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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stunaep on November 21, 2003, 04:50:55 pm

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Stunaep on November 21, 2003, 04:50:55 pm

Yes, the long awaited second iteration of the "Six Most used Windows Programs" thread is here. Windows XP users, list the six frequently accessed programs that appear on your start menu list.

Mine:

FreeCell
3d Studio Max
Notepad
Pinball
Minesweeper
Bersirc IRC.

I am NEVER lettting my parents use my PC again. :p

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Ashrak on November 21, 2003, 04:59:23 pm

winamp
Trillian
Darkspace
paint shop pro 7
DC++
Battlefield 1942

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: phreak on November 21, 2003, 05:05:17 pm

winamp
IE 6.0
VC++ 6
notepad
fs2_open
word

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 21, 2003, 05:14:34 pm

1) Cataclysm
2) McAfee Parental Controls
3) Windows Media Player
4) Homeworld
5) Word
6) Starcraft Brood War.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: TheCelestialOne on November 21, 2003, 05:35:34 pm

Quote

Originally posted by nuclear1
2) McAfee Parental Controls

Sorry, but :wtf:

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: TheCelestialOne on November 21, 2003, 05:37:10 pm

Word
Fred (:D)
PSP
Winrar
Calculator
Homeworld 2

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: kode on November 21, 2003, 05:59:53 pm

total commander (windows commander! why they changed the name?)
outlook express
tvtool
palm quick install
winscp3

this list is in no way at all accurate. I use windows commander for almost everything. except starting windows commander and outlook express. I have about 60 folders in the start menu programs menu, because I never use it, and everything I install puts a folder there.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 21, 2003, 06:28:40 pm

Quote

Originally posted by TheCelestialOne

Sorry, but :wtf:

Was waiting for someone to do that :D

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: adwight on November 21, 2003, 06:30:41 pm

Internet Explorer
Microsoft Word
Truespace 3
Paint Shop Pro 7
MSN Messenger 6.0
Frozen Throne

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: 01010 on November 21, 2003, 09:01:55 pm

Hmm, porn.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Setekh on November 21, 2003, 11:52:11 pm

1. Notepad
2. Eudora
3. Word
4. Windows Media Player
5. GetRight
6. I only have 5 on my start menu, because I changed it to make it smaller. :p

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: mikhael on November 22, 2003, 12:35:23 am

I'd list the top six on mine, but well, they don't involve Lightwave or games or editors or web browsers or compilers. That leaves horrible implications.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: kasperl on November 22, 2003, 08:26:34 am

i offed anything that looked like Luna, and i switched everything back to the win9x interface.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Admiral LSD on November 22, 2003, 08:38:43 am

Windows Classic looks like utter ass.

I'm in the middle of a reformat so some of the default icons are still in the list (even though I've never used them) but here's what's on mine atm:

Set Program Access and Defaults
MSN Explorer
Windows Media Player
Tour Windows XP
Freespace 2
Descent Freespace
XChat
Brood War 1.10 Loader (;))
My Shared Folder
Gaim

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Stealth on November 22, 2003, 09:54:09 am

Quote

Originally posted by TheCelestialOne

Sorry, but :wtf:

Parental Controls, because i'm guessing not everyone's in their 20s here.  i met a 9 year old on HLP a year or so ago :D

1) Adobe Photoshop
2) Trillian
3) Winamp
4) Starcraft Brood War
5) Internet Explorer
6) Cute FTP Client


I'm not running XP on this machine, so i don't have that interesting option you guys have :p  i just guessed, but those six programs i use the most.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: diamondgeezer on November 22, 2003, 09:58:45 am

Says here:

Wordpad
Irfan
TrueSpace
Winamp
PCS
WS_FTP

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: LtNarol on November 22, 2003, 10:45:46 am

Word
Wordpad
PSP7
TS
Paint
LW

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Sandwich on November 22, 2003, 03:47:32 pm

1 - Freespace 3
2 - C&C: Tiberian Night
3 - Hostile Waters II: New Ship on Da Reef
4 - Battlezone 3
5 - Midtown Madness 3 (PC Edition)
5.1 - SimCity 5: Return of the Arcologies
5.2 - Ground Control 2
6 - Hardware Upgrade Guide for P4-3Ghz - Companion CD

:D

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: TheCelestialOne on November 22, 2003, 05:27:52 pm

Quote

Originally posted by nuclear1


Was waiting for someone to do that :D

Yeah, but parental controls!? Any friggin moron can bypass that :p Just buy one of those little lockout thingies for on your tower. That keeps people from reaching the on/off button.

Saw one with a nice digital encoder and a manual lock :D

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Sheepy on November 22, 2003, 05:36:54 pm

Windows Media Player
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
Visual IRC
Kazaa Lite
Microsoft Word
Shortcut to Launcer

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: IceFire on November 22, 2003, 05:49:30 pm

Trillian
Winamp
Microsoft Word
Notepad
IL-2 Forgotten Battles
First Class
UBI.com
Hyperlobby

Oh yeah :D

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Goober5000 on November 22, 2003, 05:56:09 pm

Quote

Originally posted by Sandwich
1 - Freespace 3

:wtf: You have a time machine that we don't know about?

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Sheepy on November 22, 2003, 06:05:06 pm

cause im sure he has all the other stuff as well :rolleyes:

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Sandwich on November 23, 2003, 01:04:12 am

Quote

Originally posted by Sheepy
cause im sure he has all the other stuff as well :rolleyes:

I just figured that since I don't have XP's 6 frequently used programs thingy and would have to make up the programs, I might as well make up the programs. :D

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Woolie Wool on November 23, 2003, 02:05:27 am

:lol:

You forgot Duke Nukem Forever though.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Ulala on November 23, 2003, 02:10:54 am

lol...

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Gloriano on November 23, 2003, 05:18:42 am

ICQ
PS7
wordpad
notepad
PSP8
IL-2&IL-2 Forrgotten battles
Freespace2
3ds max

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: TopAce on November 23, 2003, 03:27:03 pm

GtkRadiant 1.3.8-jk2
FRED2_open
FRED2_retail
Notepad
Internet Explorer
maybe TrueSpace or Photoshop 7.0

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: HotSnoJ on November 23, 2003, 09:05:09 pm

1. notepad
2. Blender
3. Halo (it's climbing really fast :p)
4. Dynomite (some crappy MSN game my bro installed. :hopping: )
5. Halo Trial
6. Collapse (another stupid MSN game)

As you can see most programs I use are on the "pinned" list. :blah: Pin list 0wnz j00!

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Admiral LSD on November 23, 2003, 09:07:38 pm

You have both the demo and commercial versions of Halo installed? :wtf:

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: HotSnoJ on November 24, 2003, 05:48:56 am

Quote

Originally posted by Admiral LSD
You have both the demo and commercial versions of Halo installed? :wtf:

Shyeah! I installed it before I got the game, and some of my buddies don't have the game yet. And on top of the fact that I'm kinda lazy when it comes to deleting/uninstalling stuff. :D That's why I have 160GB worth of space on this baby. ;)

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Turnsky on November 24, 2003, 05:51:22 am

1. photoshop 7
2. IE
3. Trillian
4. Smart FTP
5. ZoneAlarm
6. Dreamweaver Ultradev

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: beatspete on November 24, 2003, 07:16:11 am

So I said
"Well how about I give you the finger... *gives finger*... and I get my phonecall"
Using that phonecall, i reset my menu to the classic windows menu - which = teh 0wn.

Moral of the story: the new XP menu sucks.

And I still have a mouth.  Bonus.

Thus, lacking the ability to easily check what 6 programs i use (plus i'm not on my home pc), I'll compile a nice realistic list for you.


1.Winamp
2.Rhino 3D
3.Paintshop Pro 7
4.Truespace 3.2
5.Realplayer
6.Whatever game i'm playing at the time.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Admiral LSD on November 24, 2003, 07:22:19 am

No, the old menu sucks hard. Having your most commonly used programs available without having to drill down into the 'Programs' menu, minimise everything to access the desktop ot fumble about with the mouse to use the Quick Launch toolbar = teh 0wn. The only problem with it is that it takes a ****ing age for it to learn your habits, I *still* have 4 of default shortcuts in there even though I'll never use them in my life.

edit: Did I mention the fact you can also 'Pin' your own stuff to that pane rocks the house as well? No? Well it does.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: beatspete on November 24, 2003, 07:29:18 am

Quote

Originally posted by Admiral LSD
No, the old menu sucks hard.

Quicklaunch toolbar? The bit with the icons next to the start button?  It is teh 0wn. One click opening of any program is sweet.  Make your taskbar two rows deep to take full advantage. Then you can get 10, 12 of your favourite programs in it.  Not jsut 6.

And desktop icons are sweet too.  Power to the old style windows!

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Admiral LSD on November 24, 2003, 07:30:47 am

But you can't access either of those conveniently with the keyboard ;)

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: beatspete on November 24, 2003, 07:32:49 am

Mouse= your friend. Ofcourse.
I just preffer it cause i use the mouse more. Its easier to use at a full arms reach, ie more slouching in chair - and it keeps the other hand free for... ummm... a drink.  Yes.

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Gortef on November 24, 2003, 10:05:11 am

IE
mIrc
DC++
PTC
Photoshop7
WMP

Title: It's The Six Most Used Windows Programs Time!
Post by: Galemp on November 24, 2003, 01:56:25 pm

Well I use a Mac OSX GUI for Windows, so I keep everything in the dock... here's what I use, though.
1) Trillian
2) Internet Explorer
3) 3D Studio Max
4) iTunes
5) Irfanview
6) TMBG Clock Radio

woo! (http://web.njit.edu/~pjo3/osxp.jpg)