7 Zip : Never use winzip again this little program kicks ass and is integrated onto your right mouse button for easy access to those .zip and .rar files and the best of all it's free.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/7-Zip/3000-2250_4-10045185.html?tag=mncol;1Spybot : A nice program to rid your computer and protect it from malware and spyware, I use it along with my antivirus, also features a file shredder and makeshift msconfig features.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html?tag=mncol;1VLC Media Player : The best video player in the world as far as I'm concerned, If this can't play your audio or video codec then virtually nothing will, It's only a few Mb's in size as well.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-13632_4-10267151.html?tag=mncol;2KMPlayer : Also a nice little video player, it has features that allow to capture frames and has hdtv streaming capabilities, if I'm not using VLC Media Player then I'm using KMPlayer.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/KMPlayer/3000-13632_4-10659939.html?tag=mncol;1AVG Free : If you're really afraid that you'll get a virus and want some kind of realtime protection from them then AVG Free is worthwhile being free, I rather pay for a good one though.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/KMPlayer/3000-13632_4-10659939.html?tag=mncol;1Youtube Downloader : If there is a video or a song on youtube that you just can't find anywhere else and you must have it, then this is a nice little program which downloads and converts video.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Downloader/3000-2071_4-10647340.htmlCCleaner : Having problems with your registry leaving things behind or maybe something was left behind when you upgraded or reverted to a different driver for your GPU this works good.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/UTorrent or Vuze : Want to download as fast as your connection will allow you to, get things through torrent files with either U Torrent or Vuze and you will, just get this and look up torrents.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/uTorrent/3000-2196_4-10528327.html -
http://download.cnet.com/Vuze/3000-2196_4-10295479.html?tag=mncol;1PeerBlock : This little program right here allows you to download things via UTorrent or Vuze and not let your IP be tracked, it blocks about 8 million known anti p2p trackers with its blacklist and counting.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/PeerBlock/3000-10435_4-75328692.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody;5dSteam : Even if you don't buy anything off of Steam it works great for keeping track of you're friend playing PC games and lets you text or chat with them while they are playing, anyone who plays PC should have it.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/Steam/3000-2121_4-97526.html?tag=mncol;5Fraps : Fraps is awesome, it well let you benchmark your PC games allowing you to view how many frames you get and it can capture pictures and video from them as well in high quality, a montage makers best friend.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/Fraps/3000-2121_4-10316793.html?tag=mncol;1Firefox : I personally like this the most out of all the web browsers that I've tried, It seems faster than internet explorer does and the new version coming out is suppose to be super fast, if you haven't tried it check it out.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/mozilla-firefox/Power ISO : Have an ISO file that you don't want to have to burn to a disc in order to access or play a game off of, check this out it's a virtual CD/DVD rom drive that runs on your PC and tricks the ISO into thinking it's a CD/DVD drive.
Download link : http://download.cnet.com/PowerISO/3000-2646_4-10439118.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody;4d