I am installing a new laptop harddrive for the third time in three months. It’s a long boring story. Anyway, here is my list of essential freeware (all of it googleable) that I plan to reinstall.
gaim
putty
mozilla
explorer updates
winmedia updates
win2k updates
open office: I only need Word to open wordperfect files that I keep getting (Utah is the former home of WordPerfect)
nvivo
palm desktop
irfanview
gimp
gtk
cms disk cleaner
netstumbler
ws_ftple
iceows
winamp
razor
cdex
dvix
Gimp for windows
Matrix html editor
Notetab lite
Audacity
handful of batch files.
This time around I’m burning a cd with all of these in one place, so that recovery will be a little quicker the next time.
What’s on your list of essential Windows freeware?