List of software to install on Clean OS

List of default items to Install:

• Notepad++
• Silverlight 2 RTW (2.0.31005.0)
• ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
• Flash player
• Dot Net framework (comes with Microsoft update 2)
  • Version 1.0 (SP3)
  • Version 1.1 (SP1)
  • Version 2.0 x86 (SP1 x86)
  • Version 3.0 (SP1)
  • Version 3.5
• Firefox Browser
  Addons for Firefox:
  • IE Tab
  • Customize google (Enhance Google search results, Remove advertizing, ...)
  • Del.ico.us bookmarks (Access and manage your bookmarks wherever you are)
  • Download Statusbar (View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar - without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.)
  • Email This! (Send URL in 1 click)
  • Greasemonkey (Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.)
    Userscripts for Greasmonkey
    
  1. GoogleMonkeyR
     
  2. Live Hotmail Companion (remove advertise on top)
     
  • GreaseFire Automatically find Greasemonkey scripts on Userscripts.org (requires Greasemonkey)
  • Google Kladblok
  • Access Me (Access vulnerabilities in an application can allow an attacker to access resources without being authenticated.)
  • SQL Inject Me (SQL Injection vulnerabilites can cause a lot of damage to a web application.)
    
• Unlocker (Unlock locked files) very handy !
• Winsnap (Utility for taking and editing screenshots NOT Free anymore)
• Google Talk (Chat tool)
• MSN Messenger (Chat tool) + Mess Messenger (Remove advertising, ... Tweak tool)
• Winrar (Compress and decompress tool)
• Paint.net
• Adobe Pdf reader
• Copy path to clipboard
  
• Deamon Tools (DAEMON Tools enabling you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD.)

List of Software you need as .NET developer:

• SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP2 (Database)
• Subversion (Version control system)
• TortoiseSVN (easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. It is based on.)
• Reflector (Reflector is the class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation viewer for .NET)
• Cool Commands for Visual Studio 2008 plugin or Coolcommands for Visual studio 2005
• Resharper (Visual Studio Add-In NOT Free)
• Winmerge (Comparer for directorys or files)
• Process Explorer (More advanced process explorer)
• LLBLGen Pro (ORM mapper)
  


• RightHand.DataSet.Visualizer
  Advanced quickwatch dataset vizualizer

List of software you need as web developer:

• Colorpic (grab the color from 1 pixel)
• Fiddler (Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet)
• Addons for Firefox:
  • Web Developer (Adds a menu and a toolbar in Firefox with various web developer tools.)
  • Internet Explorer Developer tool bar
  • Window Resizer
  • Firebug
    
  • DOM Inspector
  • MeasureIt (Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.)

List of software that is handy:

• Virtual PC (Run other OS in Virtual mode)
• Windows Live Writer (Tool for writing blogposts)
• MP3TAG Edit your Metadata of common audio formats. Add Pciture, full song info, ...

List working with Silverlight:

• Silverlight SDK 1.0
• Silverlight SDK 1.1
• Silverlight SDK 2.0
• Microsoft Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 (for Silverlight 2)
• Microsoft Expression Blend™ 2 Service Pack 1

Handy Stuff you would like:

• XP Royal Theme (nice theme for XP)
• Bulk rename tool (fast and very nice rename tool)
• Auto Shut down
• Zoomit (nice zoom tool for presentations)
• Powertoys for Windows XP
• Visual Task Tips (Show tiny screenshot)
• Windows Live Writer (Blog tool)
  • Syntax Highlighting plugin
• Filezilla (FTP tool)
• Terracopy (copy past tool where you can change the buffersize)
• DScaler Deinterlacer/Scaler (Play DVD's with Windows Real player)
• Media player plugins

If you have a handy ore better tool please let me now. :-)

Kris Nobels

-- = Last updated 19-03-2009 = --