I am a big fan of some of the opensource win32 apps that are being developed at the moment. Instead of winrar - i use 7-zip , deals with rars zips etc and a feature I like is that it tells you how fast it is extracting stuff which is kinda neat instead of nero - CD burner XP Pro - open source again and in my opinion better than nero (I dont use most of neros features all i do is burn ISOs and make data DVDs which CCDBXP pro does extremely Notepad++, opensource replacement to notepad. jEdit - one of the best text editors in my opinion with syntax highlighting etc, really smart videolan (vlc) for watching films, god I love this app. im using avast for AV, since i got my first virus the other day (i stupidly used IE on www.serials.ws and accidentily allowed activex control to run - FUCK that website and any website that uses spyware companies for ad revenues)
