This is a list of my favorite software I use on my PC.
 | Microsoft Windows 7 A new revolution in user experience, with the technical improvements of Windows Vista, optimized performance and new features. |
 | Zune Browse music, not spreadsheets. |
 | Firefox Out of the box, it’s a crappy browser, but after applying the right extensions with the right mix of settings, it becomes the best browser ever. |
 | Microsoft OneNote 2010 I couldn't live without it. It keeps track of all my ideas, all my TODOes, it knows all the things I like, all the thinks I love. |
 | Windows Live Writer The awesome tool I'm using to write this blog. |
 | Windows Live Messenger Good instant messaging application (without Messenger Plus or other dumb extensions, and with emoticons disabled). The new version perfectly integrates with Facebook chat and has a wonderful Facebook album viewer. |
 | Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 It's my paradise. Intellisense, real-time error checker, the beauty of the .NET Framework, Language Integrated Queries, perfect user experience. |
 | Windows PowerShell A wonderful .NET scripting environment. On linux, everything is a file. On PowerShell, everything is an object. |
 | Windows Live Mail Good mail and RSS reader. |
 | VirusTotal I don't use a real-time antivirus. Just a bit of good sense: I use Windows Updates, I don't install scareware and fake antivirus, SuperMagicVideoCodec.exe, Serial.exe, etc. If a program look suspicious to me, I upload it to VirusTotal, where it will be scanned by 30+ different antivirus products. |
 | Notepad2 Advanced text-editor. Uncluttered UI, zoom with CTRL+mouse wheel, syntax colorization. |
 | WinDirStat Very useful tool to understand where the disk space is used |
 | AutoRuns See everything is loaded on startup: drivers, shell extensions, etc. Makes possible to filter Microsoft entries and can check digital signatures of these files. Every entry can be disabled or deleted. |
 | Smart Sniff Program to see the TCP/UDP traffic of running applications, I use it for HTTP automation tools. |
 | Resource Hacker Extracts or replaces icons, bitmaps and dialog boxes from Win32 files. |
 | Process Explorer Very useful task manager from Microsoft. Makes possible to understand exactly what is happening on a computer. |
 | ArtIcons Icon editor. Many features, light-weight, good user experience. |
 | AutoIt3 Handy scripting language to automate tasks, set customized hotkeys and create simple Win32 executables. |
 | CMenu Organizes the context-menu in sub-menus (Unlocker, VirusTotal, PEID, TrID, Universal Extractor, Notepad, Copy path, Change extension)) |
