browser: Opera 8.5, Firefox if need be Email: Thunderbird, MailWarrior (on the road, Notebook, USB stick), Webmail PopTray for notification IRC: MIRC, TinyIRC (USB stick, Notebook) im: Miranda, EasyMessage (usb stick, Notebook) p2p: eMule, u/t, Soulseek movies: MediaPlayer Classic, VideoLAN music: WinAmp 2.95 graphic: PaintShop Pro 5 (that's good enough for me^^), IrfanView pim: EssentialPIM office: Textmaker, PlanMaker (MS Office viewer if need be) pdf: Foxit PDF Reader, AcrobatReader as backup anti virus: AVG, AntiVir as backup, Stinger antitrojan/antispam: MS AntiSpam, Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware, a² (yes, all of them, they all have their flaws) firewall: Sygate PFW, packet filter on my router, brain^^ a² HijackFree (better than HijackThis, imho) TotalCommander with lots of plugins for file management and ftp, sftp, archives, isos, ... other: Nero, Motherborad Monitor, WinBar, InterVideo WinDVR, Teamspeak 2, Qemu, PowerArchiver, FreePDF, Cerberus FTP Server, dBPowerAmp and lots of tools on my boot cd's and USB stick as you can see, I use lots of freeware and open source. The comemrcial applications I bought legally. Good software is worth being paid for (and if you think it's to expensive just look out for specials...)