What to put on a new computer

Not 150 tweakers. Five apps a new laptop still needs on day one. The rest depends on the job.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook as an offline Pro Plus set.

RAR5, recovery records and split volumes in a few megabytes.

Retouch, composites and Camera Raw in a full Pro installer, not a seven-day trial.

Sensors, stress and a hardware dump before you buy RAM or a cooler.

Batch driver refresh for a dusty Windows box — read the card before stacking antivirus.