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# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 4/30/2004 11:01 AM Dave Donaldson

Here's my 24x7 list:

- SharpReader
- Windows Explorer
- Visual Studio

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 4/30/2004 11:46 AM AndrewSeven

At work, Outlook is always open, except when I close it by mistake.

SharpReadrer at work and at home, runs on startup and I rarely close it.

The google deskbar if it counts.

Messenger, but at home it is usualy my girlfriend who is signed in, not me.

Everything else I close on a regular basis, but VS.Net, Explorer and IE tend to get reopened wthout much delay.

I never have the MSDN Doc open, I use the online version + Google.

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 4/30/2004 12:06 PM Ryan

My list:

Winamp 5.0 (ALWAYS open and playing)
Visual Studio (of course)
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
Internet Explorer (generally about 5-7 instances)
Style XP
Trillian
Outlook
MSSQL Server
Norton Anti-Virus (auto-protect)
And, occasionally, Soulseek

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 4/30/2004 1:59 PM Sheldon

Homesite
Mozilla (my default browser)
A few IE Windows for testing
SQL Server Enterprise Manager
SQL Query Analyzer
RDP connection or two to local DEV servers
WS_FTP
Outlook Express
Windows Explorer

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 4/30/2004 2:17 PM 133t haxor

mail: Outlook Express
dev: MS Access
surf: Netscape Navigator
web dev: Notepad
im: windows chat
game: solitare

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 4/30/2004 3:18 PM Shaun

VS.NET
Explorer
Firefox
Outlook
mIRC
MSN
United Devices
SQL Server Enterprise Manager

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 4/30/2004 6:55 PM kger

Among mine:
Pegasus Mail
Progress (RDBMS programming environment)
HyperSnap-DX (screen capture tool)

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 4/30/2004 6:56 PM kger

Oh, and CoolPlayer.

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 4/30/2004 11:21 PM Brian

Scott,

What do you use UltraEdit for since you have Visual Studio and Query Analyzer which should handle all of your programming needs.

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 5/1/2004 12:30 AM Scott Mitchell

Brian, I use UltraEdit because I think it's a killer text editor. If I need to edit an HTML page, search for a regular expression pattern in a number of files on the file system, compare two files, etc., I find UltraEdit to be far superior to Notepad and the Visual Studio IDE.

I particularly like column-selection, the hex view, the ability to color-code text files based on a number of formats (XML/HTML/JavaScript/VB/C#/Perl/etc.), the low memory usage (I can have dozens of files open and it takes up what, maybe 10MB tops), the ability to open/save files from/to an FTP site, spell checking, etc.

I use Visual Studio for code files, as VS has IntelliSense, but for the times I need to just read/update a text file, I find I am way more efficient and productive with UltraEdit.

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 5/1/2004 4:12 PM Milan Negovan

Besides instant messengers, I always run Desktop Sidbar (http://www.desktopsidebar.com) which I got addicted to. It nicely hooks to your Outlook profile and displays tasks, calendar entries, etc. The nice thing is you don't even have to run Outlook to see all this. It also displays weather from weather.com (no annoying ads), and usage of system resources so I can see which process bogs down my system.

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 5/3/2004 12:00 PM thomas woelfer

Scott,

here's my list:

- visual studio
- outlook express
- internet explorer
- windows explorer
- sharp reader
- nmap/win

and, of course, notepad.

WM_MY0.02$
thomas woelfer

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 5/4/2004 5:13 AM Stuart Radcliffe

Open 24/7 -
Outlook - even when I'm not there so that Newsgator is still collecting and I can read it using Outlook Web Access.

Normaly open -
Visual Studio
NoteTab
IE
Explorer
SQL Enterprise Mangager
Query Analyzer
And new to the list - OneNote

Open "a lot" -
SQL Profiler
MS Access
MSDN Docs
Media Player
Citrix client
Terminal Server Client

Open "sometimes" -
Visual Interdev
Visual Basic 6
Microsoft Project
Calc
Word
Excel
pcAnywhere
VNC Viewer
Netsupport Control

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 5/4/2004 5:18 AM Stuart Radcliffe

Various links here: <a href="http://keithradcliffe.me.uk/blog/archive/2004/04/16/168.aspx">The Tools I Use</a>

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 5/4/2004 11:25 AM Arcadi

Mine:

Outlook
NewsGator
MSN Messenger
Terminal Services Client
ActiveSync

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 5/12/2004 8:33 PM Timothy Lee Russell

UltraEdit is definately the best text editor ever created!!!

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 8/23/2004 7:22 PM Brian Cooper

Outlook
NewsGator!
Trillian
Visual Studio
SQL Server Enterprise Manager
SQL Query Analyzer
IE - (Sharepoint & Project Server)
And newly added - MSProject 2003
PL/SQL Developer (Work)
Spybot
<a href="http://www.frontrange.com/heat/" target="_blank">Heat</a> (Work)

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 9/6/2004 11:50 PM Warwick Barnes

- Mozilla web browser
- UltraEdit-32 text editor
- PuTTY terminal emulator
- Outlook e-mail
- ComponentSoftware Revision Control System
- SQL Server Enterprise Manager

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 9/7/2004 3:42 PM Ben

* rdesktop to a few boxes which have M$SQL QA
* kmail
* firefox
* freemind
* kate
* other opera & MSIE test-case browsers
* shell window
* gaim

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 6/17/2005 9:10 AM Anthony

-Kaspersky anti-virus
-BlackICE firewall
-XP sp2 fireall
-Adaware (the thing that stays active)
-Protowall
-Emule
-Azureus

Get the picture?

# Scott Hanselman's Recommended Tools 6/28/2005 9:58 PM Scott on Writing

# re: What Programs Do You have Running 24x7? 7/7/2005 5:22 AM Koos van der Merwe

At work:
Open all the time (even when I'm away):
Explorer (usually about 3 instances)
Daemon Tools
MSN
Gmail Notifier
Firefox (open at least with gmail and google tabs)
cmd (Command prompt)
One of: Delphi, JBuilder, C++ Builder, UltraEdit
Antivirus/Firewall McAfee

Usually open:
VMWare workstation: for testing programs on other versions of OS

At home:
2 virtual consoles (1 as root, 1 as user)
Enlightenment/KDE/Gnome/IceWM
Gaim
Skype
Opera
Konsole (3 tabs open)
xmms

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