What are your 'must have' pieces of software?

[Flare]

As above really. Just had to format my HDD and reinstall windows and was wondering about software you all 'must have', so what are they? Not including the obvious ones such as office and all that.

Flare

 

[bigjonnyauk]

for me its

anti vir
spyware blaster
firefox
msn
shark 007 codec pack
img burn

 

[Greenlizard0]

Winamp, VLC, MPC (+HC 64), Opera, 7 Zip.

 

[Locke]

FF, MSN, VLC, ConvertxtoDVD, Steam, Fraps....

 

[GeForce]

Firefox
Avast
Audacity
Imgburn
Foxit
VLC/ffdshow
PuTTY
Hamachi
Spotify
Notepad++
Photoshop CS2

 

[MikeHunt79]

Autohotkey

 

[Flare]

Thanks for the responses guys, im gonna have to have a gander at some of these

 

[eXor]

7-Zip
Avira
FileZilla
Firefox
Media Player Classic - Home Cinema
Notepad++
Open Office
PuTTY
QuickPar
Thunderbird

 

[Locke]

Notepad ++, Filezilla.. good mentions.

 

[JC]

Firefox
Keepass(x)
Virtualbox
Truecrypt
Rainlendar2
Skype
Rythmbox (linux) Foobar2000 (windows)

oh and DropBox!

 

[whitecrook]

Free:
cygwin ssh server
7zip
imgburn
vim / gvim
notepad++
opera
MPC, CCCP, VLC
damn nfo viewer
foobar2000
VNC
putty
unixutils
ifranview
imagemagick
wget.exe
utorrent


Pay for:
win rar
winamp
digiguide

 

[miniyazz]

Adobe Reader
DVD Decrypter
DVD Ripper Ultimate (pay)
Fileshredder
GmailInstaller
iMacros
SpeedFan
Kaspersky Internet Security (pay)
MiniXP
Microsoft Office 2007 (pay)
RivaTuner
TreeSize Pro Demo
VLC
Winamp
WinRAR

Then if it's my desktop, CoreTemp, CPU-Z, Prime95

 

[whitecrook]

yeah dvd shrink and dvd decrypter. They're good and free.

Also, TweakUI and the sysinternals tool kit (procexp / procmon)
Command prompt here:
Copy path http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/13986.html <<< MUST HAVE!!

 

[Ratbag]

Opera
Admuncher
Comodo Firewall
Winpatrol

 

[hp7909]

KAV, CCleaner, Firefox, Vista Codec Package, WinRAR, ImgBurn, SpeedFan, Winamp, DVDFab HD Decrypter, VLC, Adobe Reader 9

 

[Matteysan]

Winamp, Last.fm, VLC, MSN, Skype, Chrome, Utorrent, WinRAR, Avira anti virus & TightVNC

 

[ste-sim2x9]

ESET Smart Security [pay]
firefox
msn
shark 007 codec pack
img burn
nero [pay]
TMPGEnc 4.0 XPres [pay]
ConvertXtoDvd [pay]
utorrent

 

[Kezmo]

Firefox
MSN
CCleaner
Steam

 

[4T5]

Avast
Ccleaner
Ad Aware
SuperAntiSpyware
MSN
Firefox
BF2

 

[grudas]

NOD32
Opera
Skype
Steam