What do you use your computer for?

First off is the poll. Are you a computer perfectionist? do you need the latest, the greatest, the best software? a sexy interface, services.msc and regedit hacked for perfection? Or do you really just not care.

Second, what do you use your computer for? Work? School? and if so, what kind of work? Do you mostly use it for things like facebook, AIM, and downloading mp3s to your ipod? or things like coding XHTML, CSS, digital photo editing, or creating music with Sibelius?

Third, what are your top programs on your computer? the ones you absolutely cannot live without?

I am indeed curious to see what you guys do with your machines.

Additional Information:
For me...I am computer obsessed. I have like 9 utility programs, including Ad aware, Spybot, Diskeeper, partition magic, tunexp,tuneup utilities 2007, CCleaner, activesmart, and AVG. When I install windows I automatically run regedit and services.msc to disable useless crap, and also mess around a lot with windows settings. I disable messenger and security center as well. I defragment quite often and run my utilities at least once a week. All my folders are very organized, my hard drive include System, Temp, Music, and Data. Temp is where everything is downloaded, data is where i store all my project info and other stuff, music and system are self explanitory.

I use my computer for...web browsing, facebook, AIM, ipod, Music, Movies, Photoshop, Reading/eBooks, Games, HTML coding, Making Music with my guitar/Sibelius/cakewalk, ripping dvds and cd's, learning french, posting here, calandar, and writing papers for my webpage(which im still working on) and school. Also burning...anything, editing my photos that I take with my camera, and storing all my data.

Programs I can't live without:

Firefox
Trillian
foobar2000
Nero 8
Word/Open office
Photoshop/GIMP
uTorrent
Limewire
Flashfxp
notepad

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Night Phoenix

Obviously, my computer is designed for creating high-quality music --

Outside of the basic security utilities (Ad-Aware, Spybot, etc.) and other basic programs (Firefox, Diskeeper, Tune-Up Utilities, etc.) my computer is loaded up with audio content creation programs:

Nuendo 3
Reason 4
FL Studio 7
Adobe Audition 1.5
T-Racks 24 Mastering Suite
Waves Diamond Bundle 5.2

Couple this with a M-Audio 49-key MIDI Controller, $500 8-inch studio reference monitors, and a Firepod audio interface and I have a pretty mean machine as far as audio's concerned.

Oh, that's sick. My friend had a nice pair of M-Audio Studio Monitors...they fuckin' bumped. Hey, do they make midi controllers for usb/firewire/esata or anything like that? or is it specifically for midi inputs/outputs? (as the name implies, lol) I'd like to get one to play some piano on

There's nowhere I can't reach.