With this generation's fast innovating digital evolution, it is a must to keep up with the pace of technology trends. From this point of view, you are engaged into installing softwares that would aid you with your daily activities.

 
For example, you download angry birds on your desktop to spend your leisure time with. You download Photoshop with the idea of helping your friend's face look more friendly in photos. And you download Sticky notepad to keep you posted with your class schedule.

But I guess it's time for you to download softwares that your PC really need. And here's my list of the Top 5 Software-Must-Haves for your computer.


 1. Anti-Virus Software
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First rule of conduct, always leave your things secured. So as to computers. And the role of these anti-virus software is to clean your computer from downloaded or installed probable sources of viruses, malwares, and spywares that might eventually harm your system or personal files and even destroy it. 
 











I suggest you get Kaspersky 2012 anti-virus software if you are willing to spend money to prevent your system from hijacks done by viruses. In case you are in search for invaluable free anti-virus software, it would be a good choice to download Avast Antivirus.

Now question, what's the difference between the two?.. .Money.

2. Office Applications

I know you don't want to leave your computer for gaming purposes only. Your computer will be more efficient if paired with office applications like word processors, spreadsheets, and publications to produce hard and soft copies of your paper work.

 Again giving you option to pay for office applications, Microsoft Office Applications are out in the market for your home and office consumption. But if you don't have the bucks to buy those copyrighted office applications, you could download Open Office Applications right in your fingertips.


 
3. VLC Media Player

 

Do you already have a media player? If not, then here's for you!

Well, basically this software plays all types of movie and audio files found existing in this universe today. From your Windows Media files, Quicktime, and even iTunes files, it could all be played in this all in one player. VLC Media Player dominates all the other media players in the world. 




4. Internet Browser

As of the latest statistics based on www.internetworldstats.com, there are about 2,267,233,742 estimated internet users around the world as of December 31, 2011 and is of course expected to grow exponentially in the following years.

 
Being among the computer users would suggest you to connect to the World Wide Web. Connecting to the world means being updated to technology trends. And for this reason, browsers were created. There are five browsers you might want to try out.

      1. Safari – intended for Mac users
      2. Google Chrome – created byTeam Google
      3. Opera – developed by Opera Software
      4. Mozilla Firefox – open source browser
      5. Internet Explorer – product browser of Microsoft
I'm not being bias but I suggest you to download Google Chrome because Chrome incorporates machine translation in the browser itself without requiring plugins or extensions.

5. Flash Player

Ever heard of youtube? Yes, that's right, the famous video streaming website. And whether you love streaming through videos or not , for sure you will still browse for videos, and to do so, Adobe Flash Player is a pre-requisite. But no worry, this software is out for free.

And besides, Game of Nerds also requires Flash Player, so just deal with my list.. . :-D


So that's my Top 5 Software-Must-Haves. You might want to add few softwares but I guess this five on the list best suits to begin with.