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Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Stunaep on May 01, 2003, 10:31:49 am
Seeing how popular the 'What is your fetish' threads are among here, here is another one.

Windows XP users only this time, I'm afraid. The WinXP start menu displays 5 frequently used programs on the first tab. Name these.

Mine:

Notepad
Irfanview
ICQ Lite
Paint Shop Pro 7
3d Studio Max 5
WS_FTP Pro
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Knight Templar on May 01, 2003, 10:34:03 am
Not on my computer, but I'll go by memory

Winamp
ICQ Lite/AIM
Freespace 2
Notepad
Photoshop 7


in that order...
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Tiara on May 01, 2003, 10:40:14 am
SmartFTP
RPG Maker 2003
MOO II
PSP 7
Anti Pop-up for IE
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Ashrak on May 01, 2003, 10:46:15 am
Freespace 2 ;D
LightWave 7.5
Winamp
Paint shop pro 7
DC++
Trillian




SERIOUSLY!!!!:nod: :nod: :thepimp: :rolleyes:
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Fineus on May 01, 2003, 10:53:54 am
Notepad
MSN Messanger 5.0
Windows Messanger (for my "watchdog" account)
Winamp
Microsoft Word
Media Player 9

Edit, should probably mention that lately all I've been doing is coursework which means typnig stuff and listening to music - hence the Notepad and MS Word. I'm not a writing freak :)
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Stunaep on May 01, 2003, 10:56:13 am
Egad! I'd beat out the balls of Windows Messenger, if it weren't for the fact that 90% of the girls I know use it.

Hail ICQ.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Fineus on May 01, 2003, 10:57:36 am
Amen, but likewise only 3 people on MSN Messanger are also on my ICQ list - everyone else hasn't even heard of it. Go figure when it comes to contacting college mates and not phoning them!
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Galemp on May 01, 2003, 11:03:52 am
Hmmm.

Trillian
Windows Media Player
IrFanView
FRED2
Freespace 2
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Razor on May 01, 2003, 11:18:29 am
Battlefield 1942 (Just got it! awesome game! :yes: ;7)
Splinter Cell
C&C Renegade
Sonique
Lightwave

Hm..guess nobody around here uses Internet Explorer very often. Eh? ;)
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Ashrak on May 01, 2003, 11:42:26 am
alll the time but its encarved in start menu by default ;) my qestion is what the heck do you do with notepad? play freespace 2? :p
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: 01010 on May 01, 2003, 11:52:03 am
Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
Egad! I'd beat out the balls of Windows Messenger, if it weren't for the fact that 90% of the girls I know use it.

Hail ICQ.


Did someone say Trillian?
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Razor on May 01, 2003, 12:22:39 pm
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if it weren't for the fact that 90% of the girls I know use it.

;7 ;7 ;7

At least 30 of my contacts are girls. Rest (about 3 or 4) are boys. I can't help it. Everytime I chat with a girl somewhere, they ask for my MSN adress. As I said, I just can't help it. ;7 :drevil:
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Razor on May 01, 2003, 12:26:37 pm
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alll the time but its encarved in start menu by default  


Yeah so, whats your point? :wtf: :wtf:


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my qestion is what the heck do you do with notepad? play freespace 2?

:doubt: :wtf: Oh wait. Was that a joke?
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: kode on May 01, 2003, 02:27:50 pm
windows commander
IE
winamp
icq
word, or some game.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Fineus on May 01, 2003, 02:53:41 pm
Well I use it to build HTML, dunno about the others :)
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Liberator on May 01, 2003, 02:58:06 pm
Kalifreth/Thunder, sir, you are a sadist.  

The guy that came up with HTML has said on camera that HTML is not supposed to be written by hand.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Fineus on May 01, 2003, 03:02:12 pm
He can't have been very good at it then ;)
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Martinus on May 01, 2003, 04:17:43 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
Kalifreth/Thunder, sir, you are a sadist.  

The guy that came up with HTML has said on camera that HTML is not supposed to be written by hand.

[color=66ff00]Course not! What the hell are you going to do with pages of hand written HTML? It's far better to type it into notepad. :nod:

What? :nervous:
[/color]
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: phreak on May 01, 2003, 04:19:42 pm
notepad
freelancer
visual c++
freespace 2
winamp
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: pyro-manic on May 01, 2003, 04:29:06 pm
:ick :lol:

*cringe*

That was truly dreadful, Maeglamor. Dreadful....:lol: :lol: :rolleyes:

On topic, I'm not on my comp at the moment, but I'm guessing:

(in no particular order)

Operation Flashpoint
FS2/FRED_OPEN
Splinter Cell
Half Life
Notepad ( much table moddage going on)
PowerDVD
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Ryx on May 01, 2003, 04:58:36 pm
Winamp
Zoom Player
3ds max
blackdiamond
emule
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: elorran on May 01, 2003, 05:19:08 pm
The point of manually writing HMTL is that it gives you far greater control over how to form and lay out a web page.  Asuming you know what you are doing, you can greatly exceed any capabilities of any standard web creation package.  This is of course dependant upon ones skills and knowledge of HTML though.

Thus far I have seen no one actually ask how skilled thunder is at html ;)
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Fineus on May 01, 2003, 05:34:51 pm
Quote
Originally posted by elorran
The point of manually writing HMTL is that it gives you far greater control over how to form and lay out a web page.  Asuming you know what you are doing, you can greatly exceed any capabilities of any standard web creation package.  This is of course dependant upon ones skills and knowledge of HTML though.

Thus far I have seen no one actually ask how skilled thunder is at html ;)

Not that good but I enjoy keeping control of my code - I've seen to many people get crappy code because they dragged a table a bit to far and had to move it back or something like that in college to try it now. And you've hit the nail on the head - I enjoy knowing exactly what a page is made up of - not vague ideas but being lost without a pretty GUI. As it is I can now read other peoples pages a lot better than I used to be able to in raw HTML just by doing my own in Notepad.

I'm no guru, but I know enough to get by for what I need. Example of what I've done?

www.worthingcollegesu.com

My colleges Student Union site. They say it's the best they've ever had :)

Edit: And yes, that is me in the picture of the war protest in the news section. I'm lurking ;)
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: silverwolf on May 01, 2003, 06:21:08 pm
winamp
infran view
worpad
deus ex
freelancer
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Joey_21 on May 01, 2003, 06:34:39 pm
1. Notepad
2. Joey_21's Scientitic Calculator
3. mIRC32
4. CuteFTP
5. Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 01, 2003, 08:53:01 pm
Irfanview
TS 5.1
PSP7
Winapm
Paint
Freecell

*quickly changes back to classic menu*
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Fetty on May 01, 2003, 10:29:51 pm
hmm lets see not particular in order of aperance

msn messanger
winamp
IE
wintv
notepad
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Stunaep on May 01, 2003, 11:23:16 pm
Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer

Freecell
 
riiiight
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: kode on May 02, 2003, 06:04:04 am
Quote
Originally posted by Stunaep
riiiight


don't underestimate Freecell. My father plays it all the time.
good thing he doesn't have it for the Palm yet.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: J.F.K. on May 02, 2003, 06:11:41 am
Quote
Originally posted by Ashrak
alll the time but its encarved in start menu by default ;) my qestion is what the heck do you do with notepad? play freespace 2? :p


Notepad never crashes (well, not in my experience). Internet Explorer does. It's just a safety measure... few things more frustrating than typing out a huge post or email and clicking send, then getting an error, hitting 'back' and it's all gone. ;)

I took away the list (replaced it with a permanent one), but from memory, here's my five most frequently used:

Notepad
IE6
ICQ
Task Manager
WMPlayer
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Kamikaze on May 02, 2003, 09:42:18 am
Quote
Originally posted by Liberator
Kalifreth/Thunder, sir, you are a sadist.  

The guy that came up with HTML has said on camera that HTML is not supposed to be written by hand.


WYSIWYG editors almost always screw up a website if I'm trying to do xhtml (or even html) using stylesheets. Anyway, making a site with all style settings done from the external stylesheet makes the xhtml rather simple and easy. (the W3 recommends that)
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: CP5670 on May 02, 2003, 10:24:25 am
don't have XP, but I can definitely tell which programs I use most:

Turbo Navigator
Mathematica frontend
Freespace 2
FRED 2
Notepad

Quote
Notepad never crashes (well, not in my experience). Internet Explorer does. It's just a safety measure... few things more frustrating than typing out a huge post or email and clicking send, then getting an error, hitting 'back' and it's all gone.


Good to see I am not the only one who does that... :D
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: pyro-manic on May 02, 2003, 08:13:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by kode


don't underestimate Freecell. My father plays it all the time.
good thing he doesn't have it for the Palm yet.


FREECELL ROCKS!!!! :cool:
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Vertigo1 on May 04, 2003, 12:12:40 am
Winamp 2.68
Mozilla 1.2.1
Photoshop 7
3dsmax 5
Miranda ICQ
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: killadonuts on May 04, 2003, 12:30:00 am
Winamp
WinMX
Freespace 2
MSN Messenger
C & C Red Alert 2

Wow, so many programs
This list wasnt easy to make
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Knight Templar on May 04, 2003, 12:42:04 am
and which admin did you piss off?
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: J.F.K. on May 04, 2003, 01:52:26 am
Quote
Originally posted by CP5670
Good to see I am not the only one who does that... :D


It's the only way. :nod: :D
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: killadonuts on May 04, 2003, 02:06:50 am
Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
and which admin did you piss off?

This is the first time Ive been on here in a long long time
I noticed that little comment earlier when I posted
I would like to know why Im an idiot and why im in danger of being banned
I should be given an explanation at the least
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Stunaep on May 04, 2003, 04:29:39 am
probably the reason most things happen around here: Shrike got bored.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: beatspete on May 04, 2003, 05:44:15 am
:rolleyes:  Now i'll have to switch back to the XP style menu system - which i think sucks.

Realone Player
Freespace 2
PSP 7
Irfan View
Rhino 3.0 Evaluation
FRED 2

Winamp, IE, and truespace should really be on there.

*quickly changes back to classics menu system*

Ahh, thats better. :nod:
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: kode on May 04, 2003, 09:05:32 am
seriously, you people actually use the start menu?
good for you.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 04, 2003, 09:11:14 am
Quote
Originally posted by pyro-manic
FREECELL ROCKS!!!! :cool:

Yup. Though admitedly I played a lot more of it in my old 56k days when I had to wait for pages to load... I still play it compulsivly, mind
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: beatspete on May 04, 2003, 09:32:07 am
Quote
Originally posted by kode
seriously, you people actually use the start menu?


My sentiments excatly. Power to the desktop shortcuts!
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: kode on May 04, 2003, 09:36:06 am
Quote
Originally posted by beatspete


My sentiments excatly. Power to the desktop shortcuts!


actually, I use the quicklaunch bar and windows commander for everything.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: diamondgeezer on May 04, 2003, 09:54:09 am
Freecell on Ctrl+Alt+F, Winamp on Ctrl+Alt+A, and I'm happy :)
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Tiara on May 04, 2003, 09:54:53 am
Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Freecell on Ctrl+Alt+F


That's Freelancer! :p
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: beatspete on May 04, 2003, 10:00:45 am
Quote
Originally posted by kode


actually, I use the quicklaunch bar and windows commander for everything.



Well, quicklaunch yeah.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: J.F.K. on May 05, 2003, 03:46:00 am
To be truthful, I use the Run dialog more than the start bar... windows+R, then: winword, notepad, powercalc, iexplore, c:, taskmgr, wmplayer, cmd, etc.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Exarch on May 05, 2003, 08:05:45 am
Notepad
Fred2
Morrowind
Freespace2
mIRC

Guess I do use notepad quite a lot. But more than fred2? That's a bit of a surprise to me.
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Razor on May 05, 2003, 10:48:52 am
Quote
Originally posted by pyro-manic


FREECELL ROCKS!!!! :cool:


Don't bother kid. :lol:
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: Tiara on May 05, 2003, 10:55:49 am
Quote
Originally posted by Razor


Don't bother kid. :lol:


:wtf:

*kills razor*

:p
Title: XP Users: 5 frequently used programs.
Post by: IceFire on May 05, 2003, 03:54:54 pm
Heheh...here's my six:

- Winamp
- Wordpad
- Notepad
- Trillian
- FRED2
- Microsoft Word