Post your essential software selection :-)

[Pawnless Endgame]

I've got a 2k SP4 box and an XP SP3 box, my lists are pretty much the same for each:

Web
- Firefox 3.5
- Adobe Flash Player 10 (for Firefox)
- MSIE 5.5 (I hate MSIE 6 and above)
- Soul Seek
- Team Speak.. a bit like Skype
- Google Mail.. online or Thunderbird

Video
- Power DVD
- K Lite Codec Pack
- Media Player Classic
- G Spot

Shell / Customisation
- E Icons
- Microangelo
- Rei's More Extensions
- Resource Hacker

Productivity
- Office 97.. yeah I'm a luddite

Graphics
- Paintshop Pro 7.. PSP8+ was rubbish, plus I don't do Adobe (poor eyesight)
- GIMP
- Ifranview

Sound
- Winamp 3.5
- Mixmeister
- Monkey's Audio
- Sound Forge 4.5
- Mpeg Suite

Tools
- Avira Antivir
- Power Archiver
- 7 Zip
- Nero Burning ROM
- Fox It Reader.. why-oh-why need Adobe Acrobat (200MB+) just to open PDF's?
- Ccleaner
- Speed Fan
- Auslogics Defragger

- And just a one-off, DMX Wizard. My lighting control software

Let's see yours

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Nice list Simian. We overlap a fair bit

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Hi Kona (btw, are you from Hawaii? Kona = Hawaiian name and I'm nuts about Hawaii!)

Anyway, yeah I know that IE5.5 is getting on now but I am largely a Firefox nut anyway. When I do my web design, I make sure that my pages will read okay on the older browser. I just never liked IE 6, 7 or 8. I liked IE 4 and 5 because of the changes and integration it put into Windows (most people hated that though), but I never use IE as an online browser. Leave the online to FF 3.5.

As for Fox It and the forcing of their Ask toolbar, I just use the portable version. Just run it off a stick regardless of computer.