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Nowadays most of the people on the internet often reinstall their windows and after you are done there remains some question about what software to install, well when you are done reading this post you don't have to worry anymore because I will explain most of the info you need for the software you need on a fresh copy of windows!

List of the sofware that i will talk about

If you don't want to read the whole post or want to take a quick look of all the programms that I will be talking about there is a list below which contains all the software that i am going to talk about.

                                           First pick     Alternative 1     Alternative 2
Anti-Virus                          AVG free     NOD32         Avast!
Anti-Malware                    Spybot         MB Anti-Malware    
Firewall                             Comodo        
Browser                             Firefox       Opera        Chomera
Email                                 Thunderbird   Outlook     Mulberry
IM                                      Pidgin         Trillian     Skype   
Media Playback                 VLC           iTunes         Winamp
Image Editing                    Photoshop    Paint.net     GIMP
Office Suite                       MS Office    OpenOffice    
Adv.Text Editor                 Notepad++  UltraEdit    
PDF                                   Foxit Reader  CutePDF Writer     Adobe Reader
Others                                7-Zip           WinRar
                                          Ccleaner

Anti-Virus

I already have a post containing a list of recommedend antivirus programms, so i won't go in detail about what a virusscanner is etc..
But there are 2 categorys virusscanners, the free one and the paid one. Personally i prefer the paid one above the free ones but they will cost you aroudn 50$ a year, however the free ones are good for free antivirus.
For your pc i would recommedend to get:

- Eset Nod32
- Avast! antivirus
- AVG Free

Where avg obviously the free one is.

Anti-Malware

Anti-Malware will protect you against spyware and malware and there are some great scanners out there which are (almost) free. The scanners that i recommend using are

- Spybot
- MB Anti-Malware

Firewall

The virusscanner from Eset also includes a firewal and windows also have their own firewall included, but if you want to have a extra safety 'wall' you could try comodo, which is a recommedended firewall and it will help you to secure your computer.

Browser

Nowadays there are loads of browsers on the market and when you install windows you get internet explorerin the packet, however most of the people on the internet wont recommend internet explorer because of the vulneribiltys and the lack of add ons.
For windows you should be fine with one of the following 3 browsers:

- Firefox
- Opera
- Google Chrome

And for mac you should use safari, which is specialy build for mac.