Showing posts with label installation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label installation. Show all posts

2009-06-09

Clean System Installation v0.6

List of most useful free programs for freshly installed OS.

Antivirus:
Microsoft Security Essentials (recommended)
Avast Home
Avira Personal

File archiver:
7zip 32-bit
7zip x64

Browser:
Firefox
Chrome
Opera
Safari

Flash Player:

IE
non IE

.pdf Reader:

Adobe Reader
Foxit Reader

Java plug-in:

Java

Silverlight:

Silverlight

Burner:

ImgBurn

Imaging:

Photo Gallery
Picasa
Irfan View
FastStone

Codeck Pack:

cccp
K-Lite Codec Pack

Video:

VLC

Audio:

Winamp (recommended)
aimp2
Songbird

Malware Removal:
Malicious Software Removal Tool 32-bit
Malicious Software Removal Tool x64

Messaging:

Google Talk
Skype
Windows Live Messenger

Torrents:

Micro Torrent

Virtual Drive:

VirtualClone Drive

Mail:
Windows Live Mail
Thunderbird
Zimbra

Mail Spam Filters:
Spamihilator (works with Outlook 2000/XP/2003/Express, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, IncrediMail, Pegasus Mail, Phoenix Mail, Opera, etc…)
Cactus Spam Filter (this spam stopper integrates seamlessly with all e-mail clients that use POP3)

System Maintenance:

CCleaner (uninstaller, registry cleaner, temp files cleaner and more)
Revo Uninstaller

HDD Maintenance:

Smart Defrag

Recover lost data (deleted files, formatted data)
Recuva

2008-10-15

Problem installing Windows Server 2003 / Windows XP

Encountered a problem during install of windows server 2003. I mentioned in the title Windows XP also because when I googled for solution (which was rather simple) to this problem I've found that people had exact same problem installing windows XP.
After I've chosen partition to install to and setup begun copying files to hard disk I've got an error "setup cannot copy the file: msdart.dll" (I guess it could be any file)
pressed enter to Retry, temporary skipped/copied this file, but then I got the same error for file driver.cab.
The cause of this turns out to be as simple as unclean CD.
Opened my cd-rom, cleaned the CD, put it back in and pressed Enter to Retry and continue installation.
From this point everything went smooth.

Links:
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Problem-installing-Windows-XP-Pro-t36332.html