CCleaner, GOM Player, Avira...What else?!

I just bought an AAO and started reading these forums and discovered all three of these great programs to make my system run like a dream. If anybody happens to read this and knows anymore amazing free software please post and let me know!

 

This should get you started.

Rainleander - Great Desktop Calendar
Notebook Hardware Control - Displays CPU SP, HD Info, Tempature info on desktop or Takbar
JKDefrag - Great defrag program
Daemon Tools - Great virtual drive, open BIN, CUE files.

 

OpenOffice.org - Free Office Suite (Compatible w/ M$ Office)
Foxit Reader - Free PDF Reader
A1CTL - If your fan is a little noisy (free)
7-Zip - Free archive program

 

Portable Office 2007
portable firefox 3
coreavc codec
internet explorer 8 RC (faster than firefox 3 on my AAO)
Ultramon (if you have multimonitor)
portable Adobe master collection
portable foobar 2000
portable kmplayer
portable perfect disk
Norton Antivirus Coporate (installed on other computer, and scan AAO remotely)

All of the above can be obtained for free if you know where to get it.

 

Great! I really like Openoffice and notebook hardware control. So here's one for you guys...a lite music player with an ipod manager. Any suggestions? Itunes is a resource hog but I don't know many other programs that I can use to add songs to my pod with. Winamp seems to be the best so far. Any more suggestions.

Thanks again!

 

iTunes v.6 is small, stable, no registration, and does everything I need (no video) - old version available from FileHippo. On other freebies, the best thing I've found recently is Windows Live Mesh beta, easy to set up (requires a hotmail account and .NET), syncs folders across multiple Windows PCs in real time via a 5 gig online backup, and throws in remote desktop for the heck of it. Completely changed the relationship between the netty and my main and backup computers. It's like DropBox on steroids.

UPDATE: 091007 - I've returned to DropBox after Live Mesh became unpredictable about sync time and started creating multiple identically named folders I can't explain. DropBox has only 2gig free storage and no remote desktop service, but it's simple and reliable.