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Microsoft® Windows Update
(HIGH PRIORITY: For updating vital components of most Window’s Operating Systems such as: 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP.)
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Microsoft® Office Update
(HIGH PRIORITY: For updating vital components to Microsoft’s Office Products such as: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access.)
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Microsoft® Internet Explorer
(Microsoft’s latest Internet browser)
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Mozilla® Firefox Web Browser
(A very intelligent, fast, and new Internet browser with support for tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, integrated search, and more. If you’re ready for an awesome change from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, give this a try. You won’t be disappointed.)
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Macromedia® Flash Player
(Browser plug-in to play all “Flash” content on the web.)
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Macromedia® Shockwave Player
(Browser plug-in to play all “Shockwave” content on the web.)
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Java® Runtime Environment
(Browser plug-in to play all “Java” content on the web.)
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Adobe® Acrobat Reader
(For opening and printing all .PDF files.)
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McAfee® Online Virus Protection
(This is one of the best online virus scanning software packages around. You can simply download the software and it keeps itself up-to-date continuously when you’re connected to the Internet. It also uses less resources than some of it’s biggest competitors, thereby not restraining your system when it’s protecting your computer and it’s files from a potential virus attack. We personally use and recommend this product.)
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Nero® 6 Ultra Edition
(This is the newest version of Nero’s popular Burning Rom CD-RW & DVD-RW burning software. The new Nero 6 Ultra Edition contains everything you need for novices and experts to create/copy/backup audio, video, and data CD’s and DVD’s. Very powerful functionality, yet very easy to use.)
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Panicware® Pop-Up Stopper
(Block unwanted pop-up banners while surfing the web)
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Microsoft® Windows Media Player
(For playing most movie related content)
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MusicMatch®
(Great for listening, organizing, or burning music to CD’s. Additionally, it has the ability to play streaming CD quality music based on artists, genres, year, and more. You can simply choose an artist and play their songs immediately. No more trying to figure out who sang what song. Also, download your favorite tunes and burn them directly to a CD or copy them to your IPod or other MP3 player.)
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Microsoft® .NET Passport
(Private and anonymous, this is a great starting point for registering your “NON” MSN or Hotmail e-mail account to be used on the MSN Messenger service below. Great for you AOL users to see, chat, and hear other non-AOL users.)
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MSN® 9
(In my opinion, a much more stable and reliable ISP-Internet Service Provider than AOL. Also incorporates some very easy and robust digital photo, virus scanning, and firewall software FREE with your subscription.)
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MSN® Messenger
(An awesome FREE buddy-chat software that allows you to chat, hear, and view other users online. ANYONE can sign on to this service as well, they just need to register their e-mail address using the “.Net Passport” service above - even AOL users with AOL email addresses can use this service. Best of all, it’s FREE for AOL users too. NOTE: MSN or Hotmail users can just use their existing e-mail address.)
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IomegaWare® Software
(Anyone who uses a ZIP drive should download and install the latest Iomega drivers here. This will help Windows properly identify and configure your ZIP device to work flawlessly.)
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Lavasoft® Ad-Aware
(This program will clean out all sorts of marketing information that got maliciously installed on your computer (even in it’s registry) while you were surfing the Internet totally unaware. There are some major “Direct” marketing firms out on the web that push small programs to your computer so that they can monitor your Internet surfing (where you go and what you buy) and spam you with e-mail advertisements. These little programs are called “Spyware” programs. They are designed to send marketing data from your computer on an ongoing basis such as: e-mail addresses, what type of Windows you’re using, connection speed, ISP you use, buying habits, how you surf the web, where you go on the web, etc. If enough of them get on your computer, it can slow down your computer and Internet connection quite a bit.)
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Apple® QuickTime
(For playing QuickTime movies.)
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WinRAR®
(Powerful compression program, archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress mulitple files (content) 8 to 30% better than ZIP files. Main features are strong compression, processing of non-RAR archives (e.g. ZIP files), long filename support, embedded functionality in right-click context menus, self-extracting archives and more.)
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Palm® Desktop Software
(This is the Windows version of the Palm Desktop Software program. Users of most Palm Pilot PDA devices can install or upgrade to this latest version.)
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WinZip®
(For unzipping compressed zip files.)
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