Post what apps you install after you reisntall your OS...

On a standard PC, I will install:
Windows XP Professional
All the updates, including IE7
Latest video and sound drivers
Microsoft Office XP, with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
WinRAR
Firefox 2, latest version
Java, latest version
Avast! antivirus Home
VideoLAN Media Player
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8
PuTTY

If the system has a DVD Burner, I will install
Nero 7 Premium

If the system will be used for media editing, I will install:

Sony Vegas 7.0
Sony DVD Architect 4.0
Sony Audio Studio 8/9c
Audacity. latest version
Adobe Master Collection CS3
Adobe Audition CS3
Adobe Loopology DVD

If it will be used for character animation, i will install
Poser 6
Poser 7
Adobe Photoshop CS3
Sony Vegas 7

So what about you?

Windows XP Professional SP2

Adobe Reader
AntiVir
Azureus Vuze
DAEMON Tools
Everest Ultimate
FileZilla
FDM
iTunes
IZarc
Mozilla Firefox
Nero
Notepad++
Paint.NET
PE Explorer
Pidgin
UltraISO
ZoneAlarm
FileTransfer Manager
Virtual PC
MS Office
Visual Studio
Paint Shop Pro
Live Messenger
Live Mail

Portable:

mIRC, VLC, Firefox, WinRAR, ImgBurn, uTorrent

Installed:

KLite Codec Pack w/Media Player Classic, Foxit Reader


Then whatever else I need/when I need it.

for windows xp i install winrar,ccleaner, spybot, avast antivirus,7 zip,bitlord,reshacker,db poweramp,Dexster audio editor,Enhance Movie 2.2, foxit pdf reader,Hydra IRC,irfanview,memturbo,orbit downloader,Winlame,swf opener,system mechanic 6,Ultraiso,Vlc mediaplayer,image grabber 2,vmware 6.0.

Windows XP Professional SP3 v3244

Adobe Reader 6.0
AVG Free
DAEMON Tools
FileZilla
FDM
Mozilla Firefox
PE Explorer
UltraSO
Virtual PC
MS Office
Visual Studio
Paint Shop Pro

PC-Decrapifier
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (VB, C#, C++, MSDN)
iTunes
Firefox
Adobe Flash Player (Firefox plugin installer always fails for me..)
AVG Free
Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Wubi 7.10 (r. 386)
Pidgin
OpenOffice.org 2.3
Foxit Reader
Microsoft Student (got it for free from Microsoft, use it for shop)
VirtualBox
Mono framework for Windows
SharpDevelop
and an HTML Editor that I wrote for a shop project

Windows XP Pro

In no particular order...

Adobe Photoshop 7.0
NetSupport
Adobe Reader
FileZilla FTP Client
FireFox
mIRC
Hamachi
MSN Messenger 7.5 and aPatch
WinAmp
GetRight Download Manager
AVG Professional Edition
Image Resize Powertoy
WinRAR
Microsoft Office 2000

I think thats about it.

Vista x64

K-Meleon
Office 2007
VS 2008 (team)
Foxit PDF
AC3d
Defraggler
OpenPandora
StarCraft
Heroes of Might and Magic 3

On a > 1,2 GHz machine:
Windows XP Professional SP2
Microsoft Office 2007
WinRar
7 Zip
Winimage 8.0
Windows Live Messenger 8.1
Filezilla
Utorrent
Netscape Navigator 9.0 (with adblock)
Netscape Messenger 9.0
Internet Explorer 7.0
Windows Media Player 11
iTunes
VLC Media Player
FLV Player
WMware 5.0
Virtual PC 2007
Bochs 2.3.6
PearPC
eXescope
Borland Resource Workshop
Resource Hacker 3.4
and Limewire


On a 600MHz-1,2GHz Machine
Windows 2000 Professional SP4
Microsoft Office 2000 Premium
Winrar
7 Zip
Winimage 8.0
MSN Messenger 7.5
Filezilla Utorrent
Netscape Navigator 9.0 (with adblock)
Netscape Messenger 9.0
Internet Explorer 6.0
Windows Media Player 9
iTunes
VLC Media Player
FLV Player
WMware 5.0
Virtual PC 2004
Bochs 2.3.6
Utorrent
Limewire

On a 100MHz-600MHz machine:
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation SP6a or Windows 95 OSR 2.1
Microsoft Office 97 Professional
Winrar
MSN Messenger 5.0
DirectX 8.0a (win 95) or DirectX 5.0 Beta (NT)
Internet Explorer 5.5 (6.0 on NT)
Opera 9.0
Netscape Communicator 4.51
Windows Media Player 6.4
VLC Media Player
Winamp 2.64
Bochs

On a 386-100MHz machine:
MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11
Microsoft Office 4.3
WinZip 6.3
TCP/IP protocol
Internet Explorer 5.0
Opera 3.62
Netscape Communicator 4.03
WinPlay
Xing
Real Player 5.0
QuickTime 2.12

For me it's usually XP Pro, Media Center, or Fundamentals with SP2... I'll install it, then get all the necessary drivers onto it. Then I'll download the 70-or-so updates (I know, I probably should get AutoPatcher someday..)


Then I put in my AutoInstall CD I hacked together long ago, which automatically installs:
The latest Windows Installer
Windows Media Player 11
Adobe Reader 8 - however it's a trimmed down version. It still sucks, but not as much.
Audacity
AVG
DVDShrink
DVD43
EditPad Lite
FileZilla
Firefox with the Adobe Flash plugin
Hashtab - gives you MD5 and CRC32 hashes when you right-click a file
IrfanView
IsoBuster
Java
Windows Live Writer
Nero 6.6
.NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0 (I should upgrade it to install 3.5 now..)
IzArc
RealAlternative
PeerGuardian
SpybotS&D
All the SysInternals utilities
ResHacker
uTorrent
VLC
VirtualPC
VirtualBox
The UxTheme patcher + some really nice themes including Watercolor and System5
Windows Media Encoder
DebugMode Wink
The XP PowerToys
..and a nice codec pack which takes care of Xvid and all that stuff.

After that I'll install Office (2007 or 2003 depending on which machine), then a few other apps like Sony Vegas, Macromedia Studio 8, After Effects, Visual Studio 2005, etc. depending on what I'm using it for.

Currently I install on new PCs...

Mozilla Firefox (always the first thing)
Adblock Plus add-on
WinRAR
avast! Home Edition
Spybot S&D
VLC Media Player
Mozilla Thunderbird
Universal Extractor (good for those pesky themeXP installers)
CDBurnerXP
FileZilla
Microsoft Office 2003/2007 (depends on system specs)
Microsoft Math (on my newer boxen)
mIRC
WinImage, WinISO
Audacity
Bluetooth stack (BlueSoelil)
uTorrent

On Mine:

Windows FLP
IE7
WMP11
DX9.0c (latest)
Acrobat 8.1 Pro
Nero 8 Ultra Ed.
iMesh (latest)
WinRAR
Universal Extractor
Firefox
Office 2007 Enterprise
Visual C++ Express '08
Visual Basic Express '05

On mine(just finished reformat yesterday, p4 2.8ghz, 1.5gb ram):
Firefox 2(used to be 3, but I need addons)
iTunes
Office 2007
Vista
Windows live photo gallery
desktop corral
Rocketdock
stacks preview docklet
Leopard theme for rocketdock
Apple outerspace wallpaper
filezilla

On a laptop(>3yrs old):
Ubuntu 7.10
Compiz
Firefox
Awn
Picasa
Other than that ubuntu comes with everything I need

It's pretty straignt forward.

A whole mob of utilities.

• 4nt and take command
• regina rexx and McPhee's DLLs
• file commander / w, shelexec
• semware editor for windows
• factor
• zip, unzip, rar (command line),
• hexit amd a few listers
• depend and depends
• ntsubst
• dskimage, extract (winimage),
• iview (os2 help reader)
• rramdisk
• shortcut

All this gets dumped into a directory, and added to the DOS patjh environment. From here, i run setup rexx to modify the desktop icons, and add new ones to the \sendto and \system directories.

At this moment, mu main box is 2000, has burnatonce, larcen commander, azzcardfile, winimage, unknown devices, and boswell-toller (Old english dictionary) on it, along with the usual adobe, look-out depress, thunderburd, and irfanview.

Office is by open-office 2.3 and microsoft.

DOS etc are tested at 12 inches (ie real boot), although i have vpc 2004 and vpc 2005, virtualbox 1.52, and some other things.

browsers by opera. microsoft ie6, ie7 (on xp/vista), firefox, and lister.

graphics by pmview and irfanview, although i use ms paint to make pictures. Wallpapers by everyone (i collect operating system wallpapers, DOS, Windows, OS/2).

Then i install some games

• vista ultimate
• Wep 5

avg free & updates
foxit reader
utorrent
k-lite codec pack & mpc
winamp
filezilla
firefox
virtual pc
winrar
ultra iso
office 2003
effective file search
axialis icon workshop
regmon

It depends entirely what I intend to use the system for...
But if it's my system used for fiddling with system files, then the list would
be pretty long...
Just a few that come to mind would be my own reshack, exescope &
XVi32 hex editing packages...
A few years ago I made package for all 3, that installs them to the
program files folder, & adds the appropriate registry entries in the registry
so that I can right click on any compatible file & open it there & then...
Plus I made a reg file that opens .sys files with notepad when right clicking
on them, mostly for bootdisks though...
Then I install the command here onto the right click menu as well, plus
a right click option to have the ability to compress a file to the cab format
with the trailing underscore...
Then there's the right click menu option to "peek" into a file for a quick
binary comparison...
Then there's the right click option to see a files checksum...
The right click option to change a files attributes, dates etc etc...
Then theres the right click option to register/unregister a dll or ocx menu
option...
The right click option to change the uper/lower case of a file...
Then

Open Watcom
7zip
winrar
winimage
universal extractor
pe explorer
hex workshop
iso buster
ico edit
recase
xn resource editor
wdasm8
softice + the video driver pack update
a couple of crack compiling programs, I wont mention what though so don't ask.

then the everyday programs like
acrobat
office
Nero 6, not 7, 7's puss as far as i'm concerned...
registry 1st aid
media player classic with updated codecs
filezilla
anydvd
clonedvd
clonecd2
cdimageui
cabpack 1.4a
stellar phoenix
unit convertor
Net transport download manager
messenger
xp antispy if it's an XP system
crap cleaner
If it's a system that I make certain types of programs on then I don't
use an anti virus program, just sandboxie
Otherwise I use Avast...
The usual powertoys like tweakui etc etc
Eraser , either 5.7 or 5.82, I prefer 5.7 though...

Here's a couple of pics with the right click menu options
showing, I love riught click shortcuts for saving time
obviously...
& VPC, 2004 though, stuck in my ways here...

KenOath, you couldn't post the source of your makecab send to extension could you?

i use a similar thing: "makecab %1 %1._"
but then i get 'shell32.dll._' which can be annoying

@Peteski:
Just should be enough as it will then put the compressed file into the source's directory under the same name, with the last letter of the extension being an underscore.

For making cabs...


For extracting cabs...

Windows 2000 SP4 (or my customized build)
Office XP
Firefox (since IE is no longer supported; for some sites)

And that's really it.

I don't really reinstall Windows anymore I just use Ghost to update and re-image my system. If anything ever happens I just jump back to my last image. As for programs, the contents of my Start menu is as follows:

Ad-Aware SE Personal
Adobe ImageReady 7.0
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
Adobe Reader 8
Apple Software Update
ewido_micro
FileZilla
Final Draft 7
Floppy Image
foobar2000
Google Earth
Google Talk
Internet Explorer 7
iTunes
Microsoft Office
Mozilla Firefox
Nero Burning ROM 7
Norton Ghost
Pidgin
PuTTY
QuickTime
RealPlayer
Riva FLV Encoder
Skype
TightVNC (Viewer)
Tweak UI
µTorrent
VLC media player
Windows Live Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger

Linux kernel 2.6 + AppArmor
madwifi latest SVN's trunk
Firefox
lifera
evolution
openSSH client & server
samba
kismet
dsniff
wireshark
macchanger
wget
perl
openvpn
corkscrew
tightvnc
netcat
nano
gnupg
socat
vlc
latest metasploit
rtorrent
wifitap
aircrack-ng
and nmap.

On an fully encrypted harddrive

Uh,

Windows XP Professional SP2

Ad-Aware SE Professional
Adobe Reader 8
Apple Software Update
FileZilla
Google Earth
Internet Explorer 7
iTunes
Microsoft Office 2003
Mozilla Firefox
Nero Burning ROM 6
Pidgin
PuTTY
QuickTime
RealVNC
Trillian
Tweak UI
µTorrent
VLC media player
VMware Workstation
Winamp
Windows Live Messenger

That's about all off the top of my head

the file compresses perfectly however it is dumped in cd, which in my case is C:\Users\Administrator\
is there anyway that cd can be changed to the 'real working directory' so this doesn't happen?
i always remembered it going horribly wrong when i didn't specify an output.


thank you, this method seems to have better compression than makecab aswell.

Vista/2003

Opera
foobar2000 (High quality media player)
VLC
AzSMRC (Azureus remote control software)
Windows Live Messenger + A-Patch
Adobe Audtion (Lots of fun with audio)
Proteus 7 Pro (Electronics simulation software for school)
Siemens STEP-7 MicroWin (PLC programming software for school)
Office 2007
Deepburner
Adobe Flash (Making goatse flash things and drawing simple diagrams)
Steam
WinRAR
PuTTy
Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Photoshop)
Adobe Lightroom (Photo editing and publishing)