Which Applications Do You Open When You Start Your Computer?
The computer and internet has become quite a big part of my life and I cannot imagine living without these two things, not that I am obsessed with it, but the fact that my work and personal things like blogging and researching cannot be accomplished without these.
I am a bit curious to know, what applications you open up when you boot up your computer?
For me the first few applications I always open while starting my PC are, these applications are not started on the PC startup as I like to boot my PC and start using it faster:
You could be a PC, a Mac or a Linux user, but you may still have some applications which you instantly open up when you start your PC. Let me know about them through your comments.





Madhur Kapoor
November 14th, 2008 at 1:27 pm #
Normally it is Firefox, Gtalk, Twhirl
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Harshad
November 14th, 2008 at 1:32 pm #
Linux
Firefox / Pidgin / Terminal and ofcourse, Dropbox is on auto-run.
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Pallab
November 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pm #
Opera is generally the first app I open.
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Aravind Jose T.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:36 pm #
Firefox and Google Chrome
JetAudio
Last.fm
Netmeter (:P)
uTorrent
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Sandip
November 14th, 2008 at 11:04 pm #
Fierfox only
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Sandip
November 14th, 2008 at 11:06 pm #
Oops!! i mean “Firefox”
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Nehemoth
November 14th, 2008 at 11:07 pm #
Firefox
Woopra
RDP (To Connect to the “server”, which utorrent and Emule are always running).
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Tug
November 15th, 2008 at 1:00 am #
Hm.
- Firefox
- Media Jukebox
- Thunderbird
That’s about it. :]
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techandlife
November 15th, 2008 at 4:03 am #
Firefox and Chrome
PowerDesk
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Gachinpo Feed
November 15th, 2008 at 4:19 am #
For me, I launch Firefox first then the IM Applications like Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger.
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Paal Christian
November 15th, 2008 at 11:01 am #
Windows Vista
- Messenger Live
- Outlook
- Chrome
- Feedreader
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Blinds
November 15th, 2008 at 1:43 pm #
As soon as my computer is on I instantly turn on iTunes and Chrome, and work from there.
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Matthias
November 15th, 2008 at 3:49 pm #
DiskUtility
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Money
November 15th, 2008 at 7:59 pm #
At work its Outlook, excel, and powerpoint.
At home its Firefox
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Minnesota Attorney
November 15th, 2008 at 8:03 pm #
Locate32 (a light-weight search for filenames)
Mozilla FireFox
Google Calendar Sync (to/from Outlook)
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft Outlook
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Minnesota Attorney
November 15th, 2008 at 8:10 pm #
I’m surprised so many people use Chrome. I presume they mean Google Chrome. While Chrome is decent as a light-weight browser, my impression was that both FireFox and IE7 were far superior in performance and features.
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Michael Henry
November 15th, 2008 at 11:21 pm #
I wonder, how many Chrome-domes read the EULA?
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Gamers
November 16th, 2008 at 1:03 pm #
IE only!
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Women's Clothes
November 17th, 2008 at 5:28 am #
Outlook Express!
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iChaitanya
November 17th, 2008 at 11:48 am #
Usually Vista…
Firefox
Gtalk
Yahoo Messenger
That’s it!
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