essential windows freeware & shareware
(Anti-Spyware/Malware applications in Red, Anti-Virus in Brown,
Multimedia in Violet, Firewall/Registry in Purple, Browsers in Green)

Application Name
download from this site
manufacturer's download page
2_Password
ACDSee (3.1b)
Adobe_Acrobat_Reader
AF5_Rename_Your_Files (1.1)
Asterisk_Key
Atomic_Clock_Sync (2.7.0.3)
ATF_Cleaner
Audacity
Autoit
AVG_Antivirus (User Guide)
Belarc_Advisor
BurnAware
Cool_Timer
Crucial_System_Scanner
dBpowerAMP (10.1)
Digsby
DivX
Domain_Name_Analyzer
DVD43
EasyCleaner (by ToniArts)
Exact_Audio_Copy
Exam_Diff
FastStone_Image_Viewer
febooti_fileTweak_Hash_and_CRC (msi)
Feedreader
ffdshow_tryouts
File_Renamer_Basic
Firefox
Flash
Flock
FormatFactory
Foobar2000
Foxit_PDF_Reader
Free_Registry_Defrag
GetRight (4.5b)
Gmail_Notifier
GoodSync
Google_Chrome
HandBrake
HijackThis
HttpWatch
IconForge
InstallPad (config file)
Java (JRE)
K-Meleon
Macromedia_Dreamweaver_Update (4.01)
Macromedia_Fireworks_MX_2004_Update (4.02)
Macromedia_Flash_MX_2004_Components (Action Script 2.0)
Macromedia_Freehand_MXa (11.0.2)
download from this site
Malwarebytes_Anti-Malware
Mame32
Media_Monkey
Media_Player_Classic
Microsoft_Baseline_Security_Analyzer
Microsoft_Office_2003_Service_Pack_3
Microsoft_Office_2007_Service_Pack_2
Microsoft_Office_Compatibility_Pack
Microsoft_TweakUI (2.10)
Microsoft_Windows_Defender
Microsoft_Windows_Live_Messenger
Microsoft_Windows_Vista_Service_Pack_1
Microsoft_Windows_Vista_Service_Pack_2
Microsoft_Windows_XP_Service_Pack_3 (overview)
Motherboard_Monitor
MSN_Messenger (for Windows 2000)
Nero (5.5.10.56)      
nLite
OEMLOGO (#1, #2, or #3 .ini file)
not applicable
OpenOffice
Opera  
Pando 
POPfile
Quicktime_Player
Quicky_Password_Generator (1.2)
SeaMonkey
SetBroswer (1.4)
Sisoft_Sandra
SpywareBlaster
SUPERAntiSpyware  
Sygate_Personal_Firewall (5.6 build 2808) (.msi version)
Symantec_Antivirus standalone   uninstall   
Switch_Off
Textpad
The_World_Browser
Trillian
TweakNow_RegCleaner
Ultimate_Boot_CD
uTorrent
VLC_Media_Player
wallpaper_images
WinRAR
WirelessMon   
XML_Marker
Yahoo_Desktop_Search (1.852) (expansion pack)
Yahoo_Messenger