opera (all net-related stuff) + explorer2lite (ftp) + winamp & mpc

W98se Unofficial Service Pack 2.01

ContextEdit

Sequoia

RegSeeker

CodeStuffStartUp

ffdshow

DivX5.2

CDex

Foxit

IrfanView

SlowView (not avalable anymore)

Maxthon

1By1 (or OneByOne)

Notepad++

Metapad

FastStone Player (and all FastStone softwares)

Zorro

Xplorer2 lite

Photo Filtre

Wild Rename

AntiVir

Audacity

AviUtl

Virtual Dub

DVD shrink

...

But the best of the best is the Dingue Calculator/Unit convertor (calc.exe replacement) that I wrote myself , see my signature.

Fav bit of software is PicaView 2.0

Dont know if it works with XPsp2 tho.

[deXter] has got a super super post.

Operating System: XP Pro SP1 | Fedora Core 3

Instant Messaging: MSN | Gaim

IRC: mIRC | Xchat

IM Enhacements: Messenger Plus!

RSS Aggregator: Firefox

Web Server: Apache

FTP Server: Bulletproof FTP Server | VSFTPD

Web Browser: Firefox

Ad-Blocker: Adblock extension for Firefox

E-Mail: Thunderbird

P2P: Bitcomet | Azureus

FTP: FlashFXP

Anti-Spyware: Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE, HijackThis, Mcafee spyware engine for mcafee enterprise 8.0i

Anti-Virus: Mcafee Enterprise 8.0i

Imaging: Photoshop

Word Processing: Notepad2 | Gedit

PDF Reader: Adobe Acrobat

Database: MySQL

Hex Editing: Hex Workshop

Resource Editor: Resource Hacker

Scripting & Automation: Batch Files

Web Development: Frontpage, Notepad2, Dreamweaver

HTML Source Viewing: Notepad2

Defrag: Diskeeper

Compression: 7-zip, WinRAR

Boot-CD: BCDW, EasyBoot, PeBuilder

CD Cloning: Alcohol 120%

CD Recovery: IsoBuster

Virtual Drive: Alcohol 120%

CD/DVD Burning: Nero Burning Rom, DVD-Decrypter, Alcohol 120%

Audio Player: Winamp

Audio Capture: Total Recorder

Movie Player: NeroVision

Skinning: StyleXP, Samurize, Aquadock

Password/System Auditing: Cain

Traceroute: NeoTrace Pro

Notepad Replacement: Notepad2

Virtual Machine: VMware Workstation

DOS Emulator: DosBOX

Process Viewer: Sysinternals Process Explorer

Diagnostics: Everest Home Edition

Games: Diablo II LOD

OS: XP Pro English SP2

Browser: Firefox

Firewall/Anti-Virus: Norman Anti Virus Sandbox

Compression: WinRAR 3.42

Media: WinAmp (audio) Media Player Classic (for heavy or wicked extensions) WMP10

E-mail: Gmail

Office: Word 2000

CD-DVD Burning: Nero 6.6.0.13

Bittorrent: Azureus

Text Editor: Notepad2

Disk Cleaner: CCleaner

Anti Spyware: Hitman Pro (lots of anti spyware in 1)

Games: Only Warcraft,

Imaging: Photoshop 7.0

I would write Wikipedia as a Encyclopedia but it is not a software.

So would go for other topics.

Browser:Mozilla Firefox

Mail Client:Mozilla Thunderbird

Anti-Virus:Kasperski AV Personal

Firewall:Outpost Pro

Download Manager:Internet Download Manager (IDM)

IM:QIP, Skype

IRC:X-Chat

FTP Client:TurboFTP

P2P:Turbo Torrent, eMule Plus

Archiver:PowerArchiver

Image viewer:IrfanView

Image Editor:PaintShop Pro

Media Player:Media Player Classic

Audio Player:Winamp Lite

Text Editor:Notepad2

Cleaner:CCleaner

CD Burner:CDBurnerXP Pro

Nice idea of posting links to the manufactures site, but must be time consumming.