Your Favorite Utilities for Windows 7/8

[foxmobouser]

All my systems have these.
-Winrar
-YoutubeGrabber
-CPU-z
-GPU-z
-EVGA precision

[PP Mguire]

Sounds reasonable, so you don't get the boost at the beginning?

Yea my speeds are spot on and never low unless I'm on a loaded server. I never get boosted speeds and when I grabbed this net few months back the boost wasn't advertised. My best friend last year was paying for the 20 and always had 30 while still paying the 50 bucks. Wtf

[rrplay]

I always get
CPU-Z - GPU-Z HWMoitor WinRar EVGA Precision CCleaner OCCT Mini Tool Box Been finding TMonitor handy at times for checking multis and clocks. Some apps like ATTO and Crystal to test out drive speeds. always use VLC and bunch of apps that I need to get things done.Been having to monitor my ISP due to some problems last few weeks with UVRrealtime but seems that I got that sorted out.

[najiro]

CPU-Z
HW monitor
EVGA precision (since i use an EVGA card)
Core Temp
GPU observer by Orbmu2k
7-zip
3dmark 11 and 3dmark vantage
HD tune pro
Hard Disk Sentinel
Deep Freeze
TeraCopy
Malwarebytes
Acronis True Image
MagicDisc (for ISO images)

I currently use and have these installed in my PC.

[Joshua_Mahr]

CCleaner
Chrome
Defragler
Cpu-Z
Gpu-Z
Afterburner
RealTemp
PowerIso
Putty
WinRar

Some of my desktop fav's.

[ryandigweed]

Chrome - Fastest !
WinRAR - A must in this Era
Defraggler - I like to Keep a check on drives
System Ninja - Way better than CCleaner !
MVPS Hosts - Keeps Malware Sites away
Panda Security USB Vaccine - Keeps USB viruses away !
VLC - Plays all the videos
PuTTy - To access my Router, Phone, NAS through SSH
HDtune - To check my Hard drives
TeraCopy - Amazing File Copier
Windows Live Mail - Gotta Be updated with the forums

[Saryn]

Chrome - Fastest !
WinRAR - A must in this Era
Defraggler - I like to Keep a check on drives
System Ninja - Way better than CCleaner !
MVPS Hosts - Keeps Malware Sites away
Panda Security USB Vaccine - Keeps USB viruses away !
VLC - Plays all the videos
PuTTy - To access my Router, Phone, NAS through SSH
HDtune - To check my Hard drives
TeraCopy - Amazing File Copier
Windows Live Mail - Gotta Be updated with the forums

I've tried Chrome for a few months and decided to get rid of it. Alot of websites are not compatible with it and say out right that chrome is not supported. Weird things happen on some sites and programs/apps on sites. Decided to sotp with the hassle and go back to the newest Mozilla which is running great for me.

[PP Mguire]

I browse a ton of sites daily and have not come across this issue. Care to elaborate a site specifically that has this problem?

I used to be an avid FF user until their consistent releases caused the OS to be bloated, crash, and all around not be the superior go to browser anymore.

[ryandigweed]

I've tried Chrome for a few months and decided to get rid of it. Alot of websites are not compatible with it and say out right that chrome is not supported. Weird things happen on some sites and programs/apps on sites. Decided to sotp with the hassle and go back to the newest Mozilla which is running great for me.

Used to be a Mozilla User way before. It's secure and all, but the load up time was such a drag. :D

And I haven't come across any website being incompatible or something.

[keen]

Firefox with adblock plus
avast
defraggler
winrar
ccleaner
videolan

[PP Mguire]

I guess I can add:
FRAPS
MSI Afterburner
Coretemp
GPU-Z
CPU-Z
Photoshop CS5
Nexus Mod Manager
Xfire
Chrome.

[najiro]

I browse a ton of sites daily and have not come across this issue. Care to elaborate a site specifically that has this problem?

I used to be an avid FF user until their consistent releases caused the OS to be bloated, crash, and all around not be the superior go to browser anymore.

true... well I actually use both Firefox and google chrome. Sites have heavy graphics and flash stuff are best with firefox.. some sites just like google chrome and vice versa. I think it's best to have both..

[PP Mguire]

Here again, I have no such problems with flash based sites using Chrome. I don't have any other browser installed. Anybody who has a problem if you wish to elaborate what site it is I want to see it for myself. Like I said I used to be an avid FF user since around 2003 or so. With the way Chrome is made it is lighter on the system, faster to load, the ability to tie it to your Google account (cloud based bookmarks FTW), doesn't require Flash to be installed (I hate installing extra junk), has Adblock (which used to be FF user arguments including my own), and in my experience faster with web pages all around. With a machine like mine I can get major scroll lag using FF, I don't have said problem in Chrome.

To be perfectly frank, I used to be a Chrome basher like it was the new IE. Completely turned around where my opinion of the browser is concerned. If you're worried about Google spying on you then there are also other variants of the Chrome browser without the built in Google stuff.

[najiro]

Here again, I have no such problems with flash based sites using Chrome.

try this
https://www.tiberiumalliances.com

I used FF's greasemonkey stuff in some browser games I play. Can't play tiberium alliances well in chrome... the screen lags. FF runs the game better

[PP Mguire]

I just played for about 30 or so minutes in Chrome. I experienced slight lag but currently I am on a 5Mb connection. When I go home to my 20Mb connection I'll try again. I enabled WebGL too, so that might make a difference for you in Chrome and after this pretty much all lag that I did experience went away. Again I'll try when I go home and see if it was WebGL or connection speed.

All that aside, I meant actual sites, not games. I don't play flash games at all.