[Galemp]

Which are your favorite applications? They have to be (legally) free, relatively small, install and uninstall cleanly, and be useful enough that you use it almost every day.

My nominations:

iTunes jukebox, music store, CD rip/burn, music share, all around wonderful music app
Trillian full-featured IM client with support for AIM, ICQ, IRC, Y!M, and MSN
Irfanview image viewer/converter

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[Turnsky]

http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/

[Setekh]

http://www.windowblinds.net/

WB4 runs even faster than the standard XP desktop API.

[Fury]

FileZilla & Filezilla Server, Miranda IM, Mozilla, Zoomplayer, Irfanview, Winamp, avast! Antivirus 4 home edition & Sygate Personal Firewall (standard).

And then codecs  I am using. I don't use codec-packs made by others which are full of **** or outdated codecs, instead I periodically run through the homepages of codecs I use. And of course checking excellent Inmatrix's mediasetup article  to see of it is updated.

OK well, I have to admit that perhaps not all of those codecs I am using are completely legal. But who cares...

[WMCoolmon]

Winamp - One of the best multimedia players ever.
Crimson Editor - For all your text editing needs (can properly color most config and source files)
SmartFTP - a great FTP program.
Audacity, a good soundfile-editor.
Continuum, a good (free) game.

[mikhael]

Where would I be without em?

Mozilla (web and mail)
Context (source code editor in the DOS 'edit' style)
Python (my favorite scripting/programming language)
DevC++/GCC (hey, sometimes you just gotta use C/C++)

[Admiral LSD]

On Windows? Let's see. Off the top of my head:

Gaim. Like Trillian, only free and with a more complete feature set (ICQ v8 springs to mind).
BersIRC. A multi-server (which is what initially attracted me to it) IRC client with a much cleaner interface than that relic of the Windows 3.1 era, mIRC.

The rest of what I use most commonly on Windows (Opera, GetRight, WinZip, WinRAR, Windows Media Player, Ad-Aware etc) doesn't really qualify as free (in either the "freedom" or "free beer" sense) so probably won't count.

[Kosh]

My nomination:

AVG anti-virus
ZoneAlarm
Adaware
Divx 5.0.5

[karajorma]

Daemon Tools A virtual CD/DVD emulator that lets you place images of disks on your hard drive and use them as if they were real CDs/DVDs

AceFTP A free FTP client. Best one I've found so far. Definately better than smartFTP.

AceHTML A free HTML editor. You still need to know HTML of course but this makes things easier to do since you don't have to type in every single tag by hand. Will also parse your code and look for errors.

[demon442]

AVG Anti-Virus:  Don't be stupid and you'll be fine.
ZoneAlarm:  Pro edition let me ride out the Blaster worm untouched.
RegCleaner:  Best regestry editing app out there.
TweakAll:  For when TweakUI woun't work on your system.
SpyBot Search & Destroy:  When used in conjunction with Ad-Aware, nothing escapes.


If you're interested, Google the above products and enjoy.

[Turnsky]

Smart Popup Killer : quite a neat little proggie that helps rid oneself of the greater majority of pop-up windows..

[ZylonBane]

Google Toolbar. Also has one of the more effective popup killers built right in.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Pegasus mail
Like Tweak UI? Try X setup.

I'd also like to give kudos to Trillian, SmartFTP and Winamp.
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[Stealth]

AIM, ICQ, MSN, Trillian, Winamp, Winzip, WinRAR, ZoneAlarm,

[kode]

winamp, opera, and windows commander (now renamed to total commander because of some stupid reason).
opera and the commander aren't exactly free, tho, as they are shareware or something. maybe I should get a license for windows commander, as I've used it since 1993 or so. anyways, it's a really great file managing tool, and it's what I use instead of the desktop and explorer and notepad and sometimes instead of leechftp. did I mention you can manage a lot of different file compression formats in it too (liek zip, rar, arj, uc2, ace, tar, and more)?

[Admiral LSD]

Originally posted by ZylonBane
Google Toolbar. Also has one of the more effective popup killers built right in.

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Like Tweak UI? Try X setup.[/color]

I can't believe I forgot those two...

[ZylonBane]

Another little obscure utility that I've come to depend on: Button Boogie. It's one of PC Magazine's utils. Lets you rearrange buttons on the task bar by clicking and dragging them. Perfect for at work when I'll usually have about at least a half-dozen programs open.

[Ryx]

A media player, I've been using a lot...

Foobar2000 - for win and *nix (I think)

The MAD plugin for WinAmp. Better MP3 decoder than winamps own.

[castor]

Mozilla
Foobar2000 (also for *nix? how, when, where?!)
IrfanView

[Galemp]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[Like Tweak UI? Try X setup.[/color]

Cute program... look what I can do.