Webbrowsing: Firefox 1.5 Movie player: MPC or VLC IM: Miranda IRC: Not a big IRC user, so I use Miranda's irc plugin Music Player: winamp 5.0+ Unzipping: WinRAR or 7zip Picture browsing: I use photoshops PDF maker function if I want to read a comic or so Picture editing: Photoshop CS CD burning: nero 7 or alcohol 120% image mounting: Daemon tools or alcohol 120% image mounting function Antivirus: ClamWin ( had Avast! before) anti-Spyware: Ad-aware SE, Spybot S&D, spyware blaster, winpooch Firewall: Sygate RSS Reader: Miranda Plug-in Hash checking: whitsoftdev MD5 Hash Checker