Which Applications Do You Open When You Start Your Computer?
By on November 14th, 2008

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.

This is My PC Setup :)

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 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.

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  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    Normally it is Firefox, Gtalk, Twhirl

  • http://harshadsharma.name/ Harshad

    Linux

    Firefox / Pidgin / Terminal and ofcourse, Dropbox is on auto-run.

  • http://www.pallab.net Pallab

    Opera is generally the first app I open.

  • http://aravindjose.com/blog/ Aravind Jose T.

    Firefox and Google Chrome
    JetAudio
    Last.fm
    Netmeter (:P)
    uTorrent

  • http://www.blogsdna.com Sandip

    Fierfox only

  • http://www.blogsdna.com Sandip

    Oops!! i mean “Firefox”

  • http://www.nehemoth.com Nehemoth

    Firefox
    Woopra
    RDP (To Connect to the “server”, which utorrent and Emule are always running).

  • http://www.tugsays.com Tug

    Hm.

    - Firefox
    - Media Jukebox
    - Thunderbird

    That’s about it. :]

  • http://www.techandlife.com techandlife

    Firefox and Chrome
    PowerDesk

  • http://gachinpofeed.blogspot.com Gachinpo Feed

    For me, I launch Firefox first then the IM Applications like Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger.

  • http://www.bjonnes.net/ Paal Christian

    Windows Vista
    - Messenger Live
    - Outlook
    - Chrome
    - Feedreader

  • http://www.blindsinfo.co.uk Blinds

    As soon as my computer is on I instantly turn on iTunes and Chrome, and work from there.

  • http://sailtheworld.de Matthias

    DiskUtility :-)

  • http://waystomakemoneyincollege.com Money

    At work its Outlook, excel, and powerpoint.
    At home its Firefox

  • http://www.aaronhall.com/ Minnesota Attorney

    Locate32 (a light-weight search for filenames)
    Mozilla FireFox
    Google Calendar Sync (to/from Outlook)
    Microsoft OneNote
    Microsoft Outlook

  • http://www.aaronhall.com/ Minnesota Attorney

    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.

  • http://www.michaelhenryonline.com/2008/11/marketing-fifty-cents-got-me-over-a-hundred-potential-leads/ Michael Henry

    I wonder, how many Chrome-domes read the EULA?

  • http://www.GamingLaptopComputer.com Gamers

    IE only!

  • http://www.femaleshopper.co.uk Women’s Clothes

    Outlook Express!

  • http://twitter.com/iChaitanya iChaitanya

    Usually Vista…

    Firefox
    Gtalk
    Yahoo Messenger

    That’s it!

  • http://www.cube-media.de Webspace

    Thanks for the post. Hope to see more articles regarding this one. It will really be a big help.
    Thank you

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1167872885 Pisey Phousnileak N Zechariah

    Smiling is good for health.

 
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