Tools

I've been struggling with Vista on a Dell D420 laptop recently. It is described as "Vista Capable". It is nothing of the sort. So tonight I reverted back to XP Pro and have started the long slow re-install of all my favourite applications. This is what I pretty much always install on XP machines now: Windows XP SP2 plus all updates Internet Explorer 7 Firefox (plus some standard add-ons) KeePass password manager Nokia N-Series PC Suite PDFCreator AVG Anti-Virus Microsoft Office 2007 Adobe Acrobat Reader Pidgin Instant Messenger Filezilla FTP Client Skype OpenOffice Sun