Useful and necessary programs for Windows 7

For many of us, experienced and novice users, the moment of acquiring a brand new PC is, first of all, a pleasant event. If a person has first-hand knowledge of Windows OS, then his first actions will be aimed at "software improvement" of the operating system. The standard distribution of any Microsoft products will quickly get bored with its "limited" beginner. And if for the first category of users it is quite clear what "the necessary programs for Windows 7" means (this OS-review is devoted to this OS), then the second group of people may feel a sense of confusion and discomfort peculiar to a little knowing person. To free you, dear reader, from the destructive effect of uncertainty, to give you useful food for thought and to guide along the path of rational choice, let us turn to a certain list of recommended software. That in the end will correspond to the optimal software configuration of your new PC.

Antivirus Software

Before you start installing the necessary programs for Windows 7, take care of digital security. Since it's no secret that any computing device, whether it's a desktop PC or a laptop computer, needs protection from malicious software. At the same time, there is a mass of such anti-virus software and various utilities that counteract the moment of "digital infection". All of them, however, like all software in general, are divided into two main groups: freely distributed and paid service programs.

• Avast Free Antivirus is a simple and at the same time quite effective in use antivirus product. This free tool to protect your PC will allow you to significantly improve the level of security when working with various data and during Internet sessions.
• AVG AntiVirus Free is also a freely available software, the built-in modules of which sufficiently effectively detect various viruses and neutralize the bad code.

If you need more serious protection, in the context of this section "Necessary programs for Windows 7" it is worth mentioning two popular antivirus products: Kaspersky Internet Security and Eset Smart Security. However, in spite of the fact that the mentioned software is paid, the user can always use the test version to understand how useful the use of such software is.

To view multimedia material at the highest level ...

The list of "Required Programs for Windows 7" includes various audio and video players. After all, quite often a novice user encounters a peculiar problem: a movie downloaded from the network has an "incomprehensible" format for the built-in Windows Media Viewer. Everything is quite easy to solve if you install a special package of codecs K-Lite Codec Pack, as well as to install the appropriate multimedia software.

• AIMP is an incredibly convenient program through which a user can listen to audio files and even view video content in a Windows 7 environment.
• Programs for working with sound - MP3DIRECTCUT, Free Audio Converter and AVS Audio Recorder - will significantly expand the capabilities of your computer in processing music tracks and recording your own voice.
• Install the free VLC Media Player and you will not only be able to view your favorite movies, clips and other multimedia content in various formats, but also take video content online using the Ace Stream Media media platform.

Archivers and convenient unpacking of data

Unfortunately, the operating environment of Windows 7 does not have a built-in tool for full work with * rar-archives. Therefore, the user is forced to independently equip his PC with a convenient "packaging" tool. Without such a program for a computer, Windows 7 is helpless when it comes to the need to compress a file to a "small size" state.

Office programs and their free alternative

To work with text and tables, there is no more convenient tool than Microsoft Office. However, for many reasons, some users do not need to purchase, in general, not cheap product of the company of the same name. To work with the text, you can use the functional and at the same time free office suite Open Office.

Perhaps, for some of you, dear reader, there will be enough miniature Notepad ++. By the way, without Adobe Acrobat Reader you can not work with files that have a PDF extension.

"Creativity" of the PC: programs for creating

Windows 7, as, indeed, any other OS of the Microsoft family, does not have enough serious integrated software for editing and processing any photographic material. Therefore, the built-in graphical Windows-tools can hardly be called thorough in this respect, and therefore it is required to install special software that would correspond to the user's requests. By installing a free Gimp editor on your PC, you can achieve almost identical results, as if you were using a popular but expensive Adobe Photoshop.

Instead of a regular summing-up

Well, you have read the basic list of necessary software. Nevertheless, I would like to mention some useful programs for Windows 7, among which special attention should be given to a fairly efficient optimizer CCleaner.

• Convenient, and at the same time free software will help you keep your OS in "digital cleanliness".
• Easy-to-use program contains a number of incredibly effective applications, using which you can make the correct uninstall process, and also not without comfort to manage the startup list, thereby increasing the level of performance of your PC.
• With just a few clicks, the user can fix errors in the registry, free up the "littered" disk space and completely destroy unwanted confidential data.

Download Punto Switcher on your PC - and working with any text editor will be much more enjoyable and more productive. The application automatically changes the language layout of the keyboard, relying on the intelligent algorithm of the program. Therefore, you do not have to reprint the words and whole sentences, which for obvious reasons (as a result of human forgetfulness) are displayed on the screen in the form of incomprehensible symbols.

That's it, be attentive and selective in the process of choosing and installing the software you need!