What are your essential programs?

Currently on my quick select (aka my A-List)
foobar2000 0.8.3 Best dedicated music player period. I don't know why anyone would use Winamp over this.
Firefox 1.5.0.1 What can I say, I'm a sucker for Adblock and Gmail Notifier
Media Player Classic 6.4.8.9 Looks like the minimalist WMP 6x, but does everything right that WMP does wrong. Plus it supports an immense amount of formats.
WinRAR 3.51 Has a better interface than all other compressors I've tried, plus RAR's have great compression.

Exact Audio Copy 0.95 beta 3 Self explanitory, anyone who takes accuracy seriously with DAE should know about this program.
Ad-Aware SE Professional 1.06 Just so I have a anti-spyware program.
The Gimp 2.2.10 Like Photoshop, but free.
µTorrent 1.4 build 402 Doesn't suck up RAM and has a really simple interface.
WinHex 12.8 SR-9 Because I love the Hex editor and the other abilities after I cracked this $180 util (edit: found a new keygen!).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SonicEchidna

Firefox: It's the best web browser that I've used. Fully customizable too. Me likes.
Nero: Makes burning CD's and DVD's simple.
FileZilla: Since my ISP doesn't let me use BitTorrent, then this is the next best thing. Especially on GFF.
MS Office: Simply because it's the best for my college work. I haven't tried OpenOffice, but I'm happy with what I've got, so why change?

I use FileZilla as well, but not the client; the server. It's easy to use, and someone wanted to give a file via FTP, what better way than using my PC for the transfer?

There's nowhere I can't reach.