7-Zip File compression

Avast! Home Edition Best Antivirus - far better than Norton

CCleaner Registry Cleaner & optimizer

Clipmagic powerful Clipboard Extender and Information Manager for storing Images and Text

Converber Easy conversions between 1173 various units, autoupdates datafile

DAEMON Tools Mounts ISO files as drives

DeepBurner, DVD Shrink, ImgBurn CD/DVD Burning tools

FileZilla FTP client

Firefox The perfect web browser

Foxit Reader For those who hate Adobe Reader - smaller, much faster

IrfanView Image viewing & editing

JKdefrag The best HD defragger yet, much faster than the Windows defragger, more configurable than Norton.

Miranda Ultimate universal chat client - for those that use MSN, ICQ, etc, but hate the programs & the overhead they cause.

Miro The only video player you need.

OpenOffice MS office replacement, opens & edits MS documents

PC Wizard System detection/analysis/benchmarking, puts realtime system temp/voltage info on your desktop

Pegasus Email Client

PSPad The best ASCII text/programmer's editor I have tried. Sorts, search/replace in multiple files,etc

RealVNC Remote computer control, like PCAnywhere, but faster & FREE

Real Alternative For those who hate RealPlayer - smaller, much faster

Spybot, Ad-Aware Spyware detection & removal programs

STRun View, disable & enable all the programs that run when Windows starts

VLC Media Player Does everything Winamp can't, with audio & video

Winamp The music player

ZoneAlarm Free Fantastic simple firewall

uTorrent eMule File stealing - errr - downloading utilities

CamStudio, a simple tool that captures all the screen or a part to a video.

Cream, Cream is an improved version of Vim, that has all the features of Vim but is easy to use.

FileZila, is for FTP,SFTP,and FTPS

FreeMind, helps you to draw schemes of your ideas

GAG, is a graphical boot manager

JFtp, supports SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP. Its a Java program. Has a much simplified interface than FileZila.

Kompozer, is another improved editor.

MegaPOV, This is a improved version of POV.

SEONote, organizes notes and files.

WinSCP, is a Windows program for secure FTP.

QuickRun, allows you to make list of programsopen them all that for you when clicked.

ArtRage artistic painting. Very easy.

Anim8or, you can not only models, render make videos of your animations.

Art of Illusion, 3d modeling

CBModelPro, is an organic modeling program. It h

CinePaint, a collection of video and image tools

CreaToon, is for making cartoon .

DataCrow, organize your data in different categories

DeepPaint, is an artistic painting program

FreeMorphing,

FreeSSHd Server,

gCAD3D, It's free CAD software for industrial design or architecture.

Miro, is a video player

The Gimp,

Inkscape, a vector graphics editor

JKDefrag, JKDefragGUI,

Free Mp3 Wma Converter, is a sound tool

Sunbird, a calendar and events application

Mp3MyMp3 Recorder, record all that sounds in your PC to a mp3 file

TreeDBNotes Free, note organizer that lists your data in tabbed tree views

NeoMem, another opensource organizer.

Netbeans IDE, a powerful Java editor that you can use for developing applications and websites.

Notetab Light, a code editor

Texture Processor, a tool for easy making seamless textures of all kinds

Rainlendar, calendar, event reminder with alarms, and a "To Do" task list

RSSOwl, is a news feed reader

JR Directory Printer, prints a directory contents (names of files,etc) in a text file.

JR Screen Ruler

Wood Worshop, makes seamless wood textures.

TaskCoach, a task manager.

ScreenHunter 5 Free, screen capture