+ to my orginial one

MSN 7.0.425
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1

Well i guess you can chuck in MS Anti Apyware now
Im used to it
and Ad Muncher, AdAware and SpyBot

let me see (my name is tweaker so i give some boost tools)

Tune up tools 2004
system mechanic 5
exeem 0.24 beta
norton 2005
msn 7
popup stopper prof 1.600.1002
firefox
winamp
games (duh)

Flurry for Windows, the best windows (or in this case, windows [seraphim] to mac [flurry] to windows [flurry for windows] port) screensaver ever.

Software that i could not live without (mostly):

Ad-Aware SE Pro
BitTornado
Daemon Tools
DAMN NFO Viewer
mIRC
Mozilla Firefox
NetLimiter
Spybot - Search And Destroy
StartupCPL
Winamp
WinRAR
Gaim
X-Fire
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe Audition
Adobe Photoshop CS
Ares Lite
AVG Anti-Virus
BSPlayer Pro
UltraEdit (for HTML)
DC++
DivX Pro
eMule
FileZilla
FlashGet
G-Force Gold (Audio Visualizer)
G-Mail Drive
ICQ Pro 2003b
KlipFolio
LimeWire Pro
Microsoft Office 2003 (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, Access, Publisher)
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
Macromedia Flash MX
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mp3Tag
MSN Messenger
MusicMatch Jukebox 10
Nero Burning ROM
Picasa (With "Hello", for blogging)
QuickTime And Real Alternative
Registry Mechanic
Sygate Personal Firewall
TweakXP
XviD

+

subrip
chatperxtracor
photoshop cs2 (plus all the lil apps)
McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7.1 + Spyware module
DVD Shrink
DVD Decrypter
DVD-lab Pro
ABBYY Finereader 7.0 Pro (OCR Software)
Sonic Record Now! Deluxe 7
Sony SoundForge

Let's see...

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The GIMP (Poor Man's Photoshop )

Trillian (Mostly for AIM...don't have a YIM or MSIM account)

Windows 2000 Pro

BitTornado

Ad-Aware and Spybot

WinMX

Zone Alarm

NotePad (for HTML and writing)

LCC-Win32 (C++ compiler)

WavePad (sound editing)

WinAmp

Windows Media Player (Version 6...no need to upgrade)

Opera Web Browser

SmartFTP

DOSbox (to run my old DOS programs)

BBlean (shell)

DiscJuggler

WinRAR
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...Probably more, but I can't think of them right now.

Firefox: Download
GTA Vice City: eBay
Microsoft FrontPage 2002: Pirate
Micrsoft Word 2002: Legal from Store
Windows Movie Maker 2: Download
MSN Messenger: Download
MSN Countdown*: Mine
PowerDVD: Came with DVD Burner
Shareaza: Download
Windows Media Player: Download
WinZip: Legal from Website
DVD Decrypter: Download
Far Cry: Legal from Store
Notepad: Free
Norton AntiVirus 2003 and Internet Security 2003 < Reinstall these to renew subscription for 3-6 months!: Came with Router
Adobe Acrobat 6 Profesional: Pirate
I have Photoshop 7, pirate, but only use it once a month.

Can't think of any more.....

*My own app, counts down in MSN Messenger.

Thought i'd add a list of current programs i use, incase anyone is looking for soloutions to certain tasks:

Web browsing : Firefox (in the form of deerpark alpha)
Documenting : Office 2003 (does presentations, great ocr, voice & handwriting recognition, the works)
Theming: Windowblinds (get a light theme, use it, and turn off the windows theme service and it actually uses up less ram than xp's standard themes!)
Chat : MSN messenger v7 and skype
Music playback : Winamp (untill Itunes or WMP supports ogg properly)
Music Management : Mediamonkey (great tagging program, syncs to most audio devices flawlesly too. A bit too bloated for music playback though)
Antivirus : AVG free edition (turn off autoprotect, update and run regularly and you've just given your system a *huge* boost)
Firewall : Sygate Personal Firewall
Bit-torrent : Azureus (java-bloated, but best features for a torrent client)
IRC : Mirc with the nonamescript installed
P2P : Emule (if there's something that's not on torrent, it *will* be on Emule)
Archiving : WinRAR (7zip is a great alternative, but the integration and file-support leaves a little to be desired, for now)
CD Burning : Nero 6
CD Emulation : Daemon-Tools (Fast, light and very capable)
Image viewing : Picasa (the built-in XP picture viewer is great, but Picasa is a little bit more easier to use)
Image editing : Photoshop CS2
Video Editing : Pinnacle Studio 9 for the quick jobs, Adobe Premier Pro for the hard stuff.
Graphics : Lightwave (not as featured as Maya, but good enough for me)
Web-design : Dreamweaver (*sucks* at table-management, but with css, which it kicks ass with, who cares?)
Utilities : FreeRAMxp Pro (double click and it cleans up your RAM)
Video-Playback: Media Player classic with all the addons (watch quicktime and real without the bloated programs)
Podcasting : Doppler Radio (the UI is a bit quirky, but its the easiest to use (Itunes could be better if it had more library support) and most streamlined Podcast manager i have used)
Eyecandy : Object Dock and a great program called HSI which lets you set boundaries anywhere on the screen (so when you maximise a window, it doesnt overlap the dock, or vice-versa)
Audio Ripping/Conversion : DbPoweramp (it's commercialized a little lately, but with directshow support, and one of the fastest rip times for cds, plus explorer tag-edit integration, it gets my vote over any alternative)

Fun : Numerous games (CSS, BF2, KOTOR, JK3:JA, GTA:SA and R:TW are worthy of mention. Also, google earth and worldwind are great toys to mess about with.

I hope that's shown members and guests a good list of programs to use, or a list of amateur-ish programs that absolutely suck (if you think so, PM me, or post here and reccomend an alternative)

**Office 2003**
Easy CD/DVD Creator 6 (not 7 or 7.5)
**True Launch Bar 3.2**
MassDownloader 3.0
WinImage 7.0
**Acrobat 7.0**
Sound Forge 8.0
WinZip and WinRar
**Microsoft Money 2006**

**Absolutely need these**

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-[Operating System]
Microsoft Windows XP-SPII
Microsoft Windows ME

-[Development]
Visual Studio .NET 2003 + MSDN 2004
Visual Studio 6.0 Enterprise
3D Studio Max R8
Macromedia Studio 8
Adobe Photoshop 7
Office XP
Setup Factory 7.0

-[Media]
JetAudio 6.2 Plus + Extension Packs
WinAmp 5.*
Codecs of course

-[WWW]
Mozilla Opera 8
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
Internet Explorer

-[File Transfer]
FlashGet
FlashGot
eMule

-[Connectivity]
MSN Messanger 7.*
mIRC
Floats Mobile Agent

-[Disc Burning/Imaging]
Ahead Nero 7.* Package
Daemon Tools
CDSpace 4.*

-[Security And Utilities]
Norton System Works 2005
SpyWare Doctor 3.2.2

-[Customization]
StyleXP 3.02
Object Dock
Object Desktop
WindowsFX
CursorXP
LClock
VisualStyles,Logons,Boots,...

-[File Packaging]
WinZIP
WinRAR
WinACE
(each for it's file type)

-[Misc.]
Adobe Reader
ACDSee
Automate 5
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of course there is a some of my unpublished own developed applications that i can't live without, but i don't think it's smart thing to post them here as thier names might interfere with another published ones
That's all i can remember, for Now

2 appz i cant work without

1. AVG Antivirus
2. Zonealarm

Kunal

Windows XP Pro SP2
Photoshop CS2
Illustrator CS2
MSN Messenger (And pretty much every plug-in)
Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2
iTunes
SmartFTP
Media Player Classic
Nero 7 Ultra
Motorola PhoneTools
MS AntiSpyware
Grisoft AVG AntiVirus
Restorer 2000 Professional
Outlook Express
DVD Shrink
Notepad
Shareaza
Microsoft Office 12 Pro

Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Service Pack 4
Visual Basic 6 Enterprise
MSN Messenger 6.2
Adobe Photoshop 7
ZSNES
Project 64
Opera 8.5
SmartFTP 1.9
Media Player Classic
Adaware SE Professional and Adwatch SE professional
Microsoft Office 97 Standard Edition Service Release 1
Microsoft Works Office 96
Corel Wordperfect 2002
Nero 6 Ultra
Limewire Pro
WinRAR 3.5 Pro
Winamp 2.8
7zip File Manager
Intervideo WinDVD
Adobe Acrobat Professional 7
Daemon Tools
Microsoft Virtual PC 2004

Let's see...

Windows 2000
Any Linux distro w/ kernel 2.6
X-Chat 2.6.0
Firefox / K-Meleon / Opera
Notepad++
Trillian
VMware Workstation 5
Winamp 5.0 / Foobar2000

Those are pretty much the only programs I use.

other than the obvious os and browsers etc, alcohol 120% and photoshop cs2

windows xp
internet explorer
outpost firewall
acronis true image
dr web
vlc media player
icq
winamp
bsp player

Acrobat Reader
FireFox
Acronis True Image Server
Acronis Disk Director
D-Tools
Nero
WinISO
IsoBuster
winrar
Windows Media Player
Stardock
DesktopX
Notepad2
OneNote
Office
BitCommit
Putty
GetRight
ACDSee
Messenger
Virtual-PC

Firefox
MS Office at home and Open Office at work
winamp
cygwin & putty
gaim
nero
Democracy player
Abexo reg cleaner
filezilla
avast
ZA
spybot
dvd shrink
winrar
vim and wget for windows (and linux at work)
truecrypt (just learned about it the other day and love it - thanks chug )
itunes for some nice inet radio
notepad
and some other stuff

the game "MapleStory"

OS: Fedora Core 5/6, Ubuntu, Knoppix and anything else Debian-ish. Windows XP Pro.

Short list of some items not mentioned in others' posts (at least that I noticed):

hamachi
Syncback
look@lan
ipcop
win2pdf

For me its
Mozilla
Google ToolBar
Winzip
Edit Plus
Java
and to recover all the data
Data recovery software

where can i get some free logic pro 8. Need it badly

Aston2! - it's a shell replacement for any Windows system starting with XP – you can use it as a whole or change your desktop by piecemeal.
I think the standard Windows desktop is too rigid and inflexible. In contrary, every element of Aston2 theme: menu, desktop, panels - can be tweaked and customized. Widgets help to know the weather forecast, system resources, make quick notes. Animation can be used for almost every element and every widget – 3D themes are adorable. I have the choice and full control of what and how it will be displayed.
Switching to Aston2 was easy because it incorporates all the things that I was already familiar with. Aston2 makes them much more efficient I’d say. Give it a try!