Help me please!?

Question

What sort of stuff should I have on a laptop that I will use for pretty much everything?

Answer 1

A decent CD/DVD drive that's compatible with your home DVD player. for example your home player may play DVD-r so make sure your laptop DVD is compatible with that.



Microsoft Office for all your word processing stuff.



Windows Media Player, and Real music Player. both free to



http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?pocId=&freetext=windows%20media%20player&DisplayLang=en



http://www.real.com/realplayer.html?pageid=broadBandChoicePage_Test&pageregion=player_button&src=realplayer%2Crpchoice_2_3_1_0_0_1_0&pcode=rn&opage=rpchoice





Internet Explorer for web browsing but try to get version 6, as people are having lots of problems with 7





Mozilla Firefox web browser great alternative to Internet Explorer. use as well as IE



http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/



and Faster fox addd- on for making browsing quicker



https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269



and Firefox Themes to personalise your fox



https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:2/cat:all



If you can a good Brought Security Program like Kaspersky 6 if not



Some good free Security Programs, anti-virus. firewall etc look here . www.download.com





http://www.download.com/?tag=hd_ts



they have a comprehensive list of all the programs you will ever need, with customer reviews and ratings



Top Ten Best Free Security Downloads

http://www.download.com/Best-free-security-and-spyware-software/1200-2023_4-5163183.html?tag=dir



and how to use these programs



http://www.download.com/How-tos/1200-2023_4-5157516.html?tag=dir



plus Microsoft Windows Defender and Malicious Software Removal Tool. both free to download.



http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=435bfce7-da2b-4a6a-afa4-f7f14e605a0d&DisplayLang=en



http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ad724ae0-e72d-4f54-9ab3-75b8eb148356&DisplayLang=en







An Adobe Programs, like Acrobat reader for reading certain web pages.



http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=adobe%20reader&tag=srch



and depending on your likes or dis-likes of chatting on the web, an Instant Messaging Program. either or



Yahoo

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ytff1-&p=yahoo%20instant%20messaging&ei=UTF-8



MSN



http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch/en-GB/



ICQ



http://www.icq.com/

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=ICQ+instant+messenger&y=Search&ei=UTF-8&fr=ytff1-&x=wrt&meta=vc%3D



DVD Software

http://www.download.com/DVD-Software/3150-7970_4-0.html



theres a few more but brain has gone blank

Answer 2

"Stuff" means two things - hardware and software. I see most of the people are answering soft, but I'll give you my 2 cents...



For Hardware, there are four things that make up the speed and response of the computer. They are (in this order)

- RAM

- Processor

- Hard Drive - particularly the free space

- Network connection



So, you want to max out your ram, all 2006-2007 processors are going to be fine but the duo core ones are really fast, and get a big hard drive. You'll need it.



Also - get a hardware warranty. Laptops die in three years and it will be good to be able to fix it for free.



Software - most come w/ XP or Vista. Vista is pretty sweet. You'll need the MS Office suite, but figure out what you want from there before you invest. Word, Excel, Powerpoint for sure - but do you make signs, web pages, databases, or things like that? You might need more apps then. See link 1.



Then, it depends on the other things you want to do. research the software before you put it on. Get a virus scanner (McAfee or Symantec) and a firewall - at least a software one. McAfee has a nice package of these things.



Lastly, you might want to consider a tablet PC if you do a lot of writing and drawing. Check the third link for more on that.

Answer 3

well what is its main purpose. yeah you say that you are going to use it for everything but like what? if you are talking programs wise, then i would suggest on having microsoft office, internet explorer or firefox (which you can download), some type of picture editing software, and of course your anti-virus software and if you are a music lover than a software that you use the most. also a lot of systems are coming with VISTA now so make sure you get that on it as well. VISTA has some pretty cool features to it.

Answer 4

Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office or Open Office.

Answer 5

Mine has



ubuntu

firefox 2,

thunderbird 2

automatix

openoffice

gimp

Answer 6

of course!! you may come to my secret underground laboratory, the place something and each thing happens- yet first you will desire to take off your footwear. only had the carpets wiped sparkling :0)

Answer 7

well thats stupid