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CRASH andor BURN:
Spybot Search & Destroy

5thWheel:

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^^^Trashed my brothers laptop, I had to dive into the registry to repair the damage (would not uninstall properly).  This was about a year ago, however, maybe it has improved.  I use free version of adaware (not personally, but have cleaned plenty of ppls pcs with it), as usual, not sure if it gets everything but it has yet to do damage in my experience.

Se7en:
Yeah, spybot has given me problems too. Adaware has been nothing but great mind you. That said, i just have no need for any spyware protection ever since i migrated to Firefox.

est:
i agree with a lot of what has been suggested already!  this is pretty good stuff.  my re-install checklist usually goes something like:

the latest versions of:
[*]ACDSee - really nifty image viewer/editor.[*]Acrobat Reader - for reading PDFs[*]Ad-Aware - good spyware detection/removal tool[*]DiVX codecs - for playback of DiVX video files[*]Firefox - best browser for my needs[*]Flashget - multi-part download handler, can resume downloads, etc[*]FreePDF XP - for writing pdfs[*]iTunes - mostly for music sorting a jukeboxing, WinAmp is my default player[*]Mcafee virus scanner - light, no-nonsense, will-not-take-over-your-PC kind of virus scanner[*]MS Office - document editing, etc.  free alternative: Open Office[*]Photoshop - for image editing.  free alternative: the GIMP[*]Quicktime - for playing Apple Quicktime files (this is installed with iTunes, but if you don't want that but want to play .mov files you'll need this)[*]Real Alternative - a light, no-nonsense player for RealMedia files[*]SmartFTP - just the FTP client that i use, maybe you can find something better if you look for what you need[*]Winamp - a better simple mp3 player than Windows Media & iTunes[*]Winrar - for opening rar & arj files[*]Winzip - because i don't like the WinXP zip interface[*]XViD codecs - for playing back XViD encoded video files[/list:u]

SpacemanSpiff:

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This might be what you've been looking for, though I'm not sure.

Apart from that, I recomend trying both Firefox and Opera and see what you like better. I prefer Opera because I find Firefox not very handy when you have more than 35 tabs open at once. Opera can handle that better.

Virus scanner wise, the best scanner out there (if you're willing to pay for it) is Kaspersky. They typically react very fast and their scanning engine is the best one out there, when it comes to results.
Don't ever touch Symantec, their products suck.

By the way, if you get MPlayer (I linked it above) you don't need to install any codecs at all. It play everything right out of the box.

In case you ever need any SSH stuff, PuTTY and WinSCP3 are the way to go.
As for the WinAmp series, I recommend the WinAmp2.x series, everything afterwards sucked, if you ask me.
And unless you want to use warez or are rich, GIMP is a very good option. The GUI is bearable now and it has tons of features. Toy with it for a while and you'll be able to use it very well and it's free too.

E-Mail wise: Thunderbird. It's awesome.
IRC: XChat.

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