Hey,

I just wanted to check out what GREAT programs everyone is using. I know I have my personal must-install programs, so what are everyone elses?

WinRar

Trillian

Alcohol 120%

Nero

Spybot

iTunes

NetLimiter

mIRC

Those are the ones I use most often.

Anyone else?

PopTray

Hex Workshop

Creative Recorder

WS_FTP Pro

Beyond Compare 2

Resource Hacker

Tracks Eraser Pro

ABBYY FineReader

Dreamweaver MX 2004

Plus some of the ones you mentioned. I can't really be productive without them.

Acronis TrueImage 7.0

FileZilla

UltraEdit

DreamweaverMX

Thunderbird

Opera

Mozilla Firefox

CloneCD

Nero

Winamp 2.91 lite

MediaPlayerAlternative (for RealPlayer/Quicktime)

K-Lite ++ CodecsPack

WinRAR

VMWare

XP Antisp

TweakUI

F-Prot

Sygate Personal

There are more appz around that i really like and do install but i think this are the most important for me...

Kaspersky AV

Sygate Firewall (Personal or Pro)

Google toolbar

WinRAR

Nero Burning Rom

Eraser

EasyCleaner2.0

MBSA

SpywareBlaster

SpywareGuard

SpyBot S&D

All good stuff...

direct connect

kazaa lite

real audio to wave converter

various office apps

return to castle wolfenstein

unreal-various versions

system mechanic

isobuster

diskkeeper

furthurnet-legal live music sharing

shn to mp3 converter due to above

ad-aware

Style XP 2

Object Dock

Photoshop

CodeStuff Starter

PopUp XP

Window Washer

Ultra VNC

Winamp

SPybot (ofcourse)

Winrar (ofcourse)

AdminPak.msi (for the office)

WinWhatWHere

For me...

Powertoys for XP:

• TweakUI
  
• CmdHere
  
• Taskswitch
  

AvantBrowser

Google Toolbar

Office2K3:

• Word
  
• Excel
  
• Outlook
  

Alcohol120%

Nero 6.x

Photoshop CS

Acrobat 6.0 Pro

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX

TopStyle Pro

For me:

River Past Video Cleaner

Dreamwaver MX

Photoshop

Acrobat Pro 6

Nero

Winamp 2x

Herosoft 20001

Window Media 9

WinDVD

CD menu builder

.....

Programs

• PowerDVD
  
• Alcohol 120%
  
• Nero
  
• Acrobat Reader
  
• PhotoShop
  
• Winamp
  
• Opera
  
• Norton Corp AntiVirus
  
• DVD Shrink
  
• MS Office
  
• Team Speak
  
• Trillian
  
• Shareaza
  
• Notmad Manager
  
• FlashFXP
  

Games

• Battlefield
  • Desert Combat
    
  • Vietnam
    

  [*]Unreal 2004

  [*]Colin Mcrae Rally 4

  [*]Toca Race Driver 2

These are what I install immediaetly when i setup Windows. (either silent or loud )

There are many more that I install when needed...

These excellent applications and tweaks:

ffdshow-20040319

klmcodec101

Azureus

Miranda

Nero 6

Norton Ghost 2003

Xitami

vnc

WinRAR

winamp 2

TClock 2.2.9

sysmetrix

whereisit

Paint shop pro 7

O&0 Defrag

no-ip

Daemon Tools

Adaware & spybot

and of course XPAntiSpy if you run WinXP

I'm sure I've forgotten a few.

trillian

winrar

nero

8rdavcore

cpuidle

opera

wmp10

winamp5

spybot

adaware

mirc

dh-shutdown

driver cleaner 3

diskeeper

bittorrent

alcohol 120%

go supernova (nifty prog for torrent users google it and try it)

Spybot S&D

Ad-Aware Pro 6

Win RAR

Tweak UI

Office 2k3

Nero 5 (latest version)

MS or Connectix VPC

VMware

ISOBuster

ISORecorder powertoy

Watercolor Lite 2.11 Desktop Theme

Mozilla Firefox

Trend Micro PC-Cillin Internet Security 2004

mIRC

Trillian

Smart FTP

Glass 2k (makes windows transparent)

Knoppix. It's the only thing you'll need when you break Windows by installing all of that software.

And, it's free!

http://www.knoppix.net/

Vegas 5 with network rendering...

Pfff.

NERO

Winamp

Winrar

Winace

Winzip

K-lite k++ (no spam, no addware)

Sygate PF

Installshield adminstudio 5.5

Ad aware (need a good substitute)

Google bar (need a good substitute)

MSN

Some games

Enemy Territory

UT2004

Age of Mythology

Game extra's

Etmin

Pathfinder

Teamspeak