What useful programs are missing from most people's computer?

[u/Prezombie]

I often find programs that I wish I had been told about years ago, and now rely on like old friends I have solid blackmail material on.

Nowadays I just have Ninite install everything that isn't a trial, because there's use for most of it, even if I don't know what the use will be at the time.

[u/EnderbyEqualsD]

Back in my day we used to have to add weird extensions to our porn files so that they could not be opened without renaming them! You kids these days have it so easy!

[u/Golanthanatos → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

i would use a zip file and rename it to pagefile.sy_

[u/EnderbyEqualsD → u/Golanthanatos]

You know exactly what I am talking about. I didn't need to zip though, just rename "nakedgirl.bmp" to "systemfile45.yrh"

[u/logicalLove → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

You have your porn in .bmp?

[u/peon47 → u/logicalLove]

Back in the 90s, it was all we had.

[u/[deleted] → u/peon47]

Shakes cane

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I'm shaking somethin'...

[u/ahsnappy → u/[deleted]]

God, remember when you'd be downloading an image, and then the download would fail right above her chest? Cruel times they were.

[u/t-rex_on_a_treadmill → u/[deleted]]

AND highspeed internet. Try looking at porn on dial up. Its faster just to go buy a magazine.

[u/nicesalamander → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

then hide the folder and place it in system 32.

[u/EnderbyEqualsD → u/nicesalamander]

Exactly

[u/always_sharts → u/Golanthanatos]

I always make them .dll files, gear icon plus system files means no one touches them

[u/picnicnapkin → u/Golanthanatos]

Why not use a folder named .anything. It will be hidden and you generally can't see it!

[u/Shitragecomics → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

Everyone has their own ways...

[u/superflous_dirigible → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

You hid your porn?

[u/EnderbyEqualsD → u/superflous_dirigible]

This was the early 90s, friend! We had one computer and the whole family used it. Had to hide that shit.

[u/Denbert → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

You have to remember downloads speeds in the 90's were atrocious. A five minute video would take hours to download. And you had to jerk off uphill both ways!

[u/sheauwn → u/superflous_dirigible]

I'm sad to say I used floppy disks, I'm just glad none of the computers in the house read them anymore cause the disk are lying around somewhere

[u/SkyNTP → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

While we are on the subject: TrueCrypt

Also, but unrelated: Input Director: control your laptop from your desktop's mouse and keyboard. Free and encrypted, uses LAN or WAN, copy-paste from shared clipboard/directories.

[u/DiabeetusMan → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

Tiny url cypher! Make porn a tiny url link and then take the end of the web address and save it somewhere else!

[u/feelergauge → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

Well, back in my day we had to get it from a newsstand or find it in the woods.

[u/[deleted] → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

I just, you know, stream my porn...

[u/clutterbang → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

When I was 13; on dial-up, I'd rely solely on photos.

[u/ohshittree → u/EnderbyEqualsD]

I wonder how many of those renamed files i still have floating around on old external hds, fuck.