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Mozilla Firefox

Tabbed browsing, Pop-up Blocking and Google direct search. These were the three main features that got me convinced to try it out. After five minutes using it, I also found about the Download Manager and the overall browsing speed, which was far superior to IE. So I took me a total of five minutes to decide I was never going back to another browser.
Nowadays, Firefox has only gotten better. Loads of plug-ins and extensions can be added; from weather forecasts to YouTube videos download utilities, from centralized bookmarks to web developer tools.
In conclusion, if you need a fast, reliable and highly customizable browser, you want Firefox.

PDFCreator

I’ve always had the need to distribute documents, and therefore the creation of the Portable Document Format (PDF) came as a blessing. I could distribute my documents easily without having to make the source available. The only hassle was having to buy Adobe Acrobat Writer. Even more, Acrobat Writer seemed to be getting bulkier with every new release…
PDFCreator solved my problems. Light, fast and fully featured, it gives me all the features I need. Plus, since it installs a printer driver, you can make PDFs from any program that can use a printer. It also has all the security options needed to encrypt and limit the access to the file.
Basically, all you need to create PDFs in a small efficient package.

IZarc

Compressed files are all over, so we need a tool to deal with them. IZarc is the one that works for me, basically because of the friendly Winzip alike GUI, and the support of almost fifty file types, including the widely used ZIP and RAR file types.
Some other extremely useful features include the capability to work with CD and DVD images, Windows Explorer context menu integration, support for spanned archives, file encryption and virus scanning.
You can’t go wrong with this one, believe me!

VLC Media Player

Play DVDs instantly in a breeze, without having to install third party codecs. This alone would make it a must for me. If in top of that, it adds multiple video and audio types support, low CPU load and a friendly skinnable user interface, that’s what I need to say goodbye to Windows Media Player for good.
As a bonus, VLC Media Player as the ability to stream any type of file it can read, making your PC into a media server in a breeze.
VLC Media Player: multimedia for the masses.

SyncToy

These days we can’t live without our digital possessions nearby, and the thought of losing some personal files may scare most of us to death. That’s why we have to have backups of what we find to be important information. Also, I personally need to have a way to keep my files both at work and in my home PC.
That’s where SyncToy comes in. It has a very simple way of operation, by establishing sets of “folder pairs”. One can have one folder backed up to another, synchronized or paired using a few other variations of these two. After the folder pairs have been set up, we can perform the operation with a mouse click
I, for instance, use a portable HDD that gets synchronized with both my work PC and my home PC, hence keeping the files I carry always up to date, at the click of a mouse button.

With SyncToy there will be no more excuses to losing your work for a hardware crash.