Windows reinstall
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johnridleyWindows 7 up on my machine. Doing a re-evaluation of installed software.
Changes so far:
FoxIt PDF reader is out. The latest version does not give you the choice to not install their browser toolbar. I'm trying Nitro reader instead. It looks interesting, it allows you do to tons of stuff with PDFs.
I'm going to try to live totally with 7Zip instead of WinRAR. The only disadvantage I can see is that it won't create RAR files, but 7z files are an acceptable alternative. I do own a copy of WinRAR but it's just one more thing I don't need.
Installed GIMP instead of a pirated copy of photoshop. I actually made this switch a month or so ago, uninstalling the pirated copy. I just feel like getting rid of the pirated stuff.
Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft Firewall instead of AVG and Comodo. The AVG->MSE change was a month or two ago now.
Not going to bother with World Community Grid on this machine. My favored app is ClimatePrediction.net, and since I've started putting my machine into standby mode whenever I'm away for more than a few minutes, the machine NORMALLY only runs maybe an hour or two a day, and Climate work units take hundreds of hours. I can't finish one before the due date, usually.
Changes so far:
FoxIt PDF reader is out. The latest version does not give you the choice to not install their browser toolbar. I'm trying Nitro reader instead. It looks interesting, it allows you do to tons of stuff with PDFs.
I'm going to try to live totally with 7Zip instead of WinRAR. The only disadvantage I can see is that it won't create RAR files, but 7z files are an acceptable alternative. I do own a copy of WinRAR but it's just one more thing I don't need.
Installed GIMP instead of a pirated copy of photoshop. I actually made this switch a month or so ago, uninstalling the pirated copy. I just feel like getting rid of the pirated stuff.
Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft Firewall instead of AVG and Comodo. The AVG->MSE change was a month or two ago now.
Not going to bother with World Community Grid on this machine. My favored app is ClimatePrediction.net, and since I've started putting my machine into standby mode whenever I'm away for more than a few minutes, the machine NORMALLY only runs maybe an hour or two a day, and Climate work units take hundreds of hours. I can't finish one before the due date, usually.
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Date: 2010-12-29 03:13 pm (UTC)PE probably bothered me more because it LOOKS like Photoshop but it has signficant keystroke difference. If a program looks the same but acts differently it causes a cognitive dissonance that really bothers me. GIMP is very different, but it looks very different too so I know where I stand.
Also, I need a graphics editor at work too, and it's easier to just install GIMP there and use it in both places.