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It's time that we had a thread for you to let us know the Windows apps that you think are essential!

My list:

Firefox and Opera
I feel like you should have both. Opera is my main browser and use FF for a few other things.

Irfanview
This is the quickest image editing program I've seen - it's free, fast, and good for those times when photoshop is too much.

Flashget
Best downloading app ever.

Trillian
Until we get a Windows port of Adium, this is the IM client to go with

uTorrent
I switched from Azureus and have been very impressed. Small footprint.

SysSense
If you check your adsense totals a lot like I tend to do, this app sits in the taskbar and updates itself automatically. Very handy. (Google Ads are the only thing keeping this up, so it's always nice to know how much is in the bank)

NetStumbler
For finding free wifi.

Pixie
A great little app that tells you the color codes of whatever you mouseover.

FlashFXP
The best FTP app I've seen for Windows.
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- Mashugly   Essential Windows Programs   Feb 5 2006, 10:23 PM
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- - ozzie123   I wonder why no one listed MS Office yet. Well her...   Feb 6 2006, 01:30 PM
- - lazyilmaz   NLITE!!! QUOTE Have you ever wanted ...   Feb 6 2006, 08:28 PM
- - Unstable Connection   Dood does nlite work properly for u??? How?? All t...   Feb 7 2006, 04:52 AM
- - lazyilmaz   QUOTE (Unstable Connection @ Feb 7 2006, 04...   Feb 7 2006, 03:39 PM
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- - Eggman   Heh... Couldn't tell you. I formatted my Windo...   Feb 7 2006, 07:05 PM
- - donicci   Hiren's BootCD is a must for you using Windows...   Feb 7 2006, 07:18 PM
- - 0uch!p0tat0   Firefox, Outlook, iTunes, Remote Desktop, Alcohol ...   Feb 7 2006, 07:35 PM
- - domino   Additions: - Bluetooth for Windows - Widcomm v5.0...   Feb 8 2006, 07:41 PM
- - macgirl   iTunes iPod thing. PuTTY SSH and Telnet. DVD Dec...   Feb 9 2006, 01:14 AM
|- - domino   QUOTE (macgirl @ Feb 9 2006, 09:17 AM) I ...   Feb 9 2006, 06:06 AM
|- - macgirl   QUOTE (domino @ Feb 9 2006, 12:09 AM) How...   Feb 9 2006, 02:41 PM
- - REVENGE   iTunes - iPod VOIP Stunt - Free VOIP to Landline ...   Feb 9 2006, 01:41 AM
- - cyrana   I always install the cygwin tools on any Windows i...   Feb 9 2006, 02:52 PM
- - MrBond   Similar to some of your lists... Firefox - Lighty...   Feb 9 2006, 11:28 PM
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|- - Metrogirl   QUOTE (Mashugly @ Feb 12 2006, 02:14 PM) ...   Feb 12 2006, 11:08 PM
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- - Veeoh   Easy.. Textpad uTorrent Filezilla and Filezilla S...   Mar 10 2006, 10:41 PM
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- - myzar   No one mentioned the best filemanager , there...   Apr 7 2006, 09:22 PM
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- - colonels1020   All I really use is Bit Commet and VMWare.   Apr 10 2006, 10:58 AM
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- - Eric C   I'd say Gaim is the best chat client for windo...   Aug 8 2006, 03:47 PM
|- - bwhsh8r   QUOTE (Eric C @ Aug 8 2006, 11:44 AM) I...   Aug 17 2006, 03:29 AM
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|- - modbin   what about "the tools" like softice ID...   Sep 19 2006, 05:30 PM
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- - kernalzero   I won't repeat the ones already mentioned beca...   Sep 20 2006, 01:35 AM
- - williwilliwilli   In addition to all your suggestions (thanks for th...   Sep 20 2006, 01:11 PM
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- - lostgame   A hard disk formatter. Any one works. Also, an OS...   Nov 2 2006, 03:55 AM
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|- - guyin916   QUOTE (sheepdog43 @ Nov 4 2006, 08:33 PM)...   Dec 12 2006, 04:03 PM
- - sev7en   My best ones are... Firefox with FreeDownloader ...   Nov 12 2006, 08:16 AM
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