Essential Apps You Should Install on a New PC Running Windows or macOS

[DelJo63]

Picasa 3 will browse picture folders nicely ... May be obsolete now however

 

[ddferrari]

It's 2018 and tech journalists still don't recognize privacy respecting ToSes as an important factor while choosing the right apps to use. Shame.

Why don't you share your knowledge about ToS, rather than going the snarky route? Shame.

 

[Potato Judge]

First, I need a new system before I can install those things. lol.

 

[Nero7]

Does anyone know a good blu ray player preferably for free? They're such a pain.
btw.
For images the FastStone image viewer is sublime.
AnyVideoConverter is also a useful freeware.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Does anyone know a good blu ray player preferably for free?

Wish I could help, but I only burn BD for personal storage. I've no experience with BD movies and their anti-piracy measures.

 

[DickSlice]

Password Manager: Bitwarden ,RememBear you need to add these

 

[indiferenc]

What about Windows 10 store apps?

lmfao nice

 

[verysame]

Does anyone know a good blu ray player preferably for free? They're such a pain.
btw.
For images the FastStone image viewer is sublime.
AnyVideoConverter is also a useful freeware.

Try VSO Media Player.

 

[verysame]

I also wanted to add another image viewer to the list.
I tried many, and before I mentioned Honeyview, which is great but memory hug.
Other good image viewers, on top of the ones already suggested:
ImageGlass
Nomacs

I'm using the latter as my default image viewer and it's great. The only issue is a slow start, but it could depend on the fact the I'm using the portable version from a SATA hard drive, rather than running it from my SSD. Other than that, it's more memory efficient than other viewers (with XNview & IrfanView still the best in that regard) and can be configured as a complete borderless viewer, which feels nice.

 

[Meanmuggin20]

No mention of Mp3s. What do you all use? I'm still using an old version of Winamp, still my favorite mp3 player 20 years later. Also gotta have 7zip.

Still using Winamp Pro after all these years, best mp3 player by far.

 

[milostuvic]

I usually when I do a clean install of windows get Chrome VLC media player Avast antivirus Microsoft office win RAR and Daemon tools lite.

 

[regiq]

Why don't you share your knowledge about ToS, rather than going the snarky route? Shame.

My knowledge? You really don't read the license terms while installing apps..? At least authors of articles like that one should.
But well, if you ask, I try not to use the ones in which the user is THE PRODUCT.
https://tosdr.org/

 

[ddferrari]

My knowledge? You really don't read the license terms while installing apps..? At least authors of articles like that one should.
But well, if you ask, I try not to use the ones in which the user is THE PRODUCT.
https://tosdr.org/

Well thank you- now that was helpful! I just added the extension to my browser.

 

[DavidBailey]

First, I need a new system before I can install those things. lol.

First install Macrium Reflect & make a full system image of your present OS.

 

[MirekFe]

Total Commander has been my choice of file manager for 20 years. After hearing about Double Commander, I checked it out. At first there is differences. But after a few changes in the options, I can make Double Commander look and operate exactly as I have Total Commander configured. I'd even be willing to bet Double Commander is more configurable than Total Commander.

One of the nice things I like about Double Commander vs Total Commander. Total Commander is not cross-platform, where as Double Commander is cross-platform. If I was to migrate to Linux, I'd have no choice but to switch to Double Commander.

Extra information for anyone interested in using Double Commander.

It is compatible with:
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, and BSD.

 

[DavidBailey]

I like to have a YouTube downloader.
I have a 1.4 GHz computer & videos constantly rebuffer over 240P at YouTube.
So I download them as MP4 & play them on WMP.
Mostly as 1080P (full HD).
Then I delete them after watching them.
I do this a lot with videos by Sir David Attenborough.
The Queen was right to make him a "Sir".
There are lots of video downloaders out there.
Some free & some paid.
Watching a video that is of high quality without it jamming up & buffering is a good thing to me.

 

[mattsie]

You lost me with CCleaner! I feel this is more of an advertisement than actual advice

 

[DavidBailey]

You lost me with CCleaner! I feel this is more of an advertisement than actual advice

Who is the "You" you are referring to ?
Your response is a bit vague.

Have you ever used CCleaner ?
https://www.ccleaner.com/

EDIT--- I've used it since it was called Crap Cleaner.
It works good & I've never had a problem with it.
Make a system image of your OS & try it out.
If it causes problems, reinstall from your system image.

Edit 2--- That is if you can trust restore points or a program like Macrium Reflect.

 

[mmd nmvr]

Here's my essentials:
Pot Player
Internet Download Manager
Steam
Telegram
WinRAR
Cisco AnyConnect
I don't use anti-virus or any other kind of security-related apps, because all I do is gaming so I don't wanna be disturbed by anti-viruses eating the bandwidth or slowing down the computer.

 

[centrino207]

Why did no one talk about open office, webshots, brave, Firefox and movie maker?

 

[Boilerhog146]

Weather app ,prefer the weather network. get environment Canada warnings.
maps ,Google maps preferred,Hunting and Flyfishing ,angling,etc maps are excellent for marking trails and hard to find cutthroughs,fishing spots.
Blueray player.Power DVD , currently on 12 ultra ,has 3D upscale ability.
Burning software ,Usually a version of Nero and DVDshrink for copying my rented movies.

 

[Shepdawg]

One that I have recently found and am using more and more is Mega. Another cloud based storage but with instant access to 50 GB of on line storage, encryption, folders sharing, stores any kind of file, has a zip tool that's easy to use, its on all my devices, uploading is fast and its has drag and drop. There is more and I kind alike that its not a big guy.

 

[Mustafa OZCAN]

Palemoon, BandiZIP, Aimp, Potplayer, SumatraPDF, Avast, Fastone Capture (Old - Free Version), Notepad++, Backupper, FreeFileSync, WPS Office, 4K Video Downloader, Any Video Converter

 

[Julio Franco]

We've made a new revision to this article. You helped us build it and complete it, your feedback is welcome as usual.

 

[alabama man]

Didn't apple have a whole marketing campaign stating it's not a PC and that PC users are ugly and fat. So isn't PC always running windows or linux? Or was apple just lying and it is a PC?