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Some apps are pre-installed in the operating system. Most times we don't know of new available software or whether we need them. At times, users just install multiple random software on their pc. This unnecessarily consumes and occupies the hard disk memory space. Below are 10+ basic programs or software needed on a new computer.

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Basic software on a windows and apple pc

Important software needed on a computer system.

1. Web browsers

A web browser is a program that allows you to search and view information on the internet. It is a software required to browse and surf the internet. It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for users to interact with the web servers.



Top 5 Recommended web browsers for surfing the internet.

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge is an inbuilt default web browser in Windows 10 operating system. It is a software developed by Microsoft replacing Internet Explorer. It has an integration with Cortana, Adobe flash player, PDF reader, annotation tools and reading mode. This web browser is also available on Windows 10, Windows 10 mobile, and Xbox consoles.

Mozilla Firefox

Firefox is a free and open-source web browser developed by Mozilla foundation. Some features of Mozilla Firefox include download manager, private browsing, smart bookmarks, tabbed browsing, and several others. It has an integration with internet download manager (IDM). It is available and runs on Windows OS, Linux, Mac OS X, Android, and iOS

Google Chrome

Chrome is another free popular web browser developed by Google. It is the main component of the Chrome operating system. It is a very good browser for surfing the internet. It was first available on only Windows OS, but it was later introduced to Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android

Opera

Opera is a web browser developed by opera software for windows OS, Linux, and OS X. It has a built-in tabbed browsing, add-ons, speed dial, bookmarks bar, and a download manager. The mobile version of this web browser, Opera Mini, is available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and blackberry.

UC browser

It is a Chinese internet company owned by Alibaba. UC Browser is a mobile browser which is available on Microsoft Windows OS, Android, iOS, and Windows phone. It has a cloud storage service (Ucloud) for uploading files.

2. Antivirus software

Antivirus program protects your computer from virus attacks. It is a piece of software that checks/detects any form of malware, then delete or neutralize the effects of computer-based virus. Antivirus programs are equipped with features that enable them to run in the background without affecting the system performance which also enable8 the program to alert users of any virus detected. There are varieties of Antivirus software but I would recommend a few popular and good ones.




Top antivirus program to protect pc

6 Best antivirus programs to protect your pc

McAfee Antivirus

It is a virus Scan software developed by McAfee. McAfee antivirus is available on Windows OS, Mac OS X, and Linux. It has a spyware protection and a firewall as part of its features. It can detect spam emails, malware, and phishing. It also provides daily definition updates to make sure your pc is safe.

Norton Antivirus

Norton Antivirus is a virus detection software developed and marketed by Symantec Corporation. It filters spam emails, and protects your pc against phishers. It is available on Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows operating systems.

Avast Antivirus

Avast Antivirus is a free popular virus detection/scanner software and internet security application developed by Avast software. Other products of Avast include Avast free Mac security, Avast Internet security, Avast pro antivirus and Avast premier. It runs on Microsoft windows, Mac OS and Android.

Kaspersky Antivirus

It is an antivirus program designed to detect, fight and clean up any form of malware. Some of its features include real-time protection, detection and removal of viruses, Trojans, spywares, keyloggers, worms, and rootkits. Kaspersky lab developed it primarily for Microsoft windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

AVG

AVG is a security software developed by AVG Technologies for Windows, Android, and Mac.

Bitdefender Antivirus.

Bitdefender is a Romanian internet security software company that developed Bitdefender Antivirus. It protects your pc against internet security threats such as viruses, Trojans, rootkits, spam and other security threats. Antivirus made by Bitdefender include Bitdefender Total Security, Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac, Bitdefender Mobile Security for Android, and Bitdefender GravityZone Enterprise Security.

3. Office Suite

An office suite is a collection of bundled productivity software for producing documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, etc. The basic components of the office suite include word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, and database software.




Best open source office suite software

Top 5 Open source Office suite software

Microsoft Office

Microsoft office are suites of productivity open source applications developed by Microsoft. It contains Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft OneNote. It currently runs on windows OS and Mac OS X. It is also available and free on the mobile devices. It is available on iOS, Android, Windows 10 and Windows 10 mobile

Apache OpenOffice

Apache OpenOffice is an open-source productivity software developed by Apache software Foundation. It contains a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and a database management application (Base). It is available on Linux, OS X, and Microsoft Windows

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free and open-source office suite developed by The Document Foundation for Linux, Windows, OS X, and Android

NeoOffice

NeoOffice is an office suite developed for the Mac OS X by Planasema Inc?

KOffice

KOffice is a free and open-source office suite for Windows. KOffice contains a word processor (KWord), a spreadsheet program (KSpread), and a presentation program (KPresenter)

Adobe reader

Adobe Acrobat is developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

4. Media player

A media player is a software that allows you to play and view multimedia files like videos, movies, pictures and music. Windows Media player is usually in built in older versions of windows. A new media player Microsoft Groove has been included in Microsoft Windows 10. OS X comes with QuickTime Player.





popular media player software

Top 5 popular Media player software

Microsoft Groove

Microsoft Groove is a music player developed by Microsoft for windows 10 OS. It is a music streaming and subscription-based service allowing unlimited streaming of the service's catalog

VLC media player

VLC media player is another popular free and open source music and video player. It is a cross-platform media player written and developed by the VideoLAN. VLC is available on Windows OS, Mac OS X and mobile platforms, such as Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone, Android, iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch.

Spotify

Spotify is a Swedish music application that gets content from record labels and media companies. It is only available in selected countries. It is available on Android, iOS, Windows, OS X, Windows Phone, Linux

Windows media player

Windows Media player is usually pre-installed in the windows operating system. It is a media player used to view images, watch movies and play music.

Adobe flash player

Adobe Flash Player is a software for using content created on the Adobe Flash platform (multimedia, streaming video and audio). Flash Player can run from a web browser as a browser plug-in and also on supported mobile devices. Flash Player is a software developed and distributed by Adobe Systems.

 5. File archive software

A file archive software is a computer program that combines a number of files or folders together into one archive file for easy storage. File archivers reduce the size of the archived file or folder. Archiving means making an archive file (compression) and Unarchiving means returning the original files from the archive (DE-compression).





Top file archive software/utility

Top 3 file archive software/utility

7zip

7-Zip is an open-source file archive software that can be used for file Compression and De-compression. 7-Zip has its own 7z archive format and can also read other archive formats.

WinZip

WinZip is a popular compression utility and file archiver developed by WinZip Computing. It is used to compress and de-compress files. It is available on Windows OS, Mac OS X, iOS and Android.

PeaZip

PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager, compression utility and file archiver for Microsoft Windows OS and Linux.

6. Graphics software (Image editor)

A graphics software is an editor (image) that can be used to create, design and edit/manipulate images computer. This software are available on different platforms.




Image editor and graphic software

Top 5 Image editor and graphic software

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics/image editor and creator developed by Adobe Systems. It is available on mac OS X and Windows. Other image editor developed and made by Adobe are Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Lightroom, Photoshop Express and Photoshop Touch.

Serif Drawplus X8

Serif, a UK-based software company developed a 2D vector graphics editor, Serif Drawplus. DrawPlus can be used to produce Stop frame and Key frame animations. Serif also produced PhotoPlus, PagePlus, WebPlus, Digital Scrapbook Artist, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Photo

Gimp

GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation, editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more cool tasks. It is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows.

Paint.net

Paint.net is a free raster graphics editor designed mainly for Microsoft Windows OS.

Corel Draw home

CorelDraw is a vector graphics editor for editing two-dimensional images such as logos and posters. It has been developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. It is available on Windows OS, Linux, and Mac OS X

7. Download manager

A download manager is a computer software for downloading files and documents from the internet. Download managers are preferred to web browser’s download manager because they are faster when downloading files. I would give out 2 download managers that are very fast and useful




Fast and stable download managers

Fast and stable download managers

µTorrent

µTorrent is a software developed by BitTorrent, Inc. for downloading torrent files. It is available on Windows and Android

Internet Download Manager (IDM)

IDM is a very fast download manager available on the Microsoft Windows operating system. It divides downloads into multiple streams for faster downloading. It has lots of features which include; Batch downloads, Import/Export download jobs, Auto/manual updating of download address, multiple queues, Recent downloads list for easy access to directories, Video downloading from streaming video sites, Dynamic segmentation throughout the downloading process. IDM supports Internet explorer, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Apple safari, Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, UC browser and several others web browser.

8. Registry cleaner

A registry cleaner is a utility to remove redundant items from the Windows registry. It is designed for the windows operating system




registry cleaner that removes reduntant items

Registry cleaner that removes redundant items quickly

TuneUp utilities

AVG PC TuneUp is a utility software suite for Microsoft Windows designed to help manage, maintain, optimize, configure and troubleshoot a computer system and developed by TuneUp Software GmbH.

Ccleaner.

CCleaner is a utility program developed by Piriform to clean and delete potentially unwanted files left by certain programs such as web browsers (Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari), Microsoft Office, McAfee, Adobe Flash Player, etc. along with browsing history, cookies, memory dumps, file fragments, log files, system caches, application data and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. CCleaner can uninstall programs or modify the list of programs that execute on startup. It is available on Mac OS X and Windows OS.

9. Skype

Skype is an instant messaging application that allows users to communicate over the internet through video chat and voice call services. Users can also exchange images, video, text and video messages. Skype allows the creation of video conference calls. 




Skype

Skype is available on Microsoft Windows OS, Mac OS X, Linux, Android, Blackberry, iOS and Windows smartphones and tablets. Skype Credit can be used to call a mobile phone number. Skype-to-Skype calls to other users are free of charge, while calls to mobile phone numbers are charged via a debit-based user account system called Skype Credit.

10. Google drive

Google drive
Google Drive is a file storage service created and developed by Google. It allows users to store files in the cloud, share files, and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Google Drive encompasses Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.




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