSN / Yahoo messenger will help you to chat with friends online.
Antivirus software: If you can get McAfee or Norton it's good. Else go for the free ones like AVG antivirus.
Search the web with multiple search engines - Google+Altavista+Excite+..... = Copernic
Microsoft Office is powerful tool to make presentations, simplify the task of writing letters, maintain database etc. Alternatively to view the different files of the MS office tool you can get Microsoft Reader, but you won't be able to create word documents