important laptop softwares

[unholy]

any idea of what are the most important softwares for laptop? this is my first laptop and i would need a good app for fan/heat/voltage control. Any other suggestion are welcome.

[Kdawgca]

Take a look at this guide to monitor temps.

Monitoring Notebook Temps: nVidia & ATI, CPU, HDD - Do your temps worry you?

[unholy]

thanks a lot !
Oh and this is a little of topic but anyone who own a asus g1s know how to change the time on the asus direct messenger?

[ViciousXUSMC]

most computers come with software to do this dependant on your motherboard.

some 3rd party ones are speedfan, everest, sandra.

Also if you want important software:

antivirus: free and good id recomend AVAST
3rd party defragment program is good the windows one sucks, check out disk keeper pro.

Everything else is preference.

[taelrak]

most computers come with software to do this dependant on your motherboard.

some 3rd party ones are speedfan, everest, sandra.

Also if you want important software:

antivirus: free and good id recomend AVAST
3rd party defragment program is good the windows one sucks, check out disk keeper pro.

Everything else is preference.

One thing about diskeeper pro, especially for laptop users, who tend to have all sorts of storage peripherals, usb keys and other external HDDs - make sure you turn "automatic defragmentation of newly detect drives" off. Otherwise everytime you plug in your ipod or usb drive or whatever, it'll start scanning and defraging it, and then you'll have all sorts of problems when you try to remove them.

[ViciousXUSMC]

ahh good point never had that problem, I hardly ever have anything on auto im a power user :P

[E.B.E.]

Maybe also check this (XP) guide for the Essential Applications section. Although the exact applications will not be the same, the types of apps will usually be the same. Windows XP Installation Guide