What utilities do you use?

[ellmo]

Well, we have a topic about our desktops, that - believe it or not - say a lot about ourselves. We can see who likes to have more spare place on the desktop, and pays a to of attention to where the particlar icons are; and who likes to have eveyrthing within double-click range...
...but what's also interesting is what programs (utilities) do you use for various daily tasks such as wathcing videos, listening to music, browsing the net, reading e-mails, creating documents, uploading files to FTP, maintaining archives, burning CDs... and lot's of others...

Here's what I can think about for now:
Browser: Opera 8.0 (9.0 includes Bit Torrent which sucks badly)
e-mail: Thunderbird
FTP / copying / moving files: Total Commander
Bit torrent: Bit Comet (it's is written in C++ unlike java-based Azureus, which can considerably eat up your processor/RAM when working for a long periods)
Peer To Peer: eMule
Music / Video: Zoom Player (with CCCP - Combined community Codec Pack)
DVD: ASUSDVD (delivered with my laptop, it roxors boxors)
Video Capture: Fraps (doooh!)
Video / Audio compression, cutting and merging: Sony Vegas Studio 6.0
Graphic editor: Paint Shop Pro X
CD / DVD burning: Ashampoo 5 / Nero Burning Rom
Integrated development environment or IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (MVS 8, in short)
*messenger: miranda IM
*IRC: Opera build-in IRC client

and now comes the maintenance part:
anti Virus: dr. Web
Registry maintenance: Registry Mechanic (totally awesome)
adware / spybot removal: Spybot Search & Destroy / Ad-Aware personal
defragmentation: Diskeeper Lite

EDIT: added messenger and IRC utils.

[wildweasel]

Browser: Mozilla Firefox, version 1.5.0.whateversthelatest
email: GMail
FTP: FileZilla
File Manager: xplorer2 Lite
BitTorrent: uTorrent
P2P: Limewire
Music: Winamp for general listening, Foobar2000 for infinite looping, Modplug and GXSCC for the rest
DVD/Video: Media Player Classic
Video Capture: Fraps
Graphics: Paint Shop Pro X, Animation Shop 3
DVD Burner: Nero Burning Rom and Winamp
Anti-Virus: Grisoft AVG Free
Adware: Ad-Aware
Instant Messenger: Gaim and Google Talk
IRC: mIRC
Doom Utils: ZDL 3 and XWE
Launcher: KwikStrip
Audio Editing: Cool Edit Pro 2.1 (I'd upgrade to Audition but it's less stable)

[TheDarkArchon]

Browser: FF 1.5.0.7
Email: GMail or my University email
FTP: Filezilla
File Manager: Explorer
BitTorrent: None
P2P: None
Music: Winamp/Modplug Player
Video: Winamp
Video Capture: None
Graphics Editing: The GIMP 2.1.somethingorother
Burner: Nero
AV: Nortons (Hey, it was preinstalled and it isn't broken)
Adware: Spybot - S&D
IM: AIM and Google Talk
IRC: mIRC
Doom: SLumpED, XWE and Doom Builder
Launcher: KwikStrip
Audio editing: Audacity.

[BlazingPhoenix]

Browser: FireFox(latest)
Email: Outlook Express
FTP: FireFTP
File Manager: Huh?
P2P: eMule and Ares
Music: WMP(I don't care what you say!!)
Video: WMP(Same with above!!)
Video Capture: FRAPS
Graphics Editing:(mostly resizing stuff..)Irfanview
Burner: ...any good ones?
Adware: Spybot, Ad-Aware
IM: MSN Messnger
IRC: mIRC
Doom: SlumpED, Doom Builder, ZDL
Audio Editing: Audacity

[Shinjanji]

Browser: Firefox 1.5.0.7
EMail: GMail
FTP: FileZilla
P2P: LimeWire
BitTorrent: Yet Another BitTorrent Client (ABC)
Music: Winamp
Video: Media Player Classic
Graphics Editing: Photoshop CS2
CD/DVD Writing: Easy CD/DVD Creator 6, Alcohol 120%, and iTunes
Virus: AVG Free
Adware: AdAware and Spybot S&D
IM: MSN Messenger and Gaim
IRC: mIRC
Audio: Audacity

[ellmo]

Burner: ...any good ones?

Ashampoo is much more reliable, easy to use and I could even say - faster - than Nero Burning Rom. I have Ashampoo 5 which is an old, abandonwared version I was given free with a PC magazine.
Never fooked up a CD / DVD for me, while Nero killed a lot.

[Jimmy]

Browser: Internet Explorer 6
e-mail: Outlook Express
FTP / copying / moving files:
Bit torrent:
Peer To Peer:
Music / Video: Windows Media Player 10
DVD: PowerDVD
Video Capture: Logitech Image Studio
Video / Audio compression, cutting and merging:
Graphic editor: Paint Shop Pro 5
CD / DVD burning: Nero Burning Rom
Integrated development environment or IDE:
Messenger: Windows Live Messenger
IRC:

Anti Virus: AVG Free Edition
Registry maintenance: Registry Mechanic
Adware/Spybot Removal: Pop-up Blocker, ZoneAlarm
Defragmentation:

[grubber]

Internet: FireFox (SwiftFox), ThunderBird, gFTP, GAIM, X-Chat, MLDonkey
Programming: Bluefish
Graphics: GIMP, InkScape
Sound & Video: XMMS, MPlayer, AviDemux, K3b
Emulators: QEMU, DosEmu, Wine
GNOME & accesories
etc. (I can't remember)

[BioHazard]

Browser: Firefox plus all my nifty plugins
e-mail: Thunderbird plus my nifty plugins
FTP / copying / moving files: ftp, cp and mv
Bit torrent: Whatever "emerge bittorrent" gave me
Music / Video: XMMS and VLC with ~x86 branch codec packs
DVD: VLC
Video Capture: $ /dev/video0 > /media/vid.mpg
Graphic editor: GIMP
Development environment: SciTE, GCC and make
messenger: GAIM
IRC: X-Chat (blech)

and now comes the maintenance part:
anti Virus: Virus?
Registry maintenance: Registry?
adware / spybot removal: Common sense
defragmentation: ext3 needs no defragmentation foo! (hardly ever anyway)

[Chronoteeth]

Browser: Firefox + NoScript/google plug in
E-Mail: Thunderbird (though it doesn't matter, I can't get on the bloody thing anyways)
FTP/copy/moving: I don't remember the name, but I only really use it to upload porn onto kat's site.

Music/video: Modtracker (for tracking), XMPlay (for listening)
DVD: stock (don't watch DVDs on my PC)
Video capture: fraps
Graphic editor: mspaint, PSP 9, PS 7
DE: N/A
Messenger: Googletalk/skype/YIM/ventrilo/teamspeak
IRC: mIRC
Anti Virus: Norton (:|), never get one though
Registry: NEVER EVER EVER
Adware: Spybot
Defragment: Disk defragment?

[Paul]

Browser: Netscape 7.0 though I prefer Firefox
e-mail: Same as above..
FTP / copying / moving files: FTP Commander and FileZilla
Bit torrent: I don't use them..
Audio editing: Goldwave, Nero Wave Editor
Audio listening: Winamp 5.2
Video Viewing: Real Player (da thing), Vplayer, Quick Time
Audio encoder: DB Power Amp
Graphic editor: Paint Shop Pro 7, Animation Shop 5
3D CG: Gmax
CD / DVD burning: Nero Burning
*messenger: MiRC, ICQ 5.1
anti Virus: Norton .. 2002 (^_^)
adware / spybot removal: Ad-Aware and Autoruns
Firewall: Kerio Personal Firewall latest
Preferred TXT Editor: Notepad

Doom Utils: Doom Builder, XWE, Whacked 2

[Alter]

Browser:Mozilla firefox
e-mail:just web e-mail
FTP:Total commander
Bit torrent:ABC(This sucker eats many memory so i don't recommend it for comps with less ram)
Peer to peer:None
Music / video:Winamp for music,and BSplayer for videos
CD/DVD Burning:Nero or alcohol 120%
IRC:Mirc
Antivirus+firewall:ewido anti-malware

[jallamann]

Web browser: SeaMonkey
E-mail: SeaMonkey
IRC: SeaMonkey (until I can arse myself to installing mIRC)
FTP: explorer.exe (works for me)
Torrent: Azureus
Other P2P: none
Usenet: UseNeXT and GrabIt
Media player: Winamp / MPC / VLC (in that order if a file won't work properly with the player)
Graphics editor: Paint Shop Pro 8 on my big rig and PSP XI on my laptop
Music editor: MadTracker / Schism Tracker / Cubase SX
Sound editor: GoldWave

Anti-virus: Kaspersky Anti-Virus
Registry fucker: None. If I need to manually change anything, I'll use regedit.exe
Firewall: None
Adware / spybot removal: None. I know that there are some .exe files that shouldn't be double-clicked.
Defragmentation: I don't usually delete files, so I'll stick with Windows' integrated one.

[ellmo]

Registry fucker: None. If I need to manually change anything, I'll use regedit.exe

I'm really impressed you can understand that shitload of information that is held there. But there is an enormous portion of obsolete entries even in fresh Windows installation, that just don't really need to be there.
I too never liked programs, which would play with my registry, but Mechanic kickss some major butt. As I run it the first time it killed more than 700 problems, and to my knowledge about 400-500 are in windows since installation.

[MartinHowe]

Yeah why not:

Browser: FireFox
Email: Outlook Express
Newsgroups: Outlook Express & yProxy
FTP/Copy/Move: Windows Explorer and (if needed) FTPDrive & XXCopy
Music/Video: RealPlayer to record, WMP10 to play
DVD: WinDVD (delivered with my laptop) or RealPlayer
Graphic editor: PhotoStudio 5
Sound editor: MS Sound Recorder / Audacity
CD Burning: MS CDBurn or CDBurnerXP
IDE or IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
SW Dev: MSys, MSVC, MinGW, CygWin
Other Unixy stuff for Windows: GnuWin32, Karl Syring's UnixUtils, Elvis
Messenger: Windows Live Messenger
IRC: VIRC 2
Anti Virus: NIS 2006
Registry maintenance: Regedit
Adware/Spybots: Spybot Search & Destroy / Ad-Aware personal SE
Defragmentation: PerfectDisk 8