A working list of desktop programs in daily use, grouped by job, with AutoRuns 10.06 (2010-11-29) and the other pinned names and URLs.
Essentials were marked in bold in the original list. This was meant to go into a spreadsheet.
Programming
IDE
Microsoft Visual Studio.
NetBeans.
SDK
WIX — Windows Installation Toolkit.
nVidia CUDA.
nVidia CG.
Text editor
Notepad++.
HexEditor.
Reverse
Process Explorer.
Process Hacker.
AutoRuns
Microsoft | SysInternals.
10.06.
November 29, 2010.
Free.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Autoruns.zip
What’s Running.
Archivers
7-Zip.
WinRAR.
Disc
Astro Burn.
Daemon Tools.
Security
HijackThis.
SandBoxie.
Image editing
Adobe Photoshop.
GIMP.
Image viewers
Google Picasa.
IrfanVie.
Video editing
Adobe Premiere.
DaVinci Resolve.
Audio editing
Sony SoundForge.
Fruity Loops.
3D editors
Maya.
3DS Max.
Poser.
Communications
Google Talk.
Facebook Messenger.
Windows Live Messenger.
Yahoo Messenger.
Skype.
Downloaders
FDM
Free Download Manager.
uTorrent.
Miro.
RealPlayer
Flash Video download.
Entertainment
VLC.
iTunes.
nVidia PureVideo.
LiveStation.
Codec
AC3.
Halli Media Splitter.
Matrakosa.
XIPH.org.
Utilities
Tunatic.
Viewers
Microsoft Word Viewer.
Microsoft Excel Viewer.
Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer.
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Guitar
Guitar Rig.
Maps
Google Earth.
Web apps
FaceBook.
Google Maps.
Google Docs.
Gmail.
Browsers
Google Chrome.
Opera.
Remote
Synergy.
Microsoft Shared View.
Team Viewer.
Ultra VNC.
Office
Microsoft Office.
DOS
DOS Box.
OCR
ABBYY Soft FineReader.
Google Tesseract.
Recovery
Runtime Software GetDataBack.
Active Partition Recovery.
Screen capture
Microsoft Expression Encoder.
SnagIt.
Scripters
AutoHKey.
Sikulli.
AutoIt3.
Firewall
ZoneAlarm.
Windows Firewall Notifier
By Wokhan.
http://wokhan.online.fr
Linux
Cygwin.
Alternative input
Dragon Naturally Speaking.
