NETWORKING

• Mozilla Firefox (a web browser, with tabbed browsing, custom keywords, and no unwanted popups)
  
• Firefox bookmarklets and extensions: Adblock, RadialContext, User Agent Switcher, ReloadEvery, Magpie, MiniT
  
• Filezilla (an ftp/sftp client that looks like CuteFTP and uses PuTTY's key agent)
• Gaim (an instant messenger)
• Klipfolio (a news ticker / rss viewer)
• Kerio Personal Firewall (the only free firewall that doesn't seem to leak memory or crash my SMP computer)
• PuTTY (a set of SSH clients)
• Cygwin/X (a port of X11, including an X server)
  

MEDIA

• BSPlayer 0.86 build 501 (a media player that handles DivX files well, even on SMP machines)
• Media Player Classic (a media player modeled after Windows media player 6)
• Real Alternative (a replacement for Real Player, without the bloat, using Media Player Classic)
• foobar2000 (an audio player, uglier but leaner than Winamp)
  
• AC3Filter (a DirectShow filter for decoding AC3 audio)
  
• Subtitle Workshop (for converting between subtitle files of different formats)
• HACP (a lightweight cd player that understands CD text and online CD databases)
• IrfanView (an image viewer similar to ACD See)
• XnView (another image viewer)
• Exact Audio Copy (an excellent CD audio extractor)

UTILITY

• Ad-Aware (for finding and removing spyware from your computer)
• Spybot - Search & Destroy (another spyware removal program)
• AVG Anti-Virus (not crashy like Norton AV, but updated less frequently)
  
• IZArc (an archive & file compression utility similar to WinZip)
  
• PDFCreator (link removed due to spyware concern) (for converting your documents to Adobe PDF files)
• pdf995 (another PDF creation tool)
• ListXP (a lightweight raw file viewer modeled after Vernon D. Buerg's list for DOS)
• Dependency Walker (shows dependencies of Windows executables)