User:Ke4roh/Basic computer setup

I often find myself setting up computers for others. Here's the quick sketch of software I set up:

Internet access
Zone Alarm http://www.zonealarm.com/ Download & Buy > Zone Alarm > Download
Windows Update http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/
Firefox http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
- about:config config.trim_on_minimize = true [1]
- Adblock Plus
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater
- Bugmenot
- FireFtp
- Forecastfox
- Google Browser Sync
- HTML Validator (web authors)
- Imagezoom
- LinkChecker (web authors)
- Linkification
- WebmailCompose (if user is on web mail)
Automatic defragmenting
- Start -> Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks
- Add a task to run "C:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe C: -f" periodically (weekly?) when the computer will be switched on but basically idle.
E-mail, IM, other things at user's request
- GIMP http://www.gimp.org
- GAIM http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
- PDF writer http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
- PDF free (noncommercial only) http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/PDFFree.shtml
- CD burner http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ http://www.deepburner.com/
DiskMon to add an on-screen drive activity light to a sequestered desktop machine

[edit] Admin tools

Startup Manager http://www.windowsstartup.com/download.php
Disk space management http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
Gamma calibration http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html
- Linux:
  - Run Monica http://www.pcbypaul.com/linux/monica.html
  - Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or similar) add "Monitor" line "Gamma 1.02 1.02 1.02" where numbers are RGB.