Windows BSOD = reinstall
27 05 2009
After a few too many BSOD’s (even Heidi is aware of this term now), I was unable to get my computer to work anymore – I tried a bunch of things (including but not limited to a fresh install, Ubuntu, Puppy Linux, a new hard drive and new DDR2 RAM stick) to no avail.
I then decided to revive my old broken computer instead of trying to fix my newer one in futility. I reluctantly ended up putting Windows back on even though I was really tempted to use Ubuntu. My main holdback to keeping Windows is MSMoney which has a ton of my old financial information in and in a much smaller way, iTunes (though Songbird is going to rid me of that hold).
For my own fun (read: for next time), here’s a list of the programs that I’ve put onto my fresh Windows install already.
- Firefox (and how to bring the profile back)
- NoScript
- Adblock Plus
- Lastpass
- Better Gmail 2
- Delicious Bookmarks
- Gmail Manager
- Uppity
- PDF Downloader
- Google Gears
- Better GReader
- AutoCopy
- Weave or Xmarks
- Copy Plain Text
- Thunderbird
- Lightning (and calendar sync with google calendar)
- Provider (read)
- Zindus
- Songbird (in favor of iTunes previously)
- Security Essentials or ClamWin (in favor of Avast previously)
- Pidgin
- 7-Zip
- uTorrent
- FileZilla
- VLC
- SyncToy
- Picasa
- Google Desktop
- MS Money
- Notepad++
- PDF XViewer or Adobe Reader
- CutePDF
- FastStone Capture V5.3
- EaseUS Partition Manager
- Infra Recorder
- TweakUI
- Adobe Flash
- Java
- Latest NVidia Video Driver
- .NET Framework
Whew! I’ll probably bump into a bunch more software that I ‘need’ but for now, I’m trying to keep my software bloat to a minimum (if I haven’t blown it already).
