| Anti-Virus | AVG free | NOD32 | Avast! |
| Anti-Malware | Spybot | MB Anti-Malware | |
| Firewall | Comodo | ||
| Browser | Firefox | Opera | Chrome |
| Thunderbird | Outlook | Mulberry | |
| IM | Pidgin | Trillian | Skype |
| Torrent | uTorrent | ||
| Media Playback | VLC | iTunes | Winamp |
| Burning | CDBurnerXP | Nero | ImgBurn |
| Image Editing | Photoshop | Paint.net | GIMP |
| Office Suite | MS Office | OpenOffice | |
| Adv. Text Editor | Notepad++ | UltraEdit | |
| Foxit Reader | CutePDF Writer | Adobe Reader | |
| Others | 7-Zip | ||
| Ccleaner |
* Italics denote a commercial/paid application
