Browser: Firefox 1.5RC1, IE6 SP2 as a backup Email: Gmail Video player: Media Player Classic IM: AIM IRC: mIRC Music Player: Winamp Audio Editing: Goldwave, MediaCoder (transcoder), LAME 3.97b1 Video Editing: VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1, the entire TMPGEnc suite, WinAVI Image Browsing:ACDSee 5.0 Image Editing: FotoCanvas 2.0 Text Editing: UltraEdit-32, notepad for really simple stuff Hex Editing: XVI32 and UltraEdit-32 Archiving: WinRAR and 7-zip CD Mastering: Padus DiscJuggler Image Burning: Padus DiscJuggler, Alcohol 120% sometimes Drive Mounting: Daemon Tools Antivirus: Good computing practices Antispyware: SpywareBlaster, Spybot S&D (immunize function only) Bandwidth Monitor/Traffic Shaper: cFosSpeed FTP Client: SmartFTP Office Software: OpenOffice 2.0 HTTP Server: Icecast2 Win32's fileserve feature XD FTP Server: Serv-U Disk Maintenance: PerfectDisk 7 Hash checking: fsum to create, QuickPar to check