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Software Picks

Anti-malware/Anti-spyware
Avira AntiVir
Malwarebytes
Spybot Search & Destroy

Audio Editing
Audacity

Benchmarking
3DMark06 - GPU
3DMark Vantage - GPU
HD Tach - HDD
HD Tune - HDD

CD/DVD Ripping
DVDShrink - DVD
FreeRIP - Audio

CD/DVD Writing and Imaging
Imgburn

Compression
7-zip
IZarc

Dictionary/Thesaurus
WordWeb

Disc Management
Clonezilla - imaging
GParted - partitioner

Document Readers
Adobe Reader
Foxit Reader

Download Managers
Free Download Manager

File Recovery
PC Inspector
Recuva

FTP Clients/Servers
Filezilla

Gaming Clients
Steam

Graphic Editors
GIMP
Paint.Net
SmillaEnlarger

Hardware Auditing
CPU-Z
GPU-Z
Speccy

Hex Editing
HxD
XVI32

Instant Messengers
Pidgin
Windows Live Messenger

IRC Clients
Chatzilla
Pidgin

Mail Clients
Windows Live Mail

Maintenance
Ccleaner
Defraggler
JKDefrag
Power Defragmenter
WinDirStat

Media Format Conversion
SUPER

Media Players
foobar2000
KMPlayer
Quicktime Alternative
Real Alternative
VLC
Zune

Network Tools
Hamachi - zero configuration VPN

Office and Word Processors
Microsoft Office 2007/2010
PDFCreator

Overclocking
RivaTuner - GPU
SetFSB - CPU/RAM

Programming/Markup IDEs
Bricx Command Center - NQC/NXC
Eclipse - Java
Netbeans - C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby
Notepad++ - editor with syntax highlighting
Visual Studio Express Editions - Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++

Synchronisation
FullSync

System Tools
MS PowerToys

Stability Testing
FurMark
LinX
memtest86+ - RAM
OCCT - CPU/RAM and GPU
Prime95 - CPU/RAM

Temperature Monitoring
Core Temp
RealTemp - CPU
SpeedFan

Virtualisation
VirtualBox

Web Browsers
Chrome
Firefox
Opera