- Anti-Spyware - Spybot Search & Destroy; LavaSoft AdAware.
- Anti-Virus - AVG Free Edition
- Audio Editor - N/A
- Audio Player - Foobar2000
- Bittorrent Client - uTorrent
- Desktop Enhancement - N/A
- Direct Connect Client - N/A
- Disk Defragmenter - Windows built-in defragger.
- Disk Imaging - N/A
- Documents - OpenOffice.org 2.1
- Download Accelerator - FlashGet, DownThemAll! 0.9.9.7
- DVD/CD Authoring - Nero 6.6.0.3 Ultra Edition
- DVD Authoring - N/A
- DVD Ripping - DVD Decrypter.
- E-Mail Client - Mozilla Thunderbird.
- EDonkey Client - I'm much of the sames opinion as Acer on this.
- File Undelete - N/A
- Firewall - Kerio Personal Firewall 4.22
- FTP Client - FlashFXP
- GBA Emulation - N/A. I use a flash cart.
- Hard Disk Recovery - N/A. Never found a use for this software.
- IM Client - Windows Live Messenger, AIM.
- Image Viewer - IrfanView.
- IRC Client - mIRC (with Sysreset script)
- Machine Translation - N/A.
- MIDI Authoring - N/A.
- Password Recovery - N/A. This kind of thing is a liability.
- Picture Editor - JASC Paint Shop Pro 9
- SNES Emulation - ZSNES
- Video Editor - Virtualdub.
- Video Player - Media Player Classic, with Quicktime & RealPlayer Alternative, and Combined Community Codec Pack
- Web browser - Firefox 2.0
- Widgets - N/A
Other indispensible software for me:
Japanese Word Processor - JWPce
Bulk Renamer - Ant Renamer
Checksum verification - QuickSFV
Jam it back in, in the dark.