The MUST-HAVE:s Applications, Utilities and Tools

[userofcomputer]

What are the best Applications, Utilities and Tools out there?

System Monitoring
-Everest?
-or Sandra Lite?

Audio and Video Playback
-A lot of stuff here, what do you use? (RealPlayer, WinAmp, Media Player, MusicMatch, QuickTime, DivX Player...)

Filecompression
-7-Zip can handle it all, right?

nVIDIA GeForce Utilities
-Official nVIDIA Tuner?
-or RivaTuner?

Other handy applications?

Please Help Me

EDIT:
Cleaners
-CCleaner?

WinXP Tweaking Utilities (Are they needed?)
-?

 

[banksh0t]

for WinXP tweaks... check out Tweak UI... pretty simple but works wonders.

 

[BW86]

CCleaner
Spybot
SpywareBlaster
Ad-Aware
Firefox
WinRAR
AntiVir
Kerio v215
Real + Quicktime Alternative

....to name a few

 

[episodic]

xchat > * IRC Clients. . .

http://www.silverex.org/

 

[meelk]

real alternative, quicktime, itunes, videolan, daemon tools, filedate, filezilla, firefox, exif viewer, hijackthis, hjsplit, mirc, newsleecher, quickpar, smartpar, winiso, winimage, alcohol 120, winrar and nero.

 

[nweaver]

vim, iptables, apt-get, emerge, lynx, ethereal/tcpdump

and the number 1 is.....

PERL!!!

 

[VIAN]

Windows Media Play (compatible with almost everything) and Quicktime (Online stuff) a must.

Driver Cleaner Pro for getting out those nasty driver poop trails.

FRAPs helps count your framerates.

Divx codec to play divx coded movies.

Adobe Acrobat Reader for reading PDfs.

 

[dnuggett]

Google Desktop, indespensible when you work with a ton of documents.