Windows 7 on Dell Inspiron 8600

The first installation result was a little dissapointing, because of two points:

1. there is only a standard video driver for my ati radeon graphic with a limited support for resolution options
2. the sounds did not work

Point 2. is working now. I downloaded the old audio-sigmatel-driver from dell-support (for win XP). Cancel the Installation when it is extracted on disk. Go to the device Manager. Select the audio question mark and choose „install driver from disk“ and point to the extracted files.

Initial pc standard setup

This is my personal collections of free tools, I need on a newly installed pc. In my case this is usally on windows…

• Firefox –
• Trillian – instant messaging with icq/aol, msn and yahoo
• Proton – quick text editor with syntax highlighting and regexp-search-replace
• JEdit – extendable high performance text editor
• MWSnap – Screen capturing
• Wink – Movie Screen capturing, generating Flash-Videos (.swf)
• IrfanView – Image viewing (various formats)
• Filezilla– FTP Client
• Disktective — shows harddisk usage graphically
• Azureus – Bittorrent Client for File Sharing
• Ethereal — Network traffic analyser for multiple protocolls
• ZoneAlarm – Personal Firewall controlling and monitoring the applications accessing the internet
• AddAware – Can find with scans malicious software installed
• UltraVNC – Remote Desktop Tool
• Acrobat Reader — PDF viewing
• Winamp – Audio player
• VideoLAN – Video player (various formats)
• Quicktime – Video player (.mov-format)
• Realplayer – Video player (.rm-format)
• Google Earth — World viewer
• 7-Zip –file compressing and decompressing

• Eclipse – the one and only integrated development environment
• Tortoise SVN — client for revision control with subversion

More updates and/or specific information on some of them, are coming soon…