New toy
Welcome to my new laptop! It arrived this morning and is all new and fresh... and red! I went for the Dell Studio 15 in the end, with a bit of an upgrade on the processor. I know Dell isn't everyone's favourite, but in terms of bang for buck, it came out very well on the offer. I did get the free colour case upgrade (RED!) but I wasn't shallow
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VLC Media player - plays just about every video format going, as well as audio files, Nice simple interface.
IrfanView - Photo viewing and basic editing. Handles just about every image format and converts between them.
If you need more than very basic image editing, download Paint.NET. It's a free alternative to Photoshop.
Foxit Reader - Fast PDF viewer. (Actually less of an issue since Adobe Reader 9 opens a lot quicker than previous versions) If you need to create PDFs, download CutePDF Writer. It creates a virtual printer that will convert your document into a PDF when you print to it.
IZarc - Compression software (Like WinZip) that handles most common archive formats - Zip, Rar, Tar, etc.
I would also go for Malwarebytes Antimalware (the best malware scanner I've found so far), and Auslogic Defrag (It's faster than Windows own one, and unlike Vista's you can see the progress it's making.)
If you use torrents, uTorrent is the best client I've found. (If you don't know what a torrent is, you don't need this)
Oh, and if you don't have Microsoft Office, download OpenOffice. You'll then at least be able to open Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
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