Thursday, May 31, 2012

knowing what needs after formatiing a pc / windows machine

After you have formatted your computer everything's a mess , all the datas, personal files , applications and softwares are gone. In this post i'll be teaching you how to deal with this problem , basically what softwares you need to install now so that you are good to go all the time

1. Driver : Make sure that you installed driver for intel chipset , installed graphics card driver (if you have one) , Hardware specific drivers like:- webcam , trackpad, sensor , finger recognition , touch screen etc.

2. Media player : make sure you get a media player after you format for playing  several media codecs , its better that you get Vlc media player , it is a open source and it basically plays all the formats available including blu-ray , mpeg, mkv , 3gp and lots of other codecs too.

3. Audio player: Although vlc media player and lots of other players can handle music playing but its important that you get music player too . To keep your music library organized its important that you get itunes.

4. Pdf reader: Its a most widely used formant when it comes to handling documents. Its better that you get a player like adobe reader , foxit pdf reader etc after you have formatted your computer

5. Text editors / presentation / spreadsheet : For the editing of text , doing some calculations and for the presentation you might need softwares like microsoft word , excel or powerpoint or you can get any open source office suites online though you can also find inbuilt windows editor like notepad and word pad microsoft suites can be used for advanced editing.

6. Web browser : make sure you get the latest web browser , if you are a hardcore web surfer and web lover then it is recommended that you use firefox web browser .

7. other softwares : you might use softwares like yahoo messenger, Skype etc

8. Functionality softwares : Also you need to make sure that you have softwares that increases functionality like archiver (winrar) , Antivirus (kaspersky) , adobe suites like: photoshop , Picasa image viwer , torrent clients , frostwire (p2p file sharing software) , team viewer and your favorite games.

9. Update : make sure you install windows updates , update the adobe flash and update other tools that are necessary to operate fluently.

Hope i have listed all the items to be installed/ included after formatting your windows machine , if you got one make sure to update on the comments below also do me a great favour by liking the post below



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