Hiya!
A short note on software that should be on everybody’s PC (or Mac for that matter).
- Antivirus, if you are online ever you need to have antivirus protection. If you’re not online you need antivirus. Strongly recommend Bit-Defender
- Firewall, yes you gotta have that too. Somehow a virus will come in and then you need your firewall to stop all unwanted sending of your information online. Again strongly recommend Bit-Defender Plus
- Google Desktop Search, while trying to keep this general I have to pick this specific software out, because on my system it’s about 20 times faster than the included Microsoft search. Google DesktopSearch included in the Google pack.
- Excel, Word and Outlook. Couldn’t live without em, but hesitant to upgrade to 2007…
- Firefox! About a year since I threw explorer away. I have never looked back, it can’t get any better and wow how many great add-ons there are (will save those for another time)
- Cute-FTP, are you working with websites in any way, then you will if you haven’t already be using some kind of FTP software. My choice definitely falls on Cute-FTP ftp software and I have tried about 6-7 solutions.
Oh, I had a whole bunch more to tell you about. Second part of this post coming shortly.
Cheers, Peter 
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