Home PC Setup

[PanFisher]

After Dshocks thread concerning SpyWare I thought it would be interesting to see how others setup their home computers. For Me:

Browser - Mozilla FireFox with the FireFTP and Foxytunes extension
E-mail - Mozilla Thunderbird with Sunbird/Lightening extension for my calendar.
Business - OpenOffice for Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentations, Database,etc.
Accounting - Quicken
Music - iTunes
Firewall - SpySweeper
Anti-Virus - SpySweeper
Anti-Spyware - SpySweeper

I find these to be the essentials for Home needs. Most are "open source" and free downloads keeps the expenses down (More for FF toys ). I have heard good things about other products as well like: AVG Anti-Virus, Safari, etc. What do you use and why do you find it better? I tried Safari and did find it superior to FireFox except the beta version was quite buggy and blew me out of the browser on several sites.

[Flyandtie1]

Browser- Apple Safari, I dont even like Mozilla anymore. The beta version is nice!

E-mail- Gmail, Much faster than yahoo or others I have tried and a cleaner user interface.

Photography program- Picasa ( awesome program)

Music- Itunes

Videos- Apple Quicktime

All the virus stuff is covered with Norton and spybot search and destroy.

I like Apples programs a LOT better than what Microsoft has, so I have a Dell PC, But I run all the Apple programs that are downloadable for Microsoft. Kinda the Best of both worlds I think..

[ausable_ny]

I can't even get Safari to run on my machine. I've downloaded it on two separate occasions and when I click the desktop icon, I get an error message stating there was a problem encountered and the program has to shut down. I'm running XP Sp2.

[DShock]

I can't even get Safari to run on my machine. I've downloaded it on two separate occasions and when I click the desktop icon, I get an error message stating there was a problem encountered and the program has to shut down. I'm running XP Sp2.

ausable_ny,
I went to the Safari Support Forum and found this possible answer; Re: Unable to make 3.0.4 the default browser on XP
Posted: Jan 10, 2008 12:28 PM in response to: xplocvo
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I fixed this by going to: Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Set Program Access and Defaults > click Custom > under Choose a Default Web Browser, click Safari > click OK

Hope that'll help you.

Windows XP Pro Safari 3.0.5
Let me know if this helps and I'll look further!
Doug

[Ray]

Browser - Mozilla FireFox
E-mail - incredimail
Business - MS Office for Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Presentations etc.
Accounting -MS Money for home & Quickbooks for business
Music - iTunes
Firewall - McAfee
Anti-Virus - McAfee
Anti-Spyware - Spybot. Ad-Aware & Registry Smart
Photography - Photoshop 7.0
AD-ware - Ad-Aware
Registry Cleaner - Registry Smart
Videos -Quicktime

[DShock]

Browser- Safari
E-Mail- Hotmail (Firefox Access) & Yahoo
Anti-Virus- McAfee
Music- ITunes
Spyware- Windows Defender
Video- Media Player 11
Cookie & File Removal- CCleaner
Computer- AMD Athlon (tm) XP 2500+ 1.83 GHz 736 MB of RAM Operating System Win XP Home Edition, Version 2002, Service Pack 2
Printer- HP Laser Jet 1022 (perfect!)

[Backcastwards]

Home built Intel P4 3gig. XP pro sp2 Mozilla Outlook Express, Hardware (router} firewall. Spybot.
Never had a virus, don't open attachments. Disable html in email.