Essential Windows 10 programs.

Subaru MotorSports wrote:
I installed myself: free antivirus Avast
OMG, go out. Under no circumstances should these lamer errors be taken as a recommended installation guide.
It's better to sit without an antivirus and be checked on demand and once a week while actively surfing using Dr.Web CureIt.
And it would be more correct to stay with the default Defender at all, especially if there is no way to purchase a full-fledged license. Defender holds the leading position among antiviruses in terms of reliability.
Such free rubbish as avast, which can only help to establish a trash can of the amigo type and recognize a pill from a crack as much as possible, will never change the built-in defender antivirus.


I would recommend:
For viewing photos: Picasa from google, which unfortunately officially stopped being supported and developed, but it works tolerably, many times better than the built-in program.

Browser selection is a highly individual and subjective issue. So it seems that the new microsoft edge is not as slow as IE. But nevertheless, I would choose from: Opera, mazila, chrome.

Well, ccleaner for cleaning the system and fixing registries.
Well, Deffrager from the same developers, in order to occasionally defragment the HDD.

The rest depends only on your own needs.
A text editor is natural for convenience and out of habit, I would install MS office, but if there is no frequent and large work with doc files, you can alternatively get by with a free cloud editor "documents" from google in the browser.

Audio and video codecs are preinstalled in Windows itself, if there is no need to work with a large number of video files in different formats, then the installation of the K-Lite Codec Pack is not necessary at all.