What programs should I get?

Launchy, C Cleaner, Revo Uninstaller, Rocketdock, Tweetdeck if you have twitter, Mediamonkey/Songbird, Postbox/Thunderbird, a Codec pack, Auslogics disk defrag....

 

Rocketdock? Are you an idiot.

Get Spybot seek and destroy, change your antivirus to AVG, use firefox 3 , maybe get zonealarm as a firewall and then that's it. Then get.. whatever you want? Windows Live Messenger? Steam? mIRC?

 

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VLC, Taskbar Shuffle and of course lots of emulators. ZSNES, VBA-M, Kega Fusion and PSX Emulator would be my first choices.

 

CCCP

 

A couple of little apps that help out every-so-often:

Unlocker: Helps delete files that may be in use by another program... most of the time said program has crashed or something.
Eraser: A very nice file-shredder that works with your recycle bin.

 

HxD hex editor has come in handy and I also have to recommend Audacity not just for recording but can also clean up audio files ... I use it all the time to clean up songs I recorded with my phone at concerts ...
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Personally, I think WinRAR performs better (though I do commend the open-source nature of 7-zip). Since you're probably going to pirate everything anyways, I don't think you care about the price.
Definitely get Foxit PDF Reader, it's a very good alternative PDF reader and is a lot 'lighter' than the Adobe one.
I'd say ESET NOD32 over Avast. However, if you're going to buy your anti-virus I'd say get Kaspersky, because pirating Kaspersky is a lot harder than ESET.
You should definitely try out Chrome. It's a very light and fast browser, though it does hog up some memory occasionally.
Don't bother with Zonealarm unless you don't have a hardware firewall (do you have a router or DSL modem?). Having a software firewall can get quite annoying, especially if you like to play online games or torrent.
I'd say get VLC for media. Though it doesn't have the best performance on H.264/other HD media. I've heard good things about BSPlayer

EDIT:
What OS do you have? And 64-bit or 32-bit?
Sorry, didn't read topic description.

 

My first apps installed after a fresh format
uTorrent
7zip
CCleaner
Combined Community Codec Pack
Comodo Internet Security
Deamon Tools Lite
Defraggler
DoPDF
Foobar2000
The GIMP
InfraRecorder
Firefox
Notepad++
OpenOffice
Paint.net
Quicktime Alternative
Real Alternative
Spybot Search & Destroy
VirtualBox (with a fresh xp install again [I install questionable/or used less frequently programs in here to avoid having them affect my 'main' system ])
XnView

and ofcourse my games ^^

 

VLC is a media player. No need for codec packs or anything, it should run anything you plan on watching. For music: Foobar is a fine piece of software, but it depends on how patient you are. There's a lot of customization and tweaking you can do to make it look great and work the way you want (check out deviantart.com), but it can take a while. IMO, Winamp is better for listening to quick songs rather than a media-library like iTunes. I haven't used Songbird in a while but the last time I tried it out I enjoyed the features and 'complete-ness' of it, though I felt it was a bit bloated.
You shouldn't have to worry about getting a software firewall then. And I still recommend you get a PDF reader. You're going to stumble across something eventually that's a PDF file and you're going to have to download something to read it. My recommendation: install Foxit and just forget about it.

 

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If you're into customizable stuff and show-off worthy effects, I would definitely recommend Foobar over Winamp or Songbird. Also, if you were planning on getting an instant messenger, I'd get Miranda. A great open-source IM cliente that allows full customization. You can make it fit with any visual style and have the buddy list pinned to the desktop/transparent, anything. It is quite confusing though, so unless you have a lot of time and patience to waste tweaking Miranda, I'd stick with one of the official IM clients.

 

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Your post is idiotic.

I personally use RKLauncher, Everything (file finding program, uber indexer), Steam, Chrome, and TeraCopy


Also, iTunes, Combined Community Codec Package with Media Player Classic, Last.FM, CCleaner, Glary Utilities