What is your mix of software for your PC?

[IronMentality]

Alright, I love having the best and latest software on my computer (who doesn't like being on the cutting edge if it's possible) and I am always trying to find out what program is the best for doing what.

I am simply a novice at best compared to the posters here. What are your favorite software programs of choice to handle everything your PC needs? I'm sure we all are missing something that could add to our productivity, make us safer on the internet, and even save us a few bucks too.

Here's what I have on my Laptop running XP Home Edition at the moment:

PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE

Business-School Productivity: Microsoft Office 2003 Professional (Outlook 2003 for E-mail), Microsoft OneNote 2003, Microsoft Frontpage 2003, and Adobe Creative Suite Premium 2

Personal Finance: Quicken 2006 Premier Home & Business (getting it as soon as it is released from Amazon)

RSS Reader: Mozilla Thunderbird

CD/DVD Burning and Music Management: Nero 6.6 Ultra Edition and iTunes 4.9

Instant Messaging: gaim (AIM Clone), ICQ 5, and MSN Messenger 7.0

IRC Client: mIRC

SECURITY SOFTWARE

Spyware-Adaware Fighters: Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta,
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Personal Edition, Spybot: Search & Destroy, SpywareGuard, and SpywareBlaster

Antivirus-Firewall: Trend Micro PC-cillin 2005 Internet Security

UTILITY SOFTWARE

Registry Cleaners: TweakNow RegCleaner (free version, not Professional shareware)

Defragmenter: PerfectDisk 7.0 and Diskeeper Pro (both freeware trial versions atm, not full versions)

So what are your programs of choice?
What else can make the ideal setup for the safest and fastest PC possible? Post your favorites!

[Jaggannath]

Microsoft XP Pro

Microsoft Office XP Professional (Microsoft Outlook for E-mail)

Ahead Nero package

Adobe 7.0

Instant Messaging: ICQ 5, and MSN Messenger 7.0

Lavasoft Ad-Aware Personal Edition, Spybot: Search & Destroy, Spyhunter

Antivirus-Firewall: AVG Home, Microsoft SP2 firewall

Defragmenter: XP defrag

PowerDVD

Does what I need it to.

[Thebranded]

XP Pro
Nero 6.something
Adaware + search and destroy
AVG and Zonealarm
PowerDVD (MPC or BS player for other media
Winamp 2.9 for audio
Opera

[spyder003]

Probably the same as most others. A few things I use:

Firefox
Opera
Thunderbird
AVG
Zone Alarm
MS Antispyware
Ad-Aware
Spybot
Diskeeper Pro
mIRC
Yahoo Messenger
Everest Home
iTunes
Nero 6 Ultra
Alcohol 120%
DVD Shrink
DVD Decrpyter
WinDVD
Limewire

And then of course a ton of games

Can't think of much else I want or need.

[ZYFER]

I have almost everything listed here installed, and then some, a list which would be at least a page long if I gave each one its own line.

[Mac Medic]

Just a few of the ones I use often.

OS X Tiger, Safari, Apple Mail, iCal, Adium-X, Adobe Photoshop CS, Final Cut Express 2.0, DVD studio Pro, Microsoft Office 2004 (not Entourage though, uuuggggh), Apple Pages, itunes, Toast Titanium 6, Delicious Library, Shrook RSS, Sherlock.

Sorry, no AV or anti spyware thingies though.

[doctorgonzo]

OS: Windows XP Home/Pro
Office: MS Office 2K, Open Office 2.0 Beta
Browser: Firefox
E-mail: Thunderbird, Groupwise
Chat: Trillian
Finances: Quicken 2005 (I hate this version! )
PDA: Palm Desktop, Intellisync
CD burning: Easy CD Creator, Nero
Music: Winamp
Anti-spyware: Spybot S&D, AdAware, SpySweeper
Antivirus: AVG
RSS feed reader: Feedreader
Image manipulation: Irfranview, GIMP 2.0
Hex editors: NitroHex, WinHex
FTP client: LeechFTP
Compression: WinRAR
Security: PGP, GnuPG + WinPT
System Information: SiSoft Sandra
Data shredding: Eraser
P2P: Limewire, ABC (Another Bittorrent Client)
Java IDE: Netbeans IDE
C++ IDE: Bloodshed IDE
C# IDE: Visual C# Express Edition Beta
md5 hash generator: md5summer
Postscript viewer: Ghostscript
Distributed computing: BOINC running Seti@Home, Climate Prediction dot net

[IronMentality]

Originally Posted by ZYFER I have almost everything listed here installed, and then some, a list which would be at least a page long if I gave each one its own line.

List em! It's always fun to find out new programs that are effective

[IronMentality]

Originally Posted by Mac Medic Just a few of the ones I use often. OS X Tiger, Safari, Apple Mail, iCal, Adium-X, Adobe Photoshop CS, Final Cut Express 2.0, DVD studio Pro, Microsoft Office 2004 (not Entourage though, uuuggggh), Apple Pages, itunes, Toast Titanium 6, Delicious Library, Shrook RSS, Sherlock. Sorry, no AV or anti spyware thingies though.

You Mac users always have to rub that no spyware programs needed line, don't you? =P

[Mac Medic]

i know

[catacon]

WINDOWS 98 SE (ick!)

- Internet / FTP -
'zilla stuff (Firefox and File)
IE
AIM (blah)
OE
YahooIM

- Games -
AOEII
Hearts, Minesweeper, etc.

- Office -
Word 97 (hoo yeah)
MS Works
WinZip
WinRAR

- Spyware / Adware -
Ad-Aware 6.0
SpyBot S&D

- Multimedia -
Finale 2003 (music composer)
FruityLoops (music composer)
Audacity (aduio editing program)
Nero OEM package
CD Player
Real Player
Winamp

- Graphics -
Photoshop 6.0
Jasc PSP 6

Think that's it

LINUX - SuSE 9.1 Pro ( )

- Internet / FTP -
'zilla stuff (Mo, Firefox)
Konquer
Opera
a few other browser (for web design testing)

- Games -
Frozen Bubble
Card games
Chess

- Office -
KWord
KDE, GNOME, BlackBox, etc. (not really office stuff, okay)
few other stuff that I can't remember

- Spyware / Adware -
NONE!

- Multimedia -
JACK stuff
Ardour, Audacity, SRN (I think) (for recording)
XMMS, KCD, etc. (media players)
RealPlayer

- Graphics -
Da GIMP

That about does it. I have a lot more stuff on Linux, but I can't remember it all.

[Hi Ho]

Here is everything I have installed:

Windows XP Home + Service Pack 2

3D Mark 05
AdAware SE
Acrobat Reader
Advanced Uninstaller Pro
Age of Mythology
Asus Probe
AVG Free Edition
Battlefield 2 Demo
Call of Duty + United Offensive Expansion
Divx Codec Pack
Doom 3 Demo
Everest Home Edition
Far Cry Demo
Goldwave
Google Earth
GTR Demo
Icon Packager
Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising + Escelation expansion
Maxthon Browser
Medal of Honor Allied Assault + Spearhead expansion
Microsoft .NET Framework
Microsoft Digital Image Pro
Microsoft Intellitype
Microsoft Intellipoint
Microsoft Money 99
Microsoft Office XP Professional W/Frontpage
Mozilla Thunderbird
MSN Messenger 7.0
Napster for WMP
Nvidia Drivers
Plextor Manager 2000
Prince of Persia Warrior Within
Quicktime Alternative
Real Alternative
Soundblaster Audigy Drivers
Splinter Cell Pandora Tommorow
Spybot Search & Destroy
Steam
TeamSpeak
The Gimp
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory Demo
TOPO!
Tweak UI
WalMart Music Downloads Store for WPM
Webshots
Windowblinds
Windows Movie Maker 2
Windows Media Player 10

[scottish144]

Kinda Stinks, but I've hacked the system to get optimal performance.

OS: Win 2k

Productiviy:

Office 200 Pro
Adobe Reader 7.0
Printshop Delux v20
Blender3D

Programming:
JGRASP IDE (Best IDE ever for C, C++, Java, Ada95, and others. jgrasp.org)
MPLAB 7.0 IDE
Boa Constructor (Python)
Java3D API docs and library files
Java API docs and library files
Mingw C Compiler
Python library files

Communications/Internet:

Outlook 2000 (never used)
Outlook Express(never used)
IE 6.0 (for windows updates only)
Firefox 1.0.6
AIM
MSN Messenger
MSN Premium
Thunderbird 1.0.6
BitTorrent

Utilities:

Norton Utilities 2002
FreeRamXPPro (Frees RAM on demand)
Google Earth Beta (GoogleMaps++++++++++++++++++++)
Google Desktop Search
DIRMS Defragger (Beats the #$%^ out of windows defrag)
Buzzsaw (Background Defragger)

Games/Entertainment:

Rise of Nations
Rise of Nations Thrones and Patriots
Starcraft
Starcraft Brood Wars
Star Trek Elite Force (Original)
Star Trek Armada 2
Myst
Riven
Exile
Simcity 3000
Space Empires III
Real Player Gold
Quicktime


Security:

Adaware
McAfee Antivirus
McAfee Firewall
Microsoft Anti-Spyware Beta
3 Hardware firewalls (2 wireless routers and a DSL modem)
McAfee Firewall
McAfee Antivirus

Misc:

BOINC (manager for SETI@home and ProteinPredictor@home)
Daemon Tools
UltraISO Mellenium Edition
RockSim 7.0 (Rocket construction and flight SIM)
WinRAR
Palm Desktop (for Tungsten E PDA)

[Strider]

My Favorite Programs
1. iTunes
2. Adobe Photoshop CS
3. Sony Vegas 6.0

My Favorite Protection Programs
1. Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security
2. eTrust PestPatrol
3. Spybot - Search & Destroy

My Favorite DVD Backup Programs
1. DVD Decypter (No Longer Being Developed )
2. DVD Shrink
3. PSP Video 9 (This is a great way of sticking my movie collection on to my Sony PSP using a 1 gig memory stick. The Movie Industry probably doesn't see it this way, but I think & feel it is because in my book it falls under the Fair Use in the DRM Act . The only time I'll be using this is when I'm going to Florida to visit my parents and watching a movie on the airplane and besides I rather watch my movies on my big screen TV than a 3 inch screen when I'm not 30,000 or so feet up. Sorry about going off topic. )
4. Nero

My Favorite Games, well actually I just have one game on my computer and that is Tiger Woods 2005 golf game.

Misc
1. Desktop Weather Platinum (Weather Program from the Weather Channel)
2. Webshots (Nice Desktop Backgrounds)
3. Diskeeper (A Good Defragger Program)
4. System Mechanic (I like this better than Norton)

All my programs are legal and I don't copy (or download) any movies or music for they too are also all legal.

[IronMentality]

Let's keep the games out of the list though -- and just stick with productivity, utilities, and security applications. Starcraft, although a great game, isn't necessarily cutting edge!

[thefultonhow]

Here's my list:

OS: Windows XP Home SP2
Productivity: MS Office 2003 Pro, Inspiration 7.5, Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Pro
Multimedia: Photoshop CS, iTunes 4.8, MusicMatch Jukebox 8.2, K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.30, Roxio Easy Media Creator 7
Internet: Firefox 1.06 (plus extensions), FirstClass 8.043 (my high school's email system), AOL Instant Messenger 5.5 w/ AIMutation 1.32, WinRAR, Weather Channel Desktop Weather, Google Earth, eBay Turbo Lister
P2P: Azureus, Kazaa Lite 2.6
Antivirus: McAfee VirusScan 8.0i Corporate
Utilities: Konfabulator 2.1, Centrino Hardware Control, Windows XP PowerToys, Diskeeper 8, PowerStrip, Daemon-Tools
Benchmarks (installed for a review I am writing): 3DMark05, PCMark04, Super PI, HD Tune, Windows Media Encoder 9

EDIT: Italicized what I think are out-of-the-ordinary ones.