'Essential' XP apps for your Lenovo S10

[MCA]

My list:

1. Boxee
2. CCCP
3. Windows Home Server Connect
4. Neotrace
5. Evernote
6. Chrome
7. Lotus Symphony - An Open Office Distro
8. Skype - Not the new version(hate the new UI)
9. Dropbox
10. Blu - http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/

This is in no particular order.

[RudyRedSox]

AVG Anti-virus Free
Trillian
Zune Software
Microsoft Office 2007 (Home & Student)
LiveMesh
Windows Live Mail
Windows Live Photo Gallery
IE 8
IE7Pro
BizForm Bar
Powertoys for Windows XP

[edit] Windows Defender

[roy8846]

Foxit Reader Pro
Gom Player http://www.gomlab.com/eng/GMP_download.html
Utorrent
Damn NFO Viewer
Sisoft Sandra
Winrar

[BrendaEM]

For windows, I often use:
Comodo Firewall

Openoffice
Thunderbird Shredder Beta with Lightning add-on (both are optimized for small screens)
PSPAD and Bluefish for windows

Ultimate Defrag Freeware Version (Back it up first anyway)
Freebyte Backup
FreeFileSync (It's a windows briefcase, but it doesn't crash)
Regclean (Backup first)

Inkscape
Stellarium
Softi Free OCR
Ap Guitar Tuner and Powertab
SMPlayer - Plays anything
Audacity

[Caleo]

Pidgin (chatting application, I use it for MSN/AIM)
X-chat (another chatting application, IRC this time(the BEST irc client imo))
Firefox (with adblock & some other essential addons... please, for the love of god, don't use internet explorer! It's the best way to get your computer raped by malware.. basically about as awesome as bending over arse-naked in prison)
K-Lite codec pack (including Media Player Classic)
Winamp + VolumeLogic plugin (VolumeLogic was an awesome audio plugin made by plantronics, it makes your music sound so much better. Unfortunately they stopped making it, but the old version I have still works for winamp )
uTorrent/Newsleecher (I use my laptop as a low-power 24/7 platform for downloading and chat-logging so I can turn my beast of a desktop off and save money on power)
Notepad++ (much better than standard notepad)
Netstumbler (gotta catch em all... (the wifi APs))
CCleaner (keeps it nice and tidy)
Auslogics Disk Defrag (A nice light/free defragger that I believe works better than most everything else, even the paid softwares)
Games (emulators+roms but also small games like Peggle, bejeweled, etc)

[The Phil]

My list:

1. Avast!
2. iTunes
3. MS Office '03 (powerpoint, outlook, word, excel)
4. Picasa
5. ComicSync
6. Dreamweaver 8
7. Fireworks 8
8. Spotify

[Sahdow]

7zip
CCC (combined community codec)
vlc
firefox
chrome
launchy
cute pdf writer
pidgin
skype, aim, yahoo, and msn, though i disable automatic start up on these, since i rarely use skype, and i'll use the official im app if i need to do something like webcam or chat.
openoffice, though i do have ms office 2k3 and 2k7 installed as well
gimp
utorrent
dexrex extensions
twofingerscroll
itunes

[lano]

AVG 8.5 Free
ffdshow (for most videos in media player)
VLC (for everything else)
Spybot
Spyware Blaster
WinRAR demo
Office 2007 Ultimate (For $75, legit. I love being a Uni student in Australia! )
Firefox
Irfanview
Acrobat Reader 5 (it reads PDF's, but is much faster than Version 6 + up)
CutePDF printer

[SilverZero]

I loaded up with the usuals, like CCleaner, ThreatFire, Foxit Reader (Adobe replacement), etc. Now that I have two notebooks/netbooks I'm finding the Foxmarks Firefox add-on essential for keeping my bookmarks in sync. I'm also using Syncplicity for syncing and backup. I'd been using Mozy on my one-and-only laptop, but now that I have the S10 it's nice to auto-sync my files. Seems to be working as promised.

+1

FoxMarks (now XMarks) is also great for multi-booting, so you can keep your bookmarks all uniform and synced between different OSes.

[Caleo]

I loaded up with the usuals, like CCleaner, ThreatFire, Foxit Reader (Adobe replacement), etc. Now that I have two notebooks/netbooks I'm finding the Foxmarks Firefox add-on essential for keeping my bookmarks in sync. I'm also using Syncplicity for syncing and backup. I'd been using Mozy on my one-and-only laptop, but now that I have the S10 it's nice to auto-sync my files. Seems to be working as promised.

+1

FoxMarks (now XMarks) is also great for multi-booting, so you can keep your bookmarks all uniform and synced between different OSes.

I just do an occasional copy of my entire firefox profile from my desktop to my laptop.. that way it transfers all my cookies, saved passwords, bookmarks, extensions, etc.