I just finished setting up my laptop. It's got Windows 7 Home Premium installed. The following is a list of software I installed onto my laptop:
- 7-Zip or PeaZip
Allows you to extract files from ZIP and RAR archives. - Adobe Digital Editions
An ebook reader - Adobe Reader 9.0
- Aria2 command-line downloader
- avast! Antivirus Home or ClamWin
- Barnes and Noble eReader
- Calibre e-book manager
- CDBurnerXP, ImgBurn or InfraRecorder
Free utility for burning CD's and DVD's - Code::Blocks
Free Integrated Development Environment for software programming - Dia diagram editor
- Impact Color Fax
- eMule or aMule
With *Mule client, you download files from eDonkey/Kademlia file-sharing network. - FileZilla Server and FTP Client
Free FTP server and client - FlashPlayer
- FoxyTunes for Firefox
Allows you to control music while surfing the Internet - GIMP
Helps you draw pictures and edit photographs. - GnuCash
Free accounting software - GnuPlot
plotting and graphing software - Haansoft Hangul 2007
Korean wordprocessor. More information is available here. - Halogenware Retriever
Download utility - HashCheck Shell Extension or md5deep
A tool for calculating hash values of a file to verify its integrity - IBM Lotus Symphony
Free office productivity software - Impact ColorFax Lite
Sends and receives fax. - IfoEdit
Allows you to edit DVD IFO files. - ImgBurn
a lightweight CD / DVD / HD-DVD / Blu-ray burning application - Inkscape
Lets you create and edit vector graphics. - IsoBuster
Allows you to retrieve data from ISO files. - iTunes
- Java
- JetAudio
music player - jEdit
Programmer's editor - Maxima computer algebra system
- Microsoft Office 2010
- Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Maxthon
Popular and powerful web browser - MyDefrag
FreeWare hard disk defragmenter - OpenOffice.org 3.1
Free powerful office productivity software - OpenType Font Properties Extension 2.30
- PChat
Lets you chat with friends on IRC networks. - PDFCreator
- Pidgin
Multi-protocol instant messaging software - RealPlayer
- Sancho is a graphical frontend to mldonkey p2p daemon.
- Scribus
Open-source desktop publishing software - Sigil ePub editor
- Skype
- SMplayer
Free movie player based on mplayer - Songbird music player
- TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress
Helps you to create and convert MPEG files. - Transmission-Remote-Dotnet or Transmission-Remote-GUI
Allows you to download files from bittorrent networks. Needs transmission Cygwin port. - Unikey
Helps you type Vietnamese. - VirtuaWin
A virtual desktop manager. - VLC media player
- Windows Live Essentials
Windows Messenger and Windows Live Mail - WinImage
Allows you to create and extract floppy and CD images. - wxHexeditor
- XnView
Software for viewing images and pictures - XVid codec
- Yahoo! Messenger 9
- Yahoo! Toolbar
- Yahoo! Widgets
Similar to Windows sidebar, displays useful information along the side of screen - Zimbra Desktop
Allows you to read and compose email offline. - Zoom Player
- Zumodrive
Network storage service
