[pcd2k]

I recently installed a couple of free helper programs to my system to make using the system beneficial for my interface with it ......and well I've forgotten even what they were called. Consequently I thought there must be some way of viewing all of my recently downloaded appplications in the OS X Finder and at least being able to ascertain as to whether they are already or not yet properly installed.

I thought such information may have been found at the Knowledge Base. no such joy ?

[gorickey]

Have you checked your default browser "Download Window/Manager" to see what they were?

[cpac]

Originally posted by pcd2k:
I recently installed a couple of free helper programs to my system to make using the system beneficial for my interface with it ......and well I've forgotten even what they were called. Consequently I thought there must be some way of viewing all of my recently downloaded appplications in the OS X Finder and at least being able to ascertain as to whether they are already or not yet properly installed.

I thought such information may have been found at the Knowledge Base. no such joy ?

knowledge base is an online help-system - it knows nothing about your particular computer or set up.

sometimes it's best to just try to remember whether you installed a certain program or not. You usually have to do some active installing to make it happen (i.e. just downloading the thing in your browser isn't enough).

You *can* open up the Apple System Profiler to see a list of all the currently installed applications, though I'm not sure it'll give you install dates or anything like that.

[GORDYmac]

Use the Find feature in the Finder to search for all files containing ".app". Sort the resulting list by creation date, descending.