Your 5 "Mandatory" pieces of Software

Absolutely Mandatory:
Firefox
AIM
Office 2003 Professional (Outlook, Word, Powerpoint, Excel)
AVG
WinRAR

Honorable Mentions (But still very mandatory IMO):
Cygwin
foobar2000
FlashFXP
Nero Burning ROM
Adobe Photoshop CS
Adaware
VMware
mIRC
 
Here is what I use.

AVG - anti virus
Spybot - spyware tool
Maxthon - addon to IE
Winrar
Nero
 
1: Winamp 2.x
2: Nero
3: My Logitech iTouch/mouseware software (minimize, maximize, back/forward, scroll down, *F5*); (volume, scroll, winamp, ABC, trillian shortcuts)
4: trillian
5: damn. um...ABC? iTunes? Alc 120%? Lots of peripheral programs...
 
1). Real Player
2). Quicktime
3). AOL IM
4). Acrobat Reader
5). Microsoft Messanger

Honorable Mention: Yahoo toolbar, Gator Searchbar, Anything Gator for that matter, and Windows Me.


:rolleyes:
 
I just listed the programs that I use most on my home systems. I can deal without them, but I wouldn't want to.

Workstation
1) Firefox
2) Outlook 2003
3) Winamp 5x
4) Irfanview
5) Symantec Corp. Antivirus Client

Server
1) Exchange 2003
2) Symantec Antivirus for exchange
3) Exchange intellegent spam filter
4) Symantec Corp. Antivirus Server
5) DNS2Go

Laptop
1) Everything listed on workstation
2) Netstumbler
3) Speedfan
4) SpeedSwitchXP
5) Nero Virtual Drive

Linux box
1) Fedora Core 3 and thats all
 
sophos anti virus (custom install)
microsoft anti spyware beta
itunes
Aol Instant Messanger
google toolbar (internet explorer)
 
1) Office 2003
2) Photoshop CS
3) Aim w/DeadAIM
4) Nero
5) VMware

Honorable Mention:
FireFox. I don't see it as "Mandatory" but it IS one of the first things I get after a Re-Format.
Daemon Tools
RealVNC
Max 7
Any Fun Game at the Time.
 
In no peticular order...

Synergy
RealVNC
AVG Anti-Virus
Ad-Aware SE
Firefox

Honorable mentions
Microsoft Anti-Spyware
Spybot S&D
Nero
Winamp
Windows Blinds
Folding @ Home
 
F@H - Duh...
7Zip - I noticed a lot of people saying winrar and winzip. This does both formats, is open source, and is free. Winrar and Winzip are not.
Notepad2 - I like Textpad, I don't want to pay for Textpad, though.
Putty - SSH, SFTP... Been a long time since I've used an unsecure telnet.
Daemontools - Everyone needs CD imaging

 
1) Firefox
2) Photoshop
3) AVG
4) Ad-Aware
5) Zone Alarm

also must-haves...
spybot S&D
iTunes
atitool
 
Under Windows, in no particular order:
  • Vern -- virtual desktops
  • StrokeIt -- ubiquitous mouse gestures
  • Firefox -- obvious
  • foobar -- audio player for those who are sick of audio players
  • Cygwin -- can't live without a decent command line

Honorable mention:
  • PuTTY -- tiny SSH client, more convenient than Cygwin's cmdline client
  • Beyond Compare -- amazing directory and file diff software
  • Vim -- the one true text editor (can be installed with Cygwin, or it'd be in the above list ;))
  • Process Explorer -- a better Task Manager
  • Inkscape -- is to Illustrator as Gimp is to Photoshop, only better
  • X-Setup -- X-focus and so much more

There are others -- Trillian, Apache, ZoneAlarm, AudioMulch, Photoshop -- but these are some of the basic must-haves for me.
 
I forgot about Power Archiver V6 I does all formats...and it's the last version that was free...
 
No Particular Order:

WinRAR
Alcohol 120%
Office XP Professional (Or Newer)
Trillian
Adobe Photoshop CS (Or Newer)


There are many others that I don't necessarily deem as critical, but fill a much needed niche in my collection.
 
1. Firefox
2. Terra Term Pro - Like it tons more than Hyperterminal
3. Visio
4. Nmap
5. Putty
 
-Top 5-
AntiVir
X-Fire
Cute FTP
Dream Weaver
Photoshop

- HM -
Sygate
ICQ
AIM
WinBar
Skype
MBM5
Nero
Winrar
Dameon Tools
Media Player Classic
VLC
SB-S&D
Adaware
Spyware Blaster
 
1: Microsoft Office XP Professional
2: Opera
3: Norton System Works
4: ZoneAlarm
5: Perfect Disk 7
 
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