Essential Software That Must Be Installed After New Window

If you are facing deadly virus that cause your PC malfunction, there is one effective way to eliminate the virus that is formatting your PC. Format is a easy process if your desktop or laptop is coming along with operating system installation CD and driver CD. For those who does not possess your own OS installation CD, you are usually provided a recovery file in your desktop/laptop in case you need to format/recover your computer.

Reinstall software may sound troublesome to somebody as they forget what kind of software installed in their PC before format. Due to this reason, I have wrote down a list of essential software that must be installed after format PC. The list is build according to software’s function.

Antivirus

Antivirus is an essential software program that used to protect your computer from the attack of virus, malware, scams, and suspicious internet activities. Do remember to update your antivirus software to the latest version to gain maximum protection from it.
Here are some FREE Antivirus software program available in the market.
1. Avira Antivir Personal

2. Avast Free Edition

3. AVG Antivirus Free Edition 2011

PDF Reader

Besides of Microsoft Office, pdf reader is another essential document reader software that must be installed. Adobe reader is the most popular pdf reader and yet I want to introduce Foxit reader to you guy. Foxit reader have even more function than Adobe reader but it has smaller size and less memory consumption.
1. Adobe Reader (35.09 MB)

2. Foxit Reader

Extract Software

Zip file is common file format for large size document or software. Zip file consume less disk space compare to .exe format and due to the same reason, people tend to upload file in .zip format. Extracting software is an essential software that used to extract data from .zip file.
1. Winrar

2. Winzip

Burning Tools

Keep a copy of your favorite movie or video in a blank DVD before format computer, is that what you did? Then, burning tools is one of the important software that must be installed in your computer. Nero is one of the famous burning software program that I use since 3 year ago. A modern, user-friendly interface of Nero BurnLite 10 make burning process even easier to beginner.
1. Nero BurnLite 10

2. BurnAware Free 3.1.1 (High rating in CNET)

Video Player

How can I miss this thing out? Video player is the most important component in entertainment section. A good video player would give you better movie-watching experience. One of the criteria in video player selection is the video format compatibility of the video player. A better video player always provide wide range video format compatibility.
1. Windows Media Player (built-in video player)
2. Real Player

For those who understand Chinese, I highly recommend BaoFeng video player. It support a wide range of video format.

Flash Player

Are you a Facebook fans? If your answer is yes, then you really need to install Adobe Flash Player so that you are able to play your favorite Farmville or Cityville or other Facebook games.
1. Adobe Flash Player

Social Network Software

How could you forget to install the social network software program? Keep in touch with your family and friends is more important than everything. For business, social network is the fastest and profit-promising tools to increase company’s revenue and tighten relationship with customers.
1. Windows Live Messenger 2011

2. Skype – a free online call service

3. Yahoo Messenger

Last but not least,

Internet Browser

With internet browser, what can you do with your computer? Choose one or more internet browser in the list below and start surfing
1. Google Chrome

2. Mozilla Firefox

3. Internet Explorer (built-in) – optional – upgrade to IE 9

Make use of this list of software after format your computer. It does save your time of choosing best software to be installed. All software listed above are only applicable to Windows operating system.