Software

Desktop

• BBlean - alternative windows shell
• Free Launch Bar - free Explorer toolbar add-on
• ClearLooks for WinXP theme
• Tango Patcher - Tango icons for WinXP

System

• FAR - File Manager
• nnCron - advanced scheduler, scripting tool and automation manager
• GNUWin32 - ported GNU (Unix) utilities
• 7-Zip - archiver with full range format support
• JkDefrag - a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows. Can be run as screensaver (opensource)

Editor

• Vim
• FAR with Colorer, True Template, Block Processor plugins

Browser

• Opera
• Chrome
• wget - CLI web downloader
• Orbit Downloader

Mail

• Google Mail
• Opera
• FAR with FarMail plugin

RSS

• Opera
• Google Reader

Audio Player

• XMPlay - with LunaFamfam skin
• madplay - CLI MP3 opensource player
• Apollo - I need AAC format support!
• foobar2000

Video Player

• MPlayer - CLI linux-port multimedia player
• Light Alloy

IM

• Miranda - ICQ/Jabber/AIM/MSN Messenger
• Google Talk - Jabber with voice

FTP Client

• FAR with FTP plugin
• wget - CLI web downloader

P2P Client

• Shareaza
• ApexDC++

Graphics

• ACDSee v3.1 (see at oldapps.com)
• PaintShop v7.0 (see at oldapps.com)

CD Burning

• cdrtools (cdrecord + mkisofs) - CLI tools (get here)
• CreateCD - CLI Windows CD Recording utility by Alex Feinman
• Small CD-Writer

Office

• Google Calendar
• Acrobat Reader v5.0 (see at oldapps.com)
• Sumatra PDF - slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows.
• WinDjView - Free (opensource) DjVu viewer