Computer Infos

8 Comments for this entry

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  chuky172
  February 9th, 2010 on 9:10 pm

  Mozilla Firefox (web browser)
  Trillian Basic (Instant messenger)
  I use avast for antivirus
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  I don't know
  February 9th, 2010 on 10:08 pm

  OpenOffice – view/edit everything.
  Kazaa Lite Codec Pack – Everything to play every media.
  InfranView – Nice Photo and media tool.
  EAC + LAME – Turn those CDs to MP3.
  FireFox + Thunderbird – To browse Yahoo! Answers.
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  dylanwalker1
  February 9th, 2010 on 10:11 pm

  Windows XP. Turn on the Windows Updates to automatically download and install Windows updates, otherwise he won’t do it.

  Also, enable the firewall or use a third party firewall like Norton.

  Be sure to also DL SPK2 for Win XP.

  And lastly but not least, a computer is only as good as the idiot sitting in front of it. If he screws it up there’s no software package on earth that will ever make things the way they were when the box was new.
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  samitg2003
  February 9th, 2010 on 10:52 pm

  You should install the good stuff…. not this free junk.
  Vlc and WinRar/WinZip is pretty much the good stuff I see. If you know wheat kind of internet service you brother has, like Comcast HSI, then your brother can gett free McAfee Spyware, Internet Security, and AntiVirus for free. And use Nero, Roxio, or NTI for the Cd Burning, they are some good and reliable cd burning softwares. And make sure you dont give him some crappy OS. Microsoft Office 2003 Professional. Fully Update the computer and turn on Automatic Updates. Give him a TV Tuner or something and throw in Windows Media Center Edition.
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  forwardred
  February 9th, 2010 on 11:30 pm

  FireFox and Irfan View.

  FireFox is an open-source internet browser and a million times better than Internet Explorer. Make sure to get 2 extensions: AdBlock and Filterset.G Updater. Adblock gets rid of those annoying ads beautifully and Filterset.G Updater automatically updates the adblock list.

  Irfan View is a free small image editing program. Very nice. I do professional web design and the big reason I use it is that it can make icon files.

  Oh, yeah. And a paid for Anti-Virus program that updates from time to time.
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  Waleed
  February 9th, 2010 on 11:48 pm

  after these security and CDs burning soft wares, you should also install the some office’s software that will help your brother to work his text (e.g. openoffice.org or Microsoft office). what about some messengers to chat with friends (e.g. AOL, ICQ, pal talk, etc)
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  Mordak
  February 10th, 2010 on 12:06 am

  Since the questions you have asked is similar to a lot that appear on answers, I have prepared this to aid you. Topics covered are: Anti virus, Anti spyware, Browsers, e-mail, Word processors, Database, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Drawings and Photo manipulations. All programmes described are free to use, some even for commercial use.

  Antiviral.
  AVG free. Excellent protection available from: http://www.Grisoft.com

  Don’t use two antiviral products together as they may be incompatible. If your Antiviral trial has run out, then remove product from your computer and get the AVG installed.

  Antispyware
  Essential products are: Adaware SE from: http://www.lavasoft.com
  Spybot SD from: Download.com or similar, Tucows etc
  Spywareblaster “ “ “ “
  Windows Defender – from Microsoft downloads.

  Office Applications
  Open Office has an extremely good free to use and distribute product at http://www.openoffice.org

  It contains programmes fully functional in Word-processing, Database, Spreadsheets, Drawing and Presentation. It looks and feels like Microsoft Office and can even make PDF’s

  Photo-manipulations
  For ease of use and management of your photo files try Kodak easyshare software or Picasso.

  For advanced and fully functional photographic manipulation gimp2 is very similar to Photoshop and is available from http://gimp.org

  Browsers and E-mail programmes.
  Can recommend Firefox for browsing and has many safety features installed and is self updating and for a general e-mail programme, Thunderbird is very good. Go to:

  http://www.mozilla.com/products/

  Fun and helpful programmes
  Have a look at Calendar Magic, it has lots of Scientific, Geometry, Factor and Expression calculators as well as Global distances, Sun and Moon Data, a Pregnancy Calculator, Time Data and Alarm clocks as well as an extremely comprehensive range of Calendars in about 27 different formats from Afghanistan to Vietnamese, including Chinese and Hindu.

  C Cleaner.http://www.ccleaner.com/
  This will tell you a lot about what is on your computer, such as running programmes,cookies, History, settings etc. and will help you clean up and remove unwanted items. Be careful how you use it as it is a very powerful programme and you should read the help index before you do anything with it.

  Hope this information is of help to you and others.
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  rmpbklyn
  February 10th, 2010 on 12:48 am

  office suite: open office http://openoffice.org

  paint/graphic editor: gimp http://www.gimp.org/

  web suite( browser, email, composer, news group): sea monkey http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

  text editor: notepad++: http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/about.php

  pdf reader: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

  file manager, explorer replacement: http://www.freecommander.com/index_en.htm

  music& video player: winamp http://www.winamp.com/player/

  window clean up: ccleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/

  sticky notes for desktop: turbo note http://www.turbonote.com/ v3.4 is freeware

  real time spyware protection: http://www.prevx.com/ v2.1 is freeware

  instant message – for multiple ip- aim, yahoo, msn…: trillion im http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/ ‘basic’ is freeware