I'm pretty late to the story, but I made a similar list awhile ago... I've turned it into a CD of utilities that I update every so often when I'm bored. I require everything to be free (or at least, not required to pay, such as in the case with KPF), with a preference toward F/OSS
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Included:
WindowsXP SP2* - Service Pack[1]
Kerio PF 4.2.0* - Firewall
AVG Antivirus 7* - Antivirus[2]
Windows Update* - Windows Updates
Google Toolbar* - Popup Blocker
Firefox 1.0.6* - Web Browser
Folding@Home 5.02 - Help Cure Cancer
iTunes 4.9 - Music Jukebox
iPod 2005-06-26 - iPod Drivers
VLC 0.8.2 - Media Player
Skype 1.3.0.57 - VoIP IM client
Shareaza 2.1.0.0 - Gnutella P2P
Azureus - BitTorrent P2P
Java 1.5.0.04 - Java Environment
Azureus 2.3.0.4 - Client
SafePeer 2.5.1 - BlackList
Picasa 2.0 - Photo Organizer
7-zip 4.23 - File Compression
Acrobat Reader 7.0 - PDF viewer
DeepBurner 1.6 - Nero-like Burner
FileZilla 2.2.14b - FTP Client
Thunderbird 1.0.6 - Mail/News Client
OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 - Office Suite
nvu 1.0 - WYSIWYG Web Editor
GIMP - Image Manipulation
GTK+ 2.6.8 - Environment
GIMP 2.2.8 - Editor
GIMP-help 2.0.8 - Help Files
GIMP-anim 2.0.2 - Animation
Inkscape 0.42 - Vector Drawing
pwsafe 2.11 - Password Wallet
PWGen 1.40 - Password Generator
PuTTY 0.57 - SSH Client
Bonjour 1.0 - ZeroConfig Client
AdAware SE 1.06* - Anti-Spyware[3]
SpyBot Search and Destroy 1.4* - Anti-Spyware[4]
Footnotes:
* I
/will not/ work on anybody's computer unless they have these programs installed and up to date.
[1] Windows XP SP2 may not install on a pirated version of Windows.
[2] This is the free for personal use edition available at
http://www.grisoft.com./ To use it, you must request a free key from
http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php[3]/[4] I put both programs in the collection because neither application is 100% perfect. I personally run AdAware once a month or so, and have SpyBot set to download the latest definition and check for problems once per week.
