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Ok, since everyone here loves µtorrent because of it's greatness (for lack of a better term), what are some other programs you use for doing different things?

I'll gives some general catagories that most people use:

Webbrowsing: Firefox (duh)

Movie player: BS Player

IM: Trillian (Xfire for gaming)

IRC: HydraIRC

voip in general: mostly google talk, but ventrilo from time to time

Music Player: quintessential

Audio Editing: Audacity

Unzipping: WinRAR

Picture browsing: Irfanview

Picture editing: Photoshop (haven't got around to switching to gimp yet)

CD burning: nero 7

image mounting: Daemon tools

Antivirus: AVG

Firewall: zonealarms

Bandwidth Monitor: tautology bandwidth monitor

Temp monitor: MBM 5

And that's about all :P

of course, I don't use them all at the same time ;)

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Web- depends, IE6, patched to the core, High Security, etc. Or K-Meleon, or PortableFF, or OffByOne

Movie/Audio: MediaPlayer Classic and/or VLC.

IM: ICQ

IRC: mIRC, bare bones, just tweaked out so it looks good, and functions decently. no custom addons scripts, etc.

voip: ventrillo when gaming

Unzip: WinRar

Pictures: MSpaint.exe....lol. it works for what i need it to do.

CD burnin: nero 7 ultra

Antivirus: none. common sense, and general good computing is always better than memory/CPU hogging AV....though, I might try out ClamWIN/AV since it's open source and free.

Firewall: Linksys BEFW11S4 v4. all 3 connected computers run Windows Firewall. no nagging, it just works :P. Also use pg2.

FTP: I like FTP.exe....lol

hm, i think thats it.

Oh yea, text editors. i use notepad primarily, but also use(d) UltraEdit, ConTEXT, Notepad2, Notepad++

really, depends what im doing :P

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ah yes, I forgot ftp. When I actually have to use ftp, I use fireftp which is integrated into firefox.

I just use notepad for basic text stuff, office xp for reports and such.

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Browser: Opera (IE when needed for certain things)

Video player: Media Player Classic

IM: Gaim

IRC: mIRC(I barely use IRC)

VOIP: Googletalk

Music Player: Winamp

Audio Editing: Cooledit (is the only one I've really used)

Archiving: WinRAR

Image editing: Photoshop

CD burning: Nero

Drive mounting: Daemon Tools

Antivirus: Kaspersky (of course)

Bandwidth Monitor: DUMeter

FTP: SmartFTP

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Browser: Both Internet Explorer 7b2 and Firefox 1.5RC1

Email: Outlook Express 6

Video player: Media Player Classic

AIM/MSN: GAIM

IRC: mIRC

Audio Editing: Audacity, LAME 3.96.1

Video Editing: AVISynth 2.56, VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1

Subtitle Timing: Medusa, my own mIRC scripts as helpers

Image Editing: Photoshop CS

Text Editing: Notepad2

Archiving: Both WinRAR and WinZip

CD Mastering: Nero 6.6

Image Burning: Alcohol 120%

Drive Mounting: Alcohol 120%

Antivirus: avast! Antivirus

Antispyware: SpywareBlaster, Microsoft Antispyware, avast! Antivirus

Bandwidth Monitor: mIRC scripts

RSS Reader: FeedReader

FTP Client: FlashFXP

Firewall: Linksys 4-port Cable/DSL Router -> Netgear WGR614 Wireless Router -> Windows Firewall

Office Software: Microsoft Office 2003, PDF Redirect

HTTP Server: TinyWeb

FTP Server: SlimFTPd

Disk Maintenance: Executive Diskeeper Professional

Memory Maintenance: FreeRam XP Pro

Hash checking: fsum

Side note: my antispyware combo kept me completely clean even through my unpatched Internet Explorer 6 days.

EDIT: Whoops~ Forgot a few:

P2P apps: Share A82, Winny 2.0b66-EN (Sadly, the Japanese version doesn't work for me with locale or AppLocale), µTorrent

Download Manager: NetTransport2

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Browser : Opera everytime

Video Player : Vlc

IM : IM2

IRC : IceChat

VOIP : Not used anymore but did have skype.

Audio Player : Winamp

Archiving : WinRAR

Image Editing : Photoshop

Cd burning : Nero 6.6.0.16 ( not keen on the new bloated crap )

Image Mounting : Daemon Tools

AV : who needs it when ur smart enough not to get them in the first place

Firewall : Router :D

Ftp : FileZilla

Text editor/Code editor : Notepad2

Torrent Manager : µTorrent ( Had to put this in :D )

Download Manager : Free Download Manager

Batch File Renaming : Lupas Rename 2000

Hex Editor : UltraEdit32

System Utils : TuneUp Utilities 2006

Defrag : O&O Degrag 8

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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 :lol:

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

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Interweb: Firefox & Opera

Email Client: Thunderbird

Zip Manager: 7-Zip

Password Manager: KeePass

Download Manager: Free Download Manager

Antivirus: avast!

Firewall: ZoneAlarm

Anti-Spyware: Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Spybot S & D, Spyware Doctor, SpywareBlaster, Ad-Aware SE personal

Registry Cleaners/Backup: CCleaner, Registry Mechanic, RegSeeker, TweakNow RegCleaner, ERUNT Registry Backup

Media Players: All of the popular ones but mainly Winamp

Batch File Renamer: Lupas Rename

PDF Reader: Foxit Reader

P2P: LimeWire, Shareaza

Image Editors: Picasa, Paint.NET, FastStone Image Viewer

Desktop Enhancement: NetMeter, Rainlendar, ObjectDock, WinBar

System Info: Aida32, WinDirStat, AutoRuns

Desktop Search: MSN Search Toolbar

Other: Unlocker, Wallpaper XChange

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Browser: Firefox 1.5RC1 & Opera

Email Client : The Bat!

Email: Gmail

Antivirus: MCafee Virusscan enterprise 8i

Firewall : Outpost

AudioPlayer: Foobar

MediaPlayer: Media Player Classic

PDF : Foxit

Programming : JBuilder & CBuilder

Image Editing: Photoshop cs2

Burning: Nero & Alcohol120%

Http: Apache & Mysql

Explorer : Total commander & Directory Opus

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Media player - VLC Player, WMP

Streaming media capture - SDP Downloader

File extracter - WinRar

ftp - FlashFXP (the newer version runs off the exe.....genius......)

Anti-spyware - SpySweeper, Spybot S&D, SpywareBlaster, RootKit Revealer, Process Explorer

Anti-virus/firewall - PG2, Norton IS 2005 w/AntiVirus

Office software - MS Works, WordPad & NotePad

Media creator - Roxio EZ CD & DVD Creator Cd/dvd file rescue - Isobuster

System repair - Winternals w/Remote Recover (This just recently helped keep me from pulling my hair out) lol

Password manager/form filler - AI RoboForm

PartitionExpert & PartitionRecovery

NewsRover - newsgroup reader

Image/screen/scene capture - SnagIt

EZ Video Joiner & Splitter

VMWare Virtual Machine

Web browser - IE, Firefox

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Firefox 1.5rc1 - Browser

Thunderbird 1.07 - E-Mail

uTorrent - BitTorrent

ObjectDock - Dock

Trillian (w/ECL plugin)/Google Talk - Chat

Winamp/Media Player Classic - Audio/Video player

Winrar/Quickpar - Archive

Usenet Explorer - Usenet

Gordian Knot - Video Encoding

VSO Copy To DVD/Blindwrite 5 - Burning

MS Office 2003 - Productivity/Office

Macromedia Studio 8 - Web Design

MS Antispyware beta - Antispyware

Free Download Manager - Download Manager

FlashFXP/Gene6 FTP Server - FTP

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Firefox

Thunderburd

mIRC

total commander -file manager

smartFTP

leechget

Xnews -usenet

MS Antispyware beta

Ultraedit 10 -text editor

Word/Excel

Gaim - IM

CDex - ripping

winamp

AnalogX netstat live - bandwidth monitor

Admuncher - ad/popup blocker

winrar

irfanview

nero

symantec AV corp

putty -ssh/tenet

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Layout : ScubeSteves. :P

Browser : Firefox

Video Player : Media Player Classic

IM : Trillian

IRC : Trillian (don't use IRC enough to merit another client)

VOIP : Skype

Audio Player : Winamp

Archiving : 7-Zip

Image Editing : Photoshop

Cd burning : Alcahol 120%

Image Mounting : Daemon Tools

AV : NOD32

Firewall : Router and Windows firewall, if that counts for anything

Ftp : FileZilla

Text editor/Code editor : Notepad

Torrent Manager : µTorrent

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Browser: Firefox 1.07 with tabbrowser, adblock and filterset.G updater extensions

Email: Gmail

RSS Reader: Firefoxes built in

Video player: Media Player Classic

MP3: Winamp

Chatting: MSN and MiRC

Audio Editing: Steinberg Wavelab, Propellerheads Reason

Image Editing: Photoshop CS

Archiving: WinRAR

CD Mastering: Nero 5.5

Image Burning: Alcohol 120%

Drive Mounting: Daemon Tools

Antivirus: Kasperksy (i never get viruses)

Antispyware: SpywareBlaster, Spybot and Adaware (i never get spyware/adware)

FTP Client: Filezilla

Firewall: Dlink DI-604 (router)

HTTP Server: Ubuntu (Linux dist)

.. dont think i forgot anything..?!

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TYPO

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Browser: Firefox

Email: The Bat!

Video player: VLC, BS Player

Audio player: Winamp

Audio Ripping: CDex

Video Ripping: DVDdecrypter

Image Editing: Photoshop

Image browser: ACDsee Classic

Archiving: WinRAR, 7-zip

CD Burning: Nero, Alcohol 120%

Antivirus: avast! Antivirus

Antispyware: Microsoft Antispyware, Spybot S&D, Outpost plugin

Firewall: Outpost, DI-604 router

Bandwidth Monitor/Shapper: Netlimiter

RSS Reader: RssReader

FTP Client: FlashFXP

FTP Server: Serv-U

Hash checking: Firefox MDHashTool extension

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I want to laugh at many of these. Ah well, might as well copy a short list down.

IRC: irssi

Text Editing: nano, vi, sed, etc.. Kate when on a desktop

FTP: ncftp

Mail: mail

SSH: dropbear

No Antivirus Needed

No Antispyware Needed

Sometimes, No Harddisk Needed (OpenWRT on a WRT54GS) ;D

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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 :P

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

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Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 and Firefox 1.5 Beta 2

Email: Mozilla Thunderbird

Video player: BSPlayer Pro

MSN: MSN Messenger

IRC: UPP

Code Editing: NoteTab Pro

Video Editing: Sony Begas, MeGUI, VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1

Image Editing: Photoshop CS

Text Editing: NoteTab Pro

Archiving: WinRAR

CD Mastering: Nero 6.6

Image Burning: BlindWrite Suite 5.2.2, Slysoft AnyDVD

Drive Mounting: Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools

Antivirus: BitDefender 8 Professional Plus

Antispyware: None

Bandwidth Monitor: SysMetrix

RSS Reader: Sage

FTP Client: SmartFTP, FlashFXP

Firewall: BitDefender 8 Professional Plus

Office Software: OpenOffice 1.1, Adobe Acrobat 6.0

HTTP Server: Apache HTTP server 2.0

FTP Server: ioFTPd, GuildFTPd, TitanFTP, Gene6 FTP Server

DC Hub Software: YnHub 1.031

Virtual Mail Server: Microsoft IIS 4.0

Disk Maintenance: O&O Defrag

Hash Checking: CL md5

Download Manager: Firefox/Download Manager Tweak, FlashGot extension

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Webbrowsing: Firefox

Email: Outlook Express 6

Movie player: MPC (Media Player Classic -NOT THE M$ ONE-)

IM: MirandaIM

IRC: mIRC sadly, maybe one day XChat.

voip in general: none.

Music Player: Foobar2000, Duh.

Audio Editing: Nothing really.

Unzipping: WinRAR

Picture browsing: Irfanview

Picture editing: Photoshop

CD burning: Nero.

image mounting: Daemon tools

Antivirus: Kaspersky 4 teh win.

Firewall: XPSP2. Hack me please, i dont care :P

Bandwidth Monitor: uhh, cFosSpeed when its running, i dont really care usualy.

Temp monitor: useless.

FTP: Filezilla, FlashFXP mostly.

Text: Notepad usualy, word for other stuff.

CD Ripping: CDex

mp3 Tag Editor: Tag&Rename

Did i forget anything ?

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Webbrowsing: Firefox

Email: Gmail and Thunderbird

Movie player: Media Player Classic

IM: Trillian and Google Talk

IRC: no

voip in general: no

Music Player: Winamp and musikCube

Audio Editing: Audacity

Unzipping: WinRAR/XP's winzip/7Zip

Picture browsing: none

Picture editing: Fireworks 8

CD burning: Nero

image mounting: Daemon tools

Antivirus: none

Firewall: xp's + router

Bandwidth Monitor: none

Temp monitor: none

FTP: Filezilla

Text: Notepad

CD Ripping: Exact Audio Copy

mp3 Tag Editor: Tag&Rename

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Windows:

Web - Firefox 1.5RC1, IE7

Emails - N/A

IM - N/A

VoIP - N/A

IRC - mIRC with NNScript (only when needed)

CDBurning - Nero6 Enterprise

Unzipping - 7Zip, WinRAR

Picture Editing - Photoshop CS2

AV - ClamAV+WinPooch

FTP - CoreFTP

Music - Winamp 5.1.11

Movie - VLC

Linux:

Web: Firefox (Trunk), Opera 8.50

Video - VLC, Googles (ogle)

IM - Gaim+Gfire

IRC - Xchat + xlack

VoIP - TS2

Music - XXMS

Unzip - UnRAR, Tar

Picture edit - GIMP + GiMPshop

CD burning - Nautulis Burn

AV - ClamAV

FTP - gFTP

Email - Thunderbird (Trunk)

think thats everything

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web: opera

movie player: MPC & VLC

im: Konnekt

irc: mirc with noname script

music player: foobar

audio encode: lame + razorlame

(de)compression: winrara

file manager: total commander

gfx: photoshop

burnin: imgburn, nero 7

antivir: Free-Av (www.free-av.com)

firewall: kerio

bandwidth monitor: netlimiter

temp monitor: speedfan

download manager: flashget

torrent: µTorrent

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Browser : Opera / Firefox

Video Player : Vlc

IM : MSN Messengers Plus + apatch

IRC : mIRC

VOIP : Not used

Audio Player : Winamp

Archiving : WinRAR

Image Editing : I dun edit Images but if i do its Paint

Cd burning : Nero 6.6 the latest build / Alcohol120%

Image Mounting : Alcohol 120%

Iso Editing: Ultra ISO

AV : Nod32

Firewall : Router/Sygate/Pg2

Ftp : Dun use ftp, used to use FlashFXP

Text editor/Code editor : Notepad

Torrent Manager : µTorrent

Download Manager : Flashget

Batch File Renaming : Command Prompt

System Utils : TuneUp Utilities 2006

Defrag : Perfect Disk

Bandwidth Monitor: DuMeter

Temp Monitor: speedfan

Mp3 Tag Editor: Tag&Rename

AntiSpyware: Spybot S&D/ Spyware Blaster/ Ad-aware SE Pro

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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...)

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