I have seen a few list recently of essential applications people install on their PCs, so I thought I would put together my own list:
For web development
- Firefox, with the following extensions:
- Notepad++
- Apache
- PHP
For Windows apps:
- NUnit
- SharpDevelop
- Visual Studio
General Development:
- MySQL
- WinMerge
- Subversion with TortiseSVN
Protection:
- Spybot
- AVG
- Zone Alarm
Miscellaneous:
- FileZilla
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- YAReg for dual booters needing to access Linux partitions
- CDBurnerXP
- 7-Zip
- OpenOffice