Stellarium! its just very cool. And a free download can be found here:

It is a planetarium program that shows exactly what you would see when you look up at the stars.

I also like VLC media player a lot!

ms excel 2003
1. great for creating books, presentations.
2. worlds best data converter

notepad
short of a hex editor, view anything.

paint shop pro v7
i have v11 too, but 7 is quicker

atf cleaner
because i fear anything that touches the registry

fire fox browser

stellarium, open office, vlc also cool!
vlc seems to call home a bit much, however...

What do you mean by that ?

see this, amongst others.

http://www.prevx.com/filenames/24091...0/VLC.EXE.html

Auto CAD (release 12)
Easy to use and understand.

Side note: If i ever get into building homes this is the program and release i would want. Not sure if I will still be able to get useable release 12 at this point in time

For easy 3d design programs you can't go past the free Google Sketchup

http://sketchup.google.com/

I also really like ashampoo CD and DVD burner, there is a free version wich is still quite good.

Dreamweaver and Photoshop
is the favorite software to me because i am a designer so i am intreset those software