What are your "must have" programs?

Ccleaner
Winrar
Windows Live Essentials
Acronis Trueimage
Paragon Hard Disk Manager
Firefox
Sandboxie
Perfectdisk
K-Lite Codec Pack

 

Some of them, depending on the OS:
LibreOffice
Okular/Evince/Sumatra
Ark/Peazip/Xarchiver/7-Zip
VLC/SMPlayer
Kate/Vim/Notepad++
Miro
WSCC on Windows

 

Thanks for that!

 

MSE,SuperAntiSpyware free version,Java,Flash,Catalyst Control Suite,SumatraPDF,Windows Live Messenger 2011,Sysinternals Suite,Firefox-NoScript-DuckDuckGo Search Engine,CCleaner, and Erunt.

 

Comodo FW/D+
Sandboxie
ShadowProtect Desktop
OpenVPN
TrueCrypt
CCleaner
OpenOffice

 

Did I forget to mention SeaMonkey?

 

I also use:

For playing videos:
SMPlayer - plays most videos without the need for extra codecs. After trying a number of different media players I have found this to be the best one for me.

For the times when I do need codecs to decode videos I install K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. There a several alternatives to this, but I stick with K-Lite because it works well and clearly a lot of time and effort has been put into making this.


Driver updates:
DriverHound
Advanced Driver Updater
Drive The Life

Disk cleanup:
Quick Heal PCTuner - this is a paid program from the makers of Quick Heal anti-virus. It does a good (but slow) job of doing disk cleanups, and also includes a registry cleaner (something that's generally not needed - but at least this one does not remove any needed registry entries which is very rare indeed). What I really like about it, is that the disk and privacy cleaners are separate - which suits me as I like to do occasional disk cleanups but never want to clean any usage/history data. Of course most cleaners do both at once and you have to go through and deselect the privacy cleaning options.

Diagnostics:
BlueScreenView - this is an invaluable tool which analyzes the crash dumps Windows generates when you got a blue screen of death (BSOD). For example I was fixing a computer this morning when I got a BSOD. White the actual BSOD screen gave me no useful information, BlueScreenView was able to list the drivers which could have caused the crash. There were a couple of drivers from Spyware Doctor running - even though it had been uninstalled many months ago. I deleted these files, and hopefully no more blue screens.

 

Avast/panda cloud
Mozilla/chrome
Priform products
flash,java
Mbam , HMP , EEK , NPE , autoruns
paint.net , gimp , faststone image viewer
aimp , mp3tag , audacity
ashampoo burning studio free , daemon tools
Quicktime , potplayer , vlc
pdfxchange , libreoffice
filehippo update checker , sumo
feeddemon , 7zip , drivereasy , teamviewer , teracopy , revo , vmware player
auslogics disk defrag and registry cleaner

ALL FREE !

 

Install OS while unconnected..
Shadow Protect.. Image 1

Sandboxie
AV

Connect to internet..
Windows updates.
Shadow Protect Image 2

Install everything else
Another image.

 

My "must have" programs. Can't do without them

 

locknote.exe

 

Since I am still with XP,... FD-ISR

 

My security setup may change from time to time but,
Shadow Defender and Macrium Reflect have a permanent place here.

 

Must have it is, then I say....

ESET (or other).
Safari.
Ccleaner.

 

i like trayradio for linux, you can configure it to use any online station. i listen it to while i troll truthers on youtube.

http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/

 

Avira 12 Home Premium
PCAV
WOT
Windows firewall
WindowsImaging

 

Not a must have but I am very happy my ISP gave me last Friday a free Premium Spotify account.

 

Must Have Programs :
Klite media codec pack
Gimp
open office suite
SUMo Lite
secunia
MBAM , SAS ,HMP
Hijackthis
sandboxie
virtual Box
with other security setups

 

Hope you don't mind the question, but are you using an application launcher to run those apps, or is a theme?

-edit-

I suppose it's a theme, because I noticed you got Appetizer, which is an app launcher.

-end of edit-

Now, back on the topic itself, I consider that my two "must have" applications are the Chromium web browser and PowerShell, which is already part of Windows 7.

Of course, I make use of other useful apps, but nothing that can't be easily replaced with alternatives as good or better than them.

 

No, it's Appetizer with Dark Glass skin from their site and some changes in the "Appearance" settings. I was trying it out because i got a little bored with the launcher i currently have (StandaloneStack). It may be very basic but i like it

 

Productivity: MSOffice, LibreOffice
Web: Chrome, Opera, FF
Data/encryption: Peazip, 7-Zip, TrueCrypt
Multimedia: VLC, FastStone
Security: Security Essentials, SpybotS&D, MalwareBytes
Other: MinGW, HDD HexEditor, VMWare Player

 

Shadow Defender
Shadow Protect
Online Armor
Appguard
NOD 32
Firefox with no script, and adblock plus.

 

Rollback rx
CCleaner
Hitman Pro
IDM
Kingsoft office
LooknStop
Winrar
Klite
Tuneup Utilities

 

No problems with Tuneup Utilities?

 

for 5 years ive been using Tuneup utilities without any problem..