September 15, 2009
Installing Window 7 (From Scratch)
After too many tentative upgrades, I finally decided to install Windows 7 from scratch... along with all of the software I use!
Over the last 3 weeks I made too many tentative to upgrade my Windows Vista installation to Windows 7. I reported some of the issues in an older post. On Sunday, I backed up my entire laptop over an external USB driver, and went for another round of installation. This time there wa no boot problem, but after the installation was done Windows 7 couldn't boot because of issue with the registry files.
Having a backup, I went bold and tried a brand new install, which worked smoothlessly, recognizing all of my hardware after the first basic installation. It went to grab some drivers from the HP site, as well. I have to say the process was very smooth and much faster. But now (over one day after my Monday morning installation) I'm still struggling finishing reinstalling all of my software. Good luck some of my key properties (including email) are online and kept working.
So, what did I install over Windows? Here is a complete list of what I put on my computer, in the oder I installed it:
- 7zip
- Vmware Player
- Google Chrome
- KeePass (version 1.16, not the .Net one)
- Delphi 7, along with its updates
- Skype
- OpenOffice
- IrfanView
- WinSCP
- PuTTY
- TortoiseSVN
- Delphi 2007 (the December 2007 edition)
- ClamWin Antivirus
- Firebird 2
- Context
- Delphi 2009 plus its automatic updates (nice to have them)
- FileZilla
- Apache 2.2
- Flash
- Flame Robin
- GOM Media Player
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- MS Build Community Tasks
- XanaNews
- RAD Studio 2010 (Delphi, C++Builder, and Delphi Prism)
- Mozy Backup
- ER/Studio Developer Edition
- Interbase 2009
- InstallAware Express
- Adobe Acrobat 8
- Acrobat Reader 9
- Beyond Compare
- XmlTypist
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Ashampoo Burning Studio
I still have a few in the pipeline, including Windows 7 Sdk, Silverlight, the free versions of Visual C#, the SysInternals Suite, a number of Delphi components (already on my disk, but not installed), Paragon Hard Disk Manager, Picasa, and possibly TopStyle (of which I plan buying a license).
What did I forget? What else would I need? Suggestions are always welcome.
19 Comments
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
Well Some other goodies I Use: * Notepad++ * VirtualBox * Magic Disk (Mounting CD/DVD images) * TrueCrypt (Virtual Crypted Volumes to protect my sources) * VLC Media Player * Winamp * Fences (Desktop management) * CD Burner XP * AVIRA Antivirus Personal * InnoSetup and it's goodies All are free, some are open sourceComment by K. A. [] on September 15, 17:18
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
+ Finalbuilder (great tool) + Total Commander (I still like and use it since 2001)Comment by Martin on September 15, 19:25
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
Additionally to what was already mentioned: - VisualSVN Server - SVNMonitor - HashTab - Paint.NETComment by jochannes on September 15, 20:12
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
- Dependency Walker (http://www.dependencywalker.com/) - Gexperts (http://www.gexperts.org/) - DDevExtensions (http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/?p=689) - Paint (http://www.getpaint.net/) and you can have a look at this list: (http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2009Ultima teDeveloperAndPowerUsersToolListForWindows.aspx)Comment by François on September 15, 20:48
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
I miss from your list Notepad++ (I am ex-Context, ex-Ultra Edit user). Give it a try - it rocks ResHack Reflector Unlocker WinMergeComment by Gad D Lord [http://www.mtgstudio.com] on September 15, 21:24
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
I also use about 2/3 of those on your list. KeePass, IrfanView, SysInternals are indespensible! Also recommend: PSPad (written in Delphi) pspad.com PureText Plain-text Paste utility Winmerge (unless you paid for BeyondCompare) I'm trying out VirtualBox to see if there are advantages over VMWare... OK, now I may have to give TopStyle a second look.Comment by Jamie on September 15, 22:09
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
Use Kaspersky internet securityComment by Edmar Frazão [http://www.sesistemas.com.br] on September 15, 23:55
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
Some downloader for IE strongly suggested :) Haven't managed to download 1,7Gb RAD Studio 2010 iso using IE8 :( Visual Wget integrated to IE could be usefull for that. Camtasia to make wonderful presentations! Live Meeting 2007 SourceGear DiffMerge Microsoft debugging tools for Windows to find driver which BSODs brand new Windows 7Comment by IL [] on September 16, 00:22
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
> Camtasia to make wonderful presentations! Better yet... use Jing! (http://www.jingproject.com/) also from TechSmith that allows you to do screen grabs as well as video.Comment by Donovan on September 16, 07:19
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
My favorites missing from previous lists: "media player classic" (http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/) - i think name says it all. "clipx" (http://www.bluemars.org/clipx/) - let's you keep more than 1 item on clipboard, it has saved me from a lot of trouble several times! Also some firefox extensions (like flashblock, colorzilla etc) are essentialComment by mart on September 16, 10:56
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
Far manager 2 (user menus, file associations, unicode support, plugins, ...) Akelpad (less functionlality than Notepad++, but faster for big text files) KMPlayer (cool media player built with delphi)Comment by Samir on September 16, 11:28
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
Further suggestions (not mentioned in other comments):
1) security:
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- Autoruns, Process Explorer, Process Monitor...
(SysInternal tools, now by Microsoft)
- Personal Software Inspector (secunia PSI)
- GnuPG
- Acronis True Image
2) dev tools (all "free"):
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- FastMM4 + FastCode
- DelphiCodetODoc
- Sampling Profiler
- Icarus ("uses" analysis)
- SourceMonitor
- XN Resource Editor
- Open XML Editor
- RemoteDebugger
3) divers (almost all free):
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- PDF Creator
- Deskzilla / Bugzilla
- Feedreader
- XMPlay
- CDex
- ImgBurn
- DeepBurner
- Gimp, XnView
...
- @icon sushi
Comment by Loïs Bégué
[http://www.arpoon.de]
on September 16, 11:29
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
- Ruby (and definitely get the installer that includes the SciTE text editor) - Git (the mSysGit install) - IcoFXComment by Joe White [http://blog.excastle.com/] on September 17, 16:48
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
I'd add to those already recommended: - Total Commander - excellent file manager (http://www.ghisler.com/) - ActionOutline - great outlined information organizer (http://www.actionoutline.com/) - FastStone Image Viewer - excellent image viewer, replacement for ACDSee and better then IrfanView (http://www.faststone.org/) - 1st Clock - customized date/time on your taskbar clock + alarms + atom time etc. (http://www.1stclock.com/) - IconLover/IconUtils - great icon creation toolbox (http://www.aha-soft.com/) - The Bat! - if you have multiple email accounts! (http://www.ritlabs.com/) - InnoSetup/DeepBurner - already mentioned...Comment by DelphiLover on September 17, 21:08
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
-XMLPad -Sumatra PDF reader -Servant Salamander -XnViewComment by Leffy on September 18, 18:34
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
* BulletProof FTP Server: Awesome personal FTP server http://www.bpftpserver.com * BulletProof FTP Client: You always need gui FTP client http://www.bpftp.com * NCFTP Client: Super command-line ftp-client for all OSes http://ncftp.com/ncftp/ * 4NT, now called TCC Command Console LE http://jpsoft.com/tccledes.htmComment by Matt C [] on September 20, 04:45
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
You can remove WinSCP as Filezilla is already a SFTP client.Comment by Yann Papouin on September 24, 12:59
Installing Window 7 From Scratch
You could also remove WinSCP AND AShampoo Burning Studio from the list after installing Total Commander with the SFTP and burner plugins. You can simply take the TCUP edition (http://tcup.pl) and only install the plugins you need. There are lots of other great plugins, of course, e.g. NTFS link creation etc. Everything can be controlled through the keyboard, and totalcmd was written in Delphi, so it must be good stuff ;).Comment by nevel on October 19, 17:04
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Installing Window 7 From Scratch
Comment by Joe on September 15, 16:37