These are the ones I install first:

1. Winrar.exe (used to uncompress the rest)

2. AVG free anti-virus

3. Sygate firewall

4. Codestuff Starter (to control all the unneeded startup programs)

5. Registrar lite (to make all those necessary tweaks and remove all the uninstall leftovers) B)

6. Foxit PDF reader (Acrobat too bloated)

7. Nero (bloated but still best)

8. Foobar 2000 (for tunes)

9. Mpc (for videos)

10. The Clock (my desktop wouldn't be complete without it)

...and all but two are free (but I still need another 20 installed before I am happy)

Edited December 11, 200520 yr by farangcm

1/ Unofficial Service Pack2.02 (for w98) and Safe Xp (for Xp)

2/ This is a selection of the folders in my "program files" (not a 1 to 10 rating). Almost all are freeware and work perfectly. * = Payware or Payservicewares that I remember of.

1by1

SlowView (Brennigs)

ScanSoft Omnipage OCR

WinZip (w98)

Nero

Yahoo!Messenger (maybe msn messenger too)

BadCopy *

CodeStuffStarter

ffdshow

PCPhone *

Clickatell Messenger-PRO 3 *

DivX5.11 or 5.2

AviUtl

VirtualDub

hilaunch

Audacity

QuadSucker

Microsoft Office XP *

WildRename

CDex_150

SequoiaView

PhotoFiltre

AntiVirPers

BSPlayer

Total Uninstall

IrfanView

DBXtract

RegSeeker

Wall Street Analyzer

IconArt

Download Express

GSpot

Foxit

Maxthon

Xplorer2_lite

NotepadPP

Spybot

Lavasoft Adaware

Iconize

Contextedit

DVD Shrink

3/ see my signature

Sorry to be slightly over 10... but I realy can't make a rating since they are all great!

MS Office

Nero

UltraISO

BitComet

eMule

Quintessential Media Player

VLC

Firefox

nLite

WinRAR

Ad-Aware

VMware

PerfectDisk

3DMark

Foxit PDF Reader

Daemon Tools

ExamDiff

+Some browser plugins, codecs, .NET Fw and more...

Have you people noticed when this thread was first started?!

(Take a look at the first post to find out, and yet the thread is only four pages!)

1. Media Player Classic

2. Mozilla Firefox

3. Mozilla Thunderbird

4. ICQ 2003b Pro

5. X-Chat

6. 7-Zip

7. Internet Download Manager

8. Foobar 2k

9. Azureus

10. PaintShop Pro

... and much more...

MS Office + SpamBayes

Macromedia Studio MX (mostly just for Fireworks)

TopStyle (www.bradsoft.com)

Opera

Symantec Client Security (Anti-Virus + Firewall)

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Diskeeper

7-zip

PGP

GAIM

Ad-Aware Pro

Sun Java

Nero

Python

Vim

VMWare

CCleaner

Google Desktop

BitTorrent

WinDVD

Foobar2000

FLAC Installer

DaemonTools

DVD Decryptor

DVD Shrink

IrFanview

Tiny Games:

X-Com/UFO: Enemy Unkown

GNU Chess

1. Microsoft Office '12' (beta)
   
2. IE 7 (beta)
   
3. Nero Burning Rom - 7
   
4. WinRar
   
5. Adobe Reader
   
6. McAfee Antivirus
   
7. Adobe Photoshop CS
   
8. JV 16 Powertool
   
9. CC Cleaner
   
10. Winamp 5
    

1.Microsoft Windows Xp(because its needed to run most of the ones below)

1.Internet explorer(because its needed to run most of the ones below)

2.Windows Live Messenger

3.Limewire

4.Windows Live Mail

5.Windows live Safty Center

6.Dell Photo Editor

7.Microsoft Word

8.McAffee

9.Ms Antispy

10.Zonealarm firewall

1/ Winrar

2/ Sygate Firewall

3/ AVG Free

4/ PicaView 2 (not supported by SP2)

5/ AdAware

6/SpyBot

7/AcDSee 5

8/ Nero 6

9/ CDex 1.51

10/ iTunes (for the wife. I cant stand iPods)

1. Nlite

2. Winamp 5.12 Lite

3. µTorrent

4. Opera

5. Vmware

6. Daemon Tools

7. WinRAR

8. FoxIt PDF Reader

9. Photoshop CS2

10. Visual Studio.Net

Edited December 26, 200520 yr by ScubaSteve

Win 98SE

Opera 8.51 (others be damned)

System Mechanic Pro 6.0q (cannot live without)

VotpXP Defrag

Spybot search and destroy

Magic Utilities 2006 (process killer, uninstaller, startup manager)

Trend Micro Office scan AV (free licence from ISP)

Nero 6.something (need backups)

Hook 99 (taskbar, desktop shortcuts and start button modifier)

BSPlayer

Xing mpeg player

ACDsee

Internet Download Manager

Winzip/Winrar

Acrobat reader/Microsoft reader/Isilo reader (I read a lot )

Last, but not the least, hoover.bat !!

1. WinRAR

2. Firefox (and extensions)

3. MS Antispyware

4. MSN Messenger (and msg plus along with msg discoveryx2)

5. Alcohol 120%

6. Winamp

7. Free Download Manager

heh..that's actually all i really need...

1 - VideoLAN

2 - CCleaner

3 - Firefox

4 - Miranda

5 - FlashFXP

6 - Ad-aware

7 - Spybot Search and Destroy

8 - Winrar

9 - nLite

10 - nLite (Its that good!)

Not by that order, necessarily!

Edited December 29, 200520 yr by Gouki

1) nLite

2) Mozilla Firefox 1.5 + extensions

3) Alarm Clock

4) Windows Media Player 9

5) CdBurnerXP Pro 3

6) Rainlendar

7) Google Desktop 2

8) Media Player Classic

9) Visual Studio .NET 2003

10) Microsoft Office 2003

Here is my list

1) Irfanview

2) Winrar

3) MS Office

4) Foxit Reader

5) Divx Bundle (Player+Codec)

6) Crystal Player Pro

7) ChrisTV Pro

8) Ccleaner

10) X-Setup Pro

11) Symantec Antivirus

12) Real Player (Forced to install since it is needed to play a lot of streaming media)

i only install a few programs

1. CCleaner

2. Daemon Tools 3.47

4. WinRAR

Everything else is portable/standalone meaning i use other software but i dont actually have to install it Including:

Portable FileZilla

Portable Firefox

Portable Gaim

Portable OpenOffice

µTorrent

AntRenamer2

FoxitReader

HydraIRC

MPUI

NeoShooter

XMPlay

etc

+ All my games dont need to be "installed" in order to work:

UT2004, CIV4, Neverwinter Nights, SimCity 4

Edited February 25, 200620 yr by DigeratiPrime