What are your essential programs?

I have a pretty strict set of apps that I install to my PC.

Adobe Reader - Use it for PDFs, what else? Kind of hoggish on resources, though.

BitComet - Great BT client. I'd rather not use a Java-based client, like Azureus.

Daemon Tools - Absolutely essential for reading ISOs, be it movies or games.

Dreamweaver 2004 - I don't use this much, but I may start to as my design business starts picking up.

DVD Decrypter - One of the best DVD rippers/burners out there. I rip a lot of PS2 games with this.

FileZilla - Great opensource FTP client. Very easy to use.

Firefox - Truly standards-compliant browser. To hell with Internet Exploder.

FontFolio OpenType Edition - Not really an app, but really useful to me anyways. It's a huge collection of professional fonts that I use for my web design.

Miranda-IM - Great lightweight chat program. Supports a ton of different chat protocols, and has plugin and skin support.

Nero Burning ROM - Best burning software period.

NOD32 - Best antivirus I've ever come across. Incredibly lighweight and powerful. Supposedly picks up the slack most other AVs leave behind.

OpenOffice - To hell with MS Office. This is a fully featured Office clone, and costs absolutely nothing vs. $400 for MS Office. Some little things aren't quite up to par yet, but it's still free.

Photoshop CS - Used for web design. Nuff said.

Sygate Firewall - Yeah it's discontinued, but it's still loads better than a lot of other firewalls. It may be time to start looking for a new one.

Ventrilo - Used for games and better than Teamspeak. Nuff said.

Winamp - I like it cuz it's tiny and skinnable.

WinRAR - Does everything WinZip and 7-Zip do. I only use RARs and ZIPs anyways. Does a great job at compressing files.

And of course, I have my games installed as well.

Jam it back in, in the dark.