what's your top 3 favorite windows apps?

[Pardus]

Besides windows emulators/vmware and open office type suites, what would you say are your top 3 free or paid windows based applications that are a must have for any pc?

For me it would be Easeus Todo Backup Free Edtiion, CCleaner & Notepad ++

Feel free to post more than 3 if you like.

Thanks for your time.

 

[lxskllr]

Foobar2000
VLC
Firefox(or its forks)

 

[code65536]

Firefox
Notepad2 (with code folding)
VLC

 

[MrColin]

Free:
PuTTY
Thunderbird
Foobar2000

Paid:
Sublime Text
WinRar
VMWare Workstation

 

[Kaido]

Keynote NF
VLC
Macrium Reflect

 

[nickbits]

chrome
visual studio
amebox

 

[PliotronX]

Chrome, Word, and uTorrent.

 

[gitano]

uTorrent version 2.2.1
Firefox
KeePass

 

[gevorg]

Sandboxie

 

[Towermax]

- Palemoon
- CCleaner
- Irfanview

 

[xSauronx]

dropbox
onenote
chrome

/also love notepad++

 

[ultimatebob]

Google Chrome, InSSIDer, and WinSCP (with PuTTY) are probably my faves right now.

Notepad++ and TortoiseSVN are awesome as well, as is VLC. I've also learned to like Excel as well, mostly because it performs better than it's open source counterparts.

 

[balloonshark]

Sandboxie
Palemoon / Firefox
Keepass

 

[McWatt]

Irfanview
Adobe Premiere
Steam

 

[Chapbass]

dropbox
onenote
chrome

/also love notepad++

Good call on Dropbox. I don't use it all the time but good lord is it easy.


I'd go 7-zip, daemon tools (no longer needed with win8), and filezilla.

If we can include windows builtin apps, then Snipping Tool moves to #1.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Firefox
Macrium Reflect
Thunderbird

 

[Charlie98]

AnyDVD HD (couldn't live without it...,) Acronis (saved my acorns a few weeks ago...,) CrystalDisk.

 

[corkyg]

IE11; Eudora Pro; MS Money

 

[Berliner]

Foobar2000
VLC

Foobar AND VLC in the top 3? That's almost excessive

If I have to choose between the two, I'd go for VLC.

And I would also add Firefox as well and 7-zip.

For paid apps, it's Lightroom, Total Commander and... I don't think I use more

 

[MountainKing]

So many have to use apps that I need and are de-facto installed. Amongst others 7-zip, dropbox, truecrypt and countless others.
I have chosen 3 apps that I would not be able to use my pc without for the sake of this post.
1) Chrome has to be one. IE is absolutely annoying. Very laggy interface.
2) faststone image viewer. I tend to view many images and make fast 'retouches'. The default windows image handler is absolutely even more horrible than IE in its category.
3) utorrent: Windows does not ship with a torrent handling software. Absolutely need this one

 

[Ganiy]

Among all required, there are three:

1). Firefox

2). Word

3). Skype

 

[lxskllr]

Foobar AND VLC in the top 3? That's almost excessive

Yea, I know. It's hard narrowing things down to three though. I have a bunch of stuff I consider essential. I suppose I'd swap Foobar for 7Zip, but I wouldn't be happy about it. VLC would give me the extra codecs, and it can be used for music, though it isn't my preference.

 

[IGemini]

Firefox
Mediaplayer HomeCinema
7zip

Plenty more I could list.

 

[Dude111]

MyIE2 - Free
Regseeker - Free
Process Explorer (COMES IN QUITE HANDY! (Kill process TREE,etc)) - Free


These are only 3,i have many more i love!

 

[geekbear]

Chrome
Advanced SystemCare
Skype