The kind of Applications you should install on a new Computer depends on factors like, for what purpose you are going to use it. But I’ll am telling you the best apps to install on a fresh Computer.

Microsoft Security Essentials

This should be the first app you should install because it is going to protect your PC from getting affected by a virus and will keep all your work safe. We have written a list of Free Anti Virus, you can choose any of it from them, but Microsoft Security Essentials is recommended.

VLC Player

Playing Songs and Videos is another big part of PC now, You may have to watch a video or two later so VLC is the best one out there which can play almost every format Video.

Google Chrome

Your Computer may already have a browser that’s called Internet Explorer, use it to download Google Chrome as it makes your web surfing experience wonderful. It’s Fast, it’s simple and it’s from Google.

OpenOffice

Computers are mainly used for creating documents, spread sheets, presentation etc. OpenOffice gives you all that for Free which Microsoft Office gives you for $$$.

Picasa

I love to keep my Digital photos organized and Picasa helps me do that. It is a beautiful photo managers which supports basic editing and you can also backup your phones are Picasa gives 1GB space on them web for every account.

Skype

It lets you same a lot of money by letting you talk (Voice or Video) anyone in the world (who has got Skype on internet enabled Computer obviously) for Free. Also offers cheap rates to make long distance calls to Phones.

Nimbuzz

A multi protocol messenger which lets you add your Yahoo messengers, MSN Messenger, Google Talk and Facebook Chat at one place. This save a lot of time logging in for all the services differently.

7-Zip

Computer these days ( or computers in future) support .zip files but you may find it difficult to open a .rar file, which you will find it more often. 7-Zip would help you with it.

Xmarks

It is a life saver, a bookmarking app available for all the popular browsers which keeps your password, search, bookmarks synced. You are going to love it if you use multiple computers.

HandBrake

It lets you rip your DVDs in many different formats so that you can enjoy them on any Media Player or Mobile phone or Tablet PC.

Adobe PDF Reader

.pdf is a popular format for documents. You may find many Free PDF readers on the web but Adobe PDF reader works well and is Free as well.

TweetDeck

TweetDeck is now a part of Twitter officially, and is a very nice twitter client which lets you add your Facebook account also. Keeping a tab on every tweet from people you follow becomes easy with TweetDeck.

Evernote

A Note taking application which offers apps for multiple platforms, Mac, PC, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and the Web. Take a note on PC and you get it synced on your phone’s Evernote app.

Dropbox

It creates a folder on your Computer, when you put a file in that folder, it automatically gets synced and is made available to other places you have installed it ( Android, iPhone or Computer)

CCleaner

Install this application and run it once or twice every month and your Computer will never bug you by slowing down. It analysis the unwanted data in C Drive (or where the OS is installed) on your Computer and removes it.