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mouser:
If you find you're "messing up" your computer with multiple installs/uninstalls,
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I still say the best way to handle this is by using a Virtual Machine for testing software until you are sure you want it.
I would avoid System Restore for anything but catastrophic crashes -- it's just too risky that you will roll back some user data you didn't want to.

criss:
Only three must have progs:

AM-Notebook http://www.aignes.com/notebook.htm
Taskmerlin http://www.taskmerlin.com/
and
Jescopy http://software.thomasjacob.de/software/en/details/jescopy.html

I use these for some time now: very reliable, not bloated, small progs.

steeladept:
If you find you're "messing up" your computer with multiple installs/uninstalls,
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I still say the best way to handle this is by using a Virtual Machine for testing software until you are sure you want it.
I would avoid System Restore for anything but catastrophic crashes -- it's just too risky that you will roll back some user data you didn't want to.
-mouser (February 13, 2010, 02:43 AM)
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Agreed.  In fact, I have taken to using Virtual Machines for everything that I can so that it is easy to restore/upgrade/migrate as needed.  Honestly, I haven't found anything I do that I can't do in a virtual machine.  I know there are games and such out there that need the native horsepower of the machine without the VM overhead, but I haven't run into any software I use now that has that.  Once the desktop hypervisors become more common/reasonable, I forsee even that will stop being a roadblock on "normal" machines.

unitg2:
NoScript for Firefox

miva2:
useful topic
i checked some of the programs, nice addition to my pc ;D
i didn't have FARR yet on this comp 0__o
screenshot captor looks nice :D
i should check out total commander and notepad++ website watcher looks interesting too hehe

my list:
firefox, with some nice add-ons for browsing
FARR, on laptop and pc now
Media Monkey, for playing audio, there's probably better but it's best i tried and i like it. it has a monkey!

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