Hi mates can anyone suggest me the most needed applications for windows 8.1 for its maintenance, looks etc.
foobar2000 or winamp to play music adwleaner and hitman pro just in case google chrome or waterfox/firefox depends on choice nero 2015 to burn dvds or blu rays and defraggler to defrag drives
The best tool for maintenance is your brain. Don't install stuff you aren't going to use. As far as looks, I don't know. I typically just black desktop and keep it organized.
command prompt,control panel,Local Security Policy,Services,Windows Firewall with Advanced Security and antivirus Windows defender
I have to go with Murphy's recommendations. I test the progs in VM and assess them first. I try to use portable apps where possible. Waterfox, Opera, Firefox come in portable versions. I have Waterfox on my data drive and can run it from any drive I boot into and have the same config. Every time you install prog. there are reg entries made. Even after uninstalls they remain in the registry, some were impossible to delete. Acronis comes to mind.
I don't know about 12 but. in order of appearance on my first install are 01) Firefox 02) 7Zip 03) CCLeaner 04) Win8 Manager 05) Paragon HDM 06) Office 07) uTorrent 08) IDM 09) HexEdit 10) WinSCP 11) The latest Full ADK 12) a Wallpaper lol ok almost 12, I tried.
I've found that WinSCP, CCLeaner, uTorrent, Firefox, HexEdit, Paragon HDM, IDM, 7Zip are all available in the form of standalone Portable executables. Some may write temp files, but easy to clean out, just delete the folder. Helps to keep it clean. Not a suggestion just my preference. To each his own.
yep all are portable, and are part of a toolkit I put together to build/work on systems for other people. My personal stuff I just install them full since space isnt an issue and the majority are used almost daily.
1. 7zip 2. CCleaner 3. Skype 4. VLC media Player 5. AIMP 6. Comodo Internet Security 7. Total Commander 8. ImgBurn 9. OSFMount 10. Google Chrome "Canary" 11. Autoruns 12. Photofiltre 13. XnView 14. Hexelon Max 6 15. Revo Uninstaller and... 16. Notepad 2 17. utorrent 18. PDF-XChange Viewer
Exactly what I have. I use the WinPen Pack and added some stuff I like to use. Another one that I really like is Hiren's Boot DVD 15.2 Restored Edition, which you most likely have as well.
I prefer winrar to 7zip (just a preference). And K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, which includes Media Player Classic for playing movies and music. Gvim is my editor of choice. CCleaner of course. Imgburn. TCC LE (command shell).