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Email

An email programma will make it easier for you to chekc your emails, and you dont have to startup your webbrowser and login to your email account, this will check for your email with 1 simpel press of the button.
Here is a list of the email programma's that you might like:

- Thunderbird
- Outlook
- Mulberry

IM

IM stands for instant messaging and this will allow you to chat with your friends, the first to programmas in the following list combine alot of IM possibilites out there together, and the last one is really usefull for business chat but this is only for 1 IM chat only.

- Pidgin
- Trillian
- Skype

Media playback

This is software to play movies or music on your pc. If you don't like the windows media player you should try one of the following options:

- VLC
- Itunes
- Winamp

Image editing

If you would like edit images or create your own images on your pc you should definitly get a decent program to edit the images, since the default paint is not really big neither does it contain alot of functions for editing, youre better of trying one of the following programms:

- Photoshop
- Paint.net
- Gimp

Office suite

There are 2 options to choose as office suite, there is a paid version (Microsoft office) and there is a free version (Openoffice) however microsoft office contains more possibilities it also cost alot more then openoffice, and openoffice is still decent enough to write essays or anything else you want, you just have to spend more time on getting a good lay-out.

Advanced text editor

Many people aren't a fan of notepad and its a nice thing that there are more then just one notepad program out there, if you like to program you could use notepad++ which contains most of hte program languages, and is really easy to use. Also you could try ultraedit, both are prefered above the normal notepad since they work faster and are able to do alot more things than notepad.

PDF

A pdf-reader is required to read/create/open pdf's and there are different pdf readers out there, the first 2 in the list contain more security options then the last one in the list and thus they are higher ranked. Anyway here is the list:

- Foxit reader
- CutePDF Writer
- Adobe reader

Other useful software

If you wanna open .rar or .zip files you need a zip or rar opener and the most used openers are 7zip and winRar, however winrar will annoy you with that you are using the free version after 40 days.

And if you wanna keep your pc fast / clean you should get ccleaner and run it once in a while to check if there is space available to create or if you have useless software flying around.