Comments on: Fresh Vista Installation, What To Install First? http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/10/13/fresh-vista-installation-what-to-install-first/ My Experiences with Software Development Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:03:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Shevek http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/10/13/fresh-vista-installation-what-to-install-first/#comment-24136 Shevek Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:15:06 +0000 http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/10/13/fresh-vista-installation-what-to-install-first/#comment-24136 There is an app which I have used for many years now which jumps in whenever a Startup object is created, wherever that may be on your system - Start Menu Startup folder, Run or RunOnce registry for Current and All Users, etc, etc. It's a great bit of freeware from Mike Lin called StartupMonitor - http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml There is an app which I have used for many years now which jumps in whenever a Startup object is created, wherever that may be on your system - Start Menu Startup folder, Run or RunOnce registry for Current and All Users, etc, etc.

It's a great bit of freeware from Mike Lin called StartupMonitor - http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml

]]> By: Adam Nofsinger http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/10/13/fresh-vista-installation-what-to-install-first/#comment-23076 Adam Nofsinger Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:23 +0000 http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/2007/10/13/fresh-vista-installation-what-to-install-first/#comment-23076 foobar2000 - super quick and lite on the resource usage or Quintessential - like winamp only better skinning, plug-ins, and opens faster Combined Community Codec Pack - get all the audio/video codecs you should ever need in one easy install Real Alternative - lite, less "commercial" alternative to Real Player TUGzip KeePass - store all your passwords in an encrypted file Thunderbird - if you still have one of those archaic POP3 or IMAP accounts not forwarding to gmail Synergy - since you mentioned you have a secondary computer, "software kvm switch" is great for working both Windows Live Writer Beta MS Power Toys - PowerToy Calculator and TweakUI (do these exist for Vista?) Some stuff I use that is an alternative to what you use: Notepad++ Find and Run Robot (FARR) OpenOffice Innotek VirtualBox foobar2000 - super quick and lite on the resource usage
or Quintessential - like winamp only better skinning, plug-ins, and opens faster
Combined Community Codec Pack - get all the audio/video codecs you should ever need in one easy install
Real Alternative - lite, less "commercial" alternative to Real Player

TUGzip
KeePass - store all your passwords in an encrypted file
Thunderbird - if you still have one of those archaic POP3 or IMAP accounts not forwarding to gmail
Synergy - since you mentioned you have a secondary computer, "software kvm switch" is great for working both
Windows Live Writer Beta
MS Power Toys - PowerToy Calculator and TweakUI (do these exist for Vista?)

Some stuff I use that is an alternative to what you use:
Notepad++
Find and Run Robot (FARR)
OpenOffice
Innotek VirtualBox

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