My Windows 7 install got compromised with a root-kit or something, the symptom being that I couldn’t access Windows Update. No Anti-Malware/Virus was capable of correcting it so I had to format and re-install Windows. Doing that is a PITA and I leave here a list of the stuff I install and do after a fresh Windows installation.
- GRUB – I re-install GRUB so I can access Linux again.
- PuTTY – So I can ssh to the Linux machines. After install I setup some ssh keys so I can login without keyboard authentication.
- 7-Zip – Open source archive manager
- Open Office
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
- Delicious extensions for Firefox and Chrome
- Microsoft Office
- Virtual Box
- Google Chat
- Windows Live Messenger
- Hack to reduce the delay of Aero peek
- Garmin Mapsource
- CutePDF
- Transmission-remote-dotnet