Must have Windows utilities

1. Adobe Reader - All your PDF collection fits here.

2. Messenger Plus - Add amazing features to your MSN.
www.msgplus.net

3. Multi MSN - Users with multiple MSN ids can use them all at one time.

4. PDFpagemaker - Instead of making your Microsoft Doc read only, Use Pdf maker.

5. Windows Power toys
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

6. Google Picasa 3

7. Google Earth

8. Lupas Rename 2000v5 - swiss-army knife file renamer, powerful, reliable and free

rename.lupasfreeware.org

9. Process Explorer - Awesome free utils, Mark Russinovich; formerly Sysinternals, bought by Microsoft!; still free!

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx

also Filemon, Diskmon, TCPView, Regmon, and many other very handy utlities

10. K-Lite Mega Codec Pack - every codec + kitchen sink; Media Player Classic, Real Alternative, QT Lite

http://www.codecguide.com/about_kl.htm

11. NetTransport - for complex stream capture; only for geeks, though

http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm

12. DaemonTools - .iso mounter - Version 3.47!, or [ ] uncheck adware on install of newer versions

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/index.php?

13. MagicISO

14. Spybot www.safer-networking.org/

15. Winace - For all your compressed formats. Get it from any warez tracker.

16. Winamp - Winamp.com

17. Flash Player

18. TrueCrypt 6.

19. VLC Media Player (videolan.org)

20. Google Chrome Browser - Best browser out there