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Whats a good Cocktail?

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So where I work we use what we call the Cocktail when we reinstall an operating system, or just when we build a system, and we are trying to make it the best group of software we can get, I will list all of the things we use and why we use them, and if you have anything you think we should change or if there is something out there that you don’t think I don’t know about PLEASE post!! (all software in our cocktail is FREEWARE)

1. Mozilla Firefox – Internet Browsing
2. Adobe Reader/Player – Self Explanatory
3. OpenOffice – Free MS Word
4. VLC Media Player – the codec/good player
5. AVG – Anti Virus
6. ADAWARE – Anti Adaware
7. Spybot – Anti Spyware
8. Malwarebytes – antimalware/scan and remove viruses

Once again if you know of any other good things, please post!!

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I always add
CDBurner XP – http://cdburnerxp.se/
Don’t let the name fool you. It works very well on 2000 / XP / Vista and 7

7-Zip – http://www.7-zip.org/
Great light-weight compression tool. Also handy for extracting ISO images

Primo PDF – http://www.primopdf.com/index.aspx
PDF creator.

Not offered as cocktail

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CD burnerxp is offered, thanks i forgot to list it, but we offer the adobe for pdf

Couple

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Irfanview or Picasso
Primo PDF (creates not just reads like Adobe Reader).

FoxIt

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One of the other Techs here suggested FoxIt, any comments

I find it preferable to Adobe because …

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With Adobe you’ve got between 60MB and 95MB for the footprint.

Foxit (including both the Reader and the Editor) gives a footprint of LESS than 5MB.

i’m fond of

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superantispyware and ccleaner as well

Thanks

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ah yes, we use ccleaner for clean up after repair, but we don’t leave it on the machine, and is superantispyware better than spybot?

not necessarily better

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as opposed to different…most of those programs will scan for different things…spybot looks for bots, keyloggers, etc where superantispyware looks for other forms of spyware…and I keep ccleaner, use it to clear my history and temp files once a week instead of having to do it manually (I’m lazy 😉 )

Different?

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So do SuperAntiSpyware and Spybot search for the same thing?

after doing a bit of research

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popular consensous is that superantispyware is the better product…i did a google search http://www.google.com/search?q=superantispyware+vs+spybot&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1 i personally will be keeping spybot because i like it, but i like superantispyware too…so…personal preference i suppose

Re: Cocktails

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Not to be a stick in the mud but I don’t believe that AVG and MalwareBytes are not free for commercial/corporate use. They are only free for home use.

AVG not free

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Just like to point out that AVG is not free for the usage you describe…

http://free.avg.com/gb-en/download-avg-anti-virus-free

Spybot no longer is either.

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Not for Corp, nor education.

or ad-aware …

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http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Linux is free though 😉

AVG is free

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AVG 9.0 is free…we offer it on our website, and it works just fine, and becuase im lazy and don’t want to post to the other things, so is adaware and spybot, and the free versions work just fine

The point is [edited]

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If they are used in a non-commercial or non-educational setting, then yes it is free for use.

If you are putting the programs on commercial or educational systems, than you are in violation of the licensing agreement.

Edited to add; From the AVG site;

END USER SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT
1. Definitions.
a. Authorized Purposesmeans (i) personal, noncommercial purposes in the case of Software known as AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition and AVG LinkScanner, and (ii) your personal purposes or the internal business purposes of you and your Affiliates in the case of other Software.

More http://free.avg.com/ww-en/224963#ixzz0fM4m65qA

Yes, yes

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I agree with you. and we don’t put them on any company computers, but we do put them on home computers so technically it is for non commercial, and we don’t charge for the programs so 🙂 loopholes i guess, lol

Take a look at PortableApps for ideas….

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http://portableapps.com/apps

Free ISO burner

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IMGBurn is a free ISO burning program if you have a need for one.

http://www.imgburn.com/

Used it…

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I personally use it, but we offer cdburnerxp, which do you think is better?

Unfamiliar

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Unfortunately i haven’t used cdburnerxp so I can’t compare them directly.

In my experience, IMGBurner is a simple program, so if cdburnerxp has a lot of features, it might be a better option.

I don’t do media burning (such as making audio CDs or video DVDs) at work where we us it, I really only need to write files to CDs or burn ISO images to CDs so I can use them (usually when I’ve had to download install files from EOpen and they supply an ISO instead of an EXE).

Personally J&B on the Rocks

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but in a pinch, JW

Acromyns

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What are J&B and JW?

re acromyns

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J&B http://www.jbscotch.com/ JW http://www.johnniewalker.com/en-us/AgeGateway.aspx i’ve discovered a few of the folks around here have a liking for whisky and scotch, i personally prefer Glenfiddich http://www.glenfiddich.com/lda.html?redirect=/index.html straight up on ice

edit: links

JW is ok

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But I’m a Jameson man myself (especially the 12 year old).

cool

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will keep that in mind, i’ve not tried Jameson yet but i am being encouraged to “expand” my horizons 🙂

Wisky and Scotch

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Throw a little Gin in there during the fishing trips …usually come back with no bottle and no fish but have a hell of a great time…

Gin

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“shudder” vodka maybe…Australian Chardonnays 🙂

Gin is nice.

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Haven’t had any for awhile. Come spring, it might be time.

What are acromyns ??… Or do you mean –

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Acronyms? 😉

In any event you’re still wrong – an acronym is an abbreviation that forms into a word like:

[b]RAF[/b] ~ [b]R[/b]oyal [b]A[/b]ir [b]F[/b]orce (pronounced RAFF)

or

[b]LASER[/b] ~ [b]L[/b]ight [b]A[/b]mplification by [b]S[/b]timulated [b]E[/b]mission of [b]R[/b]adiation

or

[b]SCUBA[/b] ~ [b]S[/b]elf [b]C[/b]ontained [b]U[/b]nderwater [b]B[/b]reathing [b]A[/b]pparatus

Regrettably ‘J&B’ or ‘JW’ do not form [u]words[/u] so do not qualify as acronyms, or even acromyns (whatever they are).

[i]My favourite tipple, as most of the peers here are aware of is the gloriously peaty flavoured [b]LAPHROAIG[/b] with no ice, just a splash of water.[/i] 🙂

Scotch Wisky

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a blend of J&B [scotch] and JW [Wisky]

‘Justerini & Brooks’ and ‘Johnnie Walker’ … {Edited}

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Which are BOTH [i]blended[/i] scotch whisky.

Both brands are now owned by Diageo. 🙂

They are

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Inebriated initialisms.

Probably and …

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Indubitably too.

freeware

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a good site to keep an eye on to get decent software is http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ one can often get some pricey software for free…legally

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TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe
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