your top five windows applications

[karellen]

mine's, in no particular order:
dreamweaver
yahoo messenger
google desktop
office 2007 (:D)
paint.net

[irw]

OpenOffice
Firefox
Thunderbird
IrfanView
MS Money :( (but I am planing on ditching it,when I get the time ...)

[igknighted]

Aside from games (CS:S, AoE II/III and the EA Sports series top the list):

1) Trillian (chat client like gaim... but better)

2) Alcohol 120%... not quite the burning software that K3B is, but great for creating disk images and mounting ISO files so windows thought the real CD was loaded.

3) MathCAD... wow, what a program.

4) AutoDesk Inventor... I don't own it, but we have it at school and its awesome. I haven't used SolidWorks but I hear great things about it as well.

5) Notepad ++ and SciTE because everyone needs a good editor for programming.

[darksong]

1. Windows Media Player
2. Windows Live messenger
3. FireFox cause IE7 is a joke
4. Guildwars
5. ------------------

[ricardisimo]

X-News (great with enormous binaries groups)
IrfanView (the best in any OS)
Winamp
Oxford Concise Duden/Hachette/RAE combined Eng-German/Eng-French/Eng-Spanish Dictionary
Works Calendar (if only because no one else will let you enter dates before, say, 1975)

Nero 5.0 gets honorable mention. Don't like any version since then, though.

[dracomordag]

Finale 2006
Foobar2000
Adobe Audition
Firefox
Word

[stijngysemans]

-propellerhead reason
-iview media pro
-macromedia flash
-adobe photoshop
-visual studio .net 2005

[moore.bryan]

in no particular order...

notepad++ (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/notepad-plus/npp.4.0.2.Installer.exe?modtime=1171587644&big_mirror=0)
sylpheed (http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylpheed/win32/Sylpheed-2.3.1-win32_setup.exe)
k-meleon (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kmeleon/K-Meleon1.02.exe?download)
keepass (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/keepass/KeePass-1.06-Setup.exe?modtime=1160853833&big_mirror=0)
filezilla (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/filezilla/FileZilla_3.0.0-beta6_win32-setup.exe?modtime=1171913321&big_mirror=0)

[afljafa]

Remote desktop
Firefox
Outlook
Myob
Putty

[Rhubarb]

Firefox
Filezilla
GIMP
Foobar2000 <-- Free, but closed source
OpenOffice.org / Abiword / Gnumeric

[Techn101]

1) FileZilla (Great that version 3 runs on BSD/Linux too)
2) uTorrent
3) Winamp
4) CygWin
5) Notepad2

[ShareBuntu]

(1) Adobe Photoshop CS3
(2) Microsoft Office 2007
(3) Microsoft Visio 2007
(4) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
(5) Games

[SpikeyB]

Deep Freeze
MS Office
Maxthon
Golden section notes
CDex

[frequenicity]

Foobar2000
Reason 3.0
Bulletproof FTP Server
Adobe Audition
Firefox

[Luuseens]

Adobe Photoshop
Opera
Notepad :D
Revconnect
TheBat!

ooh, ooh, and Windows Vista voice recognition also rocks, recognising "Vista" as "f*ck" :D

[AndrewBarber]

I don't tend to spend much time on MS Windows I am happy to say. So I don't have a fav applications list bar; Firefox and Putty

[floke]

shutdown

[LookTJ]

Firefox
OpenOffice
Thunderbird
Exodus
Clamwin

(I ditched Microsoft Windows though)

[MethodOne]

Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox) (you know what it is)
Winamp (http://www.winamp.com) (sound player. MP3 ripping and fast burning cost money)
PuTTY (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/)(telnet/SSH client)
CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com)(cleans cache for popular applications)
Console Classix (http://www.consoleclassix.com)(loads select game ROMs from author's server into RAM and plays them in special builds of mostly open-source emulators. Requires a paid subscription to use all features.)

[FuturePilot]

1. Firefox FTW!
2. Gimp
3. Open Office
4. Winamp
5. regedit:lolflag:

[ubuntu27]

shutdown

:lolflag: Windows best feature: "Shutdown" and "Restart" (so you could choose other OS)

Well, not my TOP FIVE. But this is almost all the apps I have instaleld in my Windows partition which I use.
My selections are:

OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/)

Notepad2 (http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html)

Foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org/) - Closed Source free Music Player.

Alvaro's Messenger (aka aMSN) (http://amsn-project.net/index.php)

CD BurnerXP Pro (http://www.cdburnerxp.se/)

CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/) - Delates traces of you from your computer.

Combined Community Codec Pack (http://www.cccp-project.net/) - Collection of Multimedia Codecs.

GIMP (http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/)

GimpShop (http://www.gimpshop.com/)

Easy CD-DA Extractor (http://www.poikosoft.com/)

FrostWire (http://www.frostwire.com/)

Google Talk (http://www.google.com/talk/)

AVG Antivirus (http://free.grisoft.com/)

IZArc (http://www.izarc.org/)

Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/)

SpyWare Blaster (http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html)

[derjames]

(1) Firefox
(2) VirtualDJ
(3) Paint
(4) VMware
(5) COMSOL Multiphysics
(6) Excel
(7) yplay
(eight) Inkscape
(9) Blender
(10) Lyx/LaTeX
(11) Skype
(12) Windows Search
(13) Tux Racer
(14) Notepad

[Eddie Wilson]

1ClickDvdCopy
AnyDvd

Thats all thats any good except for playing games.

Eddie

[rsambuca]

Photoshop CS2 - very powerful tool
Skype for Windows - best video quality I have found
utorrent - small, efficient, easy to configure

All my other favorites are cross-platform, ie OpenOffice, gimp, VLC, Firefox, etc.

[RudolfMDLT]

Nero Recode
DirectX
Net Send - commandline tool
RoboCopy
SpyBot search and destroy.

[brennydoogles]

1. Call of Duty
2. Call of Duty: United Offensive (lol)
3. Firefox
4. Trillian
5. Picasa

[manish_sinha]

1) Firefox 2
2) Dreamweaver 8 (Am in web programming for years)
3) Gtalk
4) PhotoShop CS2
5) Notepad (Due to simplicity)


Intel Core Solo 512MB DDR2 RAM, 60GB HDD, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

[fuscia]

mine sweep
hijackthis
notepad
hammerhead (free drum program)
regedit

[Praxicoide]

(1) Firefox
(10) Lyx/LaTeX


I could never get this to open.

[Majorix]

PowerISO
WinRAR
Windows Media Player
Live Messenger
utorrent

[mech7]

Photoshop
Dreamweaver
Z-Brush
Silo
Mudbox


...............

Photoshop is most important it sucks so much that it is not on linux :(

[enopepsoo]

The only app I have ever missed is slickrun. I think that I could probably get something like qonsole to work similarly. Maybe I will give that a go now . . .

[Zeroangel]

Photoshop 7 (Even a version this old beats GIMP hands-down)
Winamp 5
Nero Burning ROM
XnView
OpenOffice

[hobieone]

everquest 2
firefox
nero
ms flightsimulator
ventrilo

if it wasn't for the fact my guild in everquest 2 using ventrilo and my addiction to everquest 2
i would have ditched windows awhile ago mainly dual boot myself

[jr.gotti]

cygwin
photoshop
cinema4d
rhino3d
maya

[Roberticus]

- Firefox
- Winamp (Can't live without it)
- Live Messenger (One reason why I don't switch over to ubuntu, no IM program comes even near the look and usability of LiveMess, I love it)
- MixVibes
- Gaaaaameessssss... (another reason not porting over..)
Bonus: openoffice, gimp

+ Terragen and Vue 5

[graphius]

I have been trying to use Ubuntu as much as possible. In fact I use it almost exclusively on my laptop, but the reasons I have to keep windows (in no particular order)
1) Photoshop. Nothing touches this, not Gimp nor anything else I have found. Lightzone is very interesting, but it works much better in windows than linux (even though the linux version is free). And it is still an addition to, not a replacement for Photoshop.
2) Illustrator. Inkscape looks very promising, but I have a lot of files in .ai format that cannot be opened in any other program.
3) ACDSee. or any photo management program. KPhotoAlbum was close, but still not quite there. Likewise, Photo Organizer web based management is close, but not quite what I am looking for.
3a) a file viewer that supports RAW, mind you windows is not great here either, but Faststone (http://www.faststone.org) is pretty good.
4) Printers. Good photo printer drivers are just not avialable for linux. for documents, Linux is great.
5) Networking. OK, it is not a program per se, but I just can't get the hang of networking in linux. it always seems kludgy. yes I have created a mount point in fstab for my server, but many native linux programs don't seem to like working over a network. PS my server is running SME linux.
6) colour management. With hardware measurement. I realize this is largely a driver issue, but I cannot use my spider in Linux.

I do however like the pace at which Linux runs. I am teaching my kids to use Ubuntu, because I believe when they grow up, they will have to know Linux. I am not sure of the future of Microsoft.
I think what Linux needs (for me personally anyway) is more artists who know programing. If I had to set up a new system, and I had unlimited funds, I would have to go Mac, with MS as second choice. As it is I have too much invested in XP to switch for marginal gain.

[tgm4883]

vmware workstation, without it, windows wouldn't even run :)

[Xenogis]

AutoIt
Workspace switcher powertoy
Firefox
Litestep
uxtheme.dll patcher (can't stand the default themes)

[bigee1212]

foobar2000
ashampoo
opera (linux version sucks IMO compared to windows version)
objectdock or rocketdock
and of course photoshop

[Chrisj303]

Ableton live 6
Pro-Tools
Sony Soundforge
Reason 3
Arkaos VJ 3.6

[talkin]

Miranda
Winamp
MS VS .Net ( i have to use it :(( )
Notepad++ (i just like it :)) )
Download Master (the best for my needs)

[M$LOL]

AnyDVD
AnyDVD
AnyDVD
AnyDVD
AnyDVD.

[The Joe]

Worst to best:
1. Windows Media Player
2. mIRC
3. Any game
4. Limewire
5. Firefox

[seshomaru samma]

1. Ziguang pinyin - Chinese input system , superior to Ubuntu's SCIM
2. MSN
3. Skype
4. Bit comet
5. MS Word (you can write top to bottom in Chinese!)