Browser: Mozilla 1.5 beta , Opera 9 beta (backup) Email: Gmail Video player: Media Player Classic Chat: Trillian Pro v3.1 & GoogleTalk. Skype (skypeout is awesome). Music Player: Foobar2000 ( Saw some pple using it and decided to try and love its low mem usage, just like utorrent . For laptops anything low mem usage is great) * Audio Editing: Advanced CD Ripper Video Editing: VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1, the entire TMPGEnc suite, Dr DiVx, Autogk Image Editing: Photoshop Archiving: WinRAR and WinZip CD/DVD Burning: Nero or Sonic Drive Mounting: Daemon Tools Antivirus: Norton Internet Security 2005 (know it sucks but i dont need anything more) Antispyware: Spybot, AdAware & Trend Micro Spyware Remover Bandwidth Monitor/Traffic Shaper: Tautology Bandwidth Meter * Disk Maintenance: Diskeeper Professional Edition, CCleaner P2P Blocklist : Peerguardian2 * Ram Tuner: FreeRam XP Pro 1.50 * Office Software: OpenOffice 2.0 Etc: TreeSize * low memory usage PS> I haven bought an original software since i cant remember. Im so proud of myself!