Top 20 Best Programs....

[Captain Slug]

You made those ninja smilies Maybe you could make some doing rolls

I can make them do whatever I want...

 

[dalamar]

Well, I have many different roles for which certain programs are essential.

User (on windows box, only when forced)
-Win2k OS
-winrar
-kazaa lite (if I have too)
-mirc
-navce
-mbm
-winamp
-mozilla
-zonealmarm, if not behind a hardware firewall
-securefx sftp client
-realvnc
-homesite
-forte

User (linux box)
-mozilla
-ximian redcarpet
-xmms
-gaim
-my terminal of course
-pico
-gedit
-evolution
-gimp
-samba

tech working on windows box (almost never have to on linux P)
-lavasoft ad-aware
-norton dos-scanner (older boxes)
-navce
-symantec virus removal tools
-trusty boot disc
-furytcp (easier to check ports)
-zonealarm

 

[Namagomi]

In no descernable order,
interstate 76
The Original (Ad-Free) ICQ
The Original Napster
KazaaLite
Girder (IR control ap)
WinXP
Bridge Builder
WinAmp2 (winamp3 is total bloatware)
CPUID
anything by HOda
Bersirc (IRC program, hellaleet)
PopUp Stopper

 

[eab]

AVG anti Verius software
Opera
Textpad
win Ace
Winamp 3
BS player
Some sort of monitoring software, VIA hiam, MBM5..
Adobe Acrobat reader
MS Office
Enclyopedia of sorts

 

[Silversinksam]

Not going to repeat some of the ones you all mentioned but Cloudmark's Free Spamnet should be at the top of the list

Well if you like SPAM emails then dont get this

 

[TheFrag]

Well if you like SPAM emails then dont get this

Spam makes me feel loved!

 

[Captain Slug]

Not going to repeat some of the ones you all mentioned but Cloudmark's Free Spamnet should be at the top of the list

Well if you like SPAM emails then dont get this

Spam helps me excercise by forcing me to press the Delete key 90 times daily

 

[ronin1967]

Internet Explorer(love Opera, but need spell check for email)
Outlook Express(once again need that spell check)
F@H
EMIII
AllToTray(to make Outlook express run in the background)
Trillian Pro(like how it shows the previous log in the background)
Kazaa Lite & DietKaza w/lemon combination
WCPUID
MBM5
Prime95
SiSoft Sandra
PCMark2002
3DMark2001SE
FreeCell-something to do while I am not messing around with email or the forums or breaking my computer
Samurize(thanks to SlowBurn)

That's about it...

 

[Burning Phoenix]

Not listed in any special order.

Internet Explorer
Windows Explorer
Outlook Express
AOL Instant Messenger
Paint Shop Pro 7.0
CoffeeCup Editor
Media Player
CoolEdit Pro 2.0
Ws_FTP95 LE
Ad-aware
Adsubtract
MotherBoard Monitor
Nero
Seti
Folding
Weatherbug

 

[cyber mouse45]

PaintShopPro 7
PaintShopPro 5
Photoshop 6
Winzip
Bryce 5
MS Word
Win XP

And some other ones.

 

[itizme]

in this order
Anything that frag's
Anything that drives fast
F-DISK

 

[Thelemac]

AC
Trillian
Mirc
AC
browser
AC

 

[cyber mouse45]

in this order
Anything that frag's
Anything that drives fast
F-DISK

F-Disk. Haha, that's great!

 

[---X---]

F@H
Quintessential <-- Can't live without music
CDex <---------------^^^
Diskeeper Lite
Trillian
Kazaa Lite
WinRar
MBM 5

Oh, and Rivatuner

 

[NookieN]

perl
grep
cat
vim
tar
lynx


Oh guess I should throw some windows progs in too...
Winamp
Prime95
Virtualdub
Wordperfect

 

[coldmop]

10. nero
9. IIS 5
8. RealFlight G2
7. Excel
6. windows explorer
5. Unigraphics
4. IE
3. Outlook Express
2. notepad......

....... and the number one best program of all time
1. MS/SQL

 

[subconcept]

In no particular order:

Photoshop
Illustrator
Dreamweaver
Flash
Quark Xpress
Winamp
Winrar
Nero
WakeMeUp (been wakin' be up for 3 years)
F@H
Samurize
Windows Explorer (to browse all those files)
Notepad (html, cuesheets)
Sound Forge
Outlook Xpress
IE
Daemon Tools

i dunno what ekse:

I can name you a prog I hate: Cute Ftp

What ftp clients are you guys using, FlashFxp? Bulletrproof?

I hate cute cause it cant queue up folders for crap, without asking to resume, and when I add the rules so it does it automaticaly it still has problems.

 

[Oni]

I don't think I can make a list of 20 . . .

Trillian
Quintessential CD (For MP3s and such)
Internet Explorer
Eudora
Folding@Home
DUMeter
Norton Anti-Virus
eDonkey
Overnet
WinMX
Kazaa Lite
AudioGnome
RealVNC
Ad Aware
Nero
CloneCD
WinDVD
Paint Shop Pro
WordPerfect Office
RageTweak
WinRAR
WinACE (handles all kinds of compression, but doesn't do RAR right)

I think that's it . . . . Damn, I did list over 20.

 

[progamer]

bonzi buddy
gator
kazaa

yeah baby!

jeff

Uhhhh....

You're kidding, right?

 

[ArBiTaL 24]

I can make them do whatever I want...

Captain slug- How do u make those smilies?

top progs (in no real order):

* Notepad
* officeXP prof
* Norton internet security 2003
* popup stopper
* ad-aware
* kazaa
* limewire
* download accelerator
* winzip/winrar/winzip self extractor
* nero burning rom
* media player/real one player
* paint/calc for little jobs
* axeman
* Flash MX

Actually, this is more like a list of my progz rather than my top 20 recommended, but what the hell