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[kulich]

I am in the midst of transferring a large collection of apps from here and there (work and home). These are programs that I've run across in the last 5 years and tried at least once - and they no longer fit on 1, no make that 2 ... well 3 cds. Things like three versions of winzip (pkzip/quickzip etc), a couple of netscapes, opera, cleaners, managers, tons of audio stuff, tweakers, OSs and so on.

Then I was struck with the realization that I'll never use most of this again - either it gets superceeded or my tastes change.

But there are a few apps that I put on every machine I come across. My first modification on any new install or visit to a friends house is always a sendto anywhere extension. I'm using one made by Goosoft, whose site seems to be down.

What other apps do people use that have stood the test of time?

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[smurfy]

Well now...
Irfanview
StartupCop
ZoneAlarm
ICQ
X-Setup

AOL5 - Ha Ha http://www.helpfromtechs.com/ubb/smilies/grin.gif - Just Kidding!!!

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Smurfy
I'm here (http://www.suggestafix.com) and here (http://www.cybertechhelp.com)

[Jaturp]

That`s not funny,smurf...AOL5.0 is better than...uh....uh...The Flu.JT.

Tclock.exe
atomtime
MusicMatch
CookiePal
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[Dondo]

Dimension4 (atomic clock)
TClock
ICQ
WinZip
MusicMatch

recently, I also began using WebWasher and Ad-Aware, and I think that these will also become a regular part of my re-install lineup.

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[Techguy]

Lets see...
Acrobat reader, AdAware, Photoshop, ICQ, Jammer, MS Office, Visual Basic, NetLab, PC-cillin, ZoneAlarm, WS_FTP, Tauscan, WinZip

but I dont actually reinstall, I have a GHOST image on my special partition, so I just clone...

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"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer"

[airratt301b]

Enzip(free zip&unzip),Zone Alarm v2.1,Srip32.EXE(free screen capture),Acrobat reader v4.02S

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Steve

[kulich]

Wow! Some of you folks pack big stuff around. I'd have to agree with ghost and I'm real fond of winME defrag and win98 scanreg for all win95 machines.

And ...

clean.bat (and its cousins)
spider
cacheman
oleclean
scmpx (mp3 - wav)

for older machines - Win98Lite

They all fit on a floppy or take seconds to download. Yikes, I'm living in the dark ages.

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