Software to install on a fresh PC

Posted by Eric Polerecky in technologyJun 9th, 2009 | 2 responses

Here is a list of the software I install on a new PC. This post is kind of similar to my tools list but its timely. I’m having some serious problems with my workstation at work. Visual Studio crashes when opening .JS and .ASPX file, my ODBC connection manager is, what’s the technical term, borked?, Even when defragmented, as much as can be in XP, it takes 86 seconds to delete a file and worst of all Songbird wont start!

  1. Visual Studio 2008 w/ SP1 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
  2. SQL Server 2008 Express with Tools
  3. TweetDeck
  4. 7-Zip
  5. Notepad++
  6. LINQPad
  7. Songbird
  8. ReSharper
  9. Chrome
  10. Firefox
  11. Firefox Addon – Web Developer
  12. Firefox Addon – Firebug
  13. Firefox Addon – YSlow
  14. Firefox Addon – FireCookie
  15. Firefox Addon – MeasureIt
  16. Firefox Addon – ColorZilla
  17. Firefox Addon – Delicious
  18. FeedReader
  19. SourceMonitor
  20. SnagIt
  21. Visio (I assume word, etc is already installed)
  22. Windows Live Writer
  23. ITunes
  24. FxCop
  25. Tortoise Svn
  26. FileBox Extender

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2 Responses to “Software to install on a fresh PC”

  1. PC Rebuild – Check, Clean PC…Fail - Eric Polerecky says:
    June 10, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    [...] workstation is how I would have expected it. From here I can spend the rest of the day installing all this software Share and [...]

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  2. Eric says:
    June 14, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Good list! You might want to also check out Tamper Data (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/96... another Firefox addon for working with form data and http headers.

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