6 essential software for your windows machine

Here is a list of 6 essential software that are required on your windows PC or laptop.

1. Adobe Reader – Most of the documents related to travel, banking or professional are published and shared in the adobe pdf format, hence it is necessary to have this installed on your new PC.
2. 7-zip – This is an open source unzip and archive utility that supports  multitude of formats including XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, Z . This is a must have software on your new PC. This software is a good open source replacement to WinZip.
3. Firefox - Yes! there are websites that appear different and better on firefox and it is better to have an option of a browser other than IE on your PC just in case.
4. Adobe Flash plugin for your browser – This is required to watch flash video’s on the internet including websites like youtube.
5. ZapGrab - This is a free utility to grab screen shots of  portions of your screen, although one could choose to use printscreen and MS paint to achieve the same result, this utility makes the task easier.
6. Freecorder browser plugin – This is a must have tool for recording streaming audio and video played on your computer from external websites like youtube etc. The audio can be recorded as you listen from the website, any youtube video’s that you watch can be automatically stored in the cache and saved for later viewing.

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