PC software collection

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This is a list of programs that are the best at their job. Some recommendations and links are out of date.

Windows

Audio and Video

Music Playback
foobar2000 Advanced Audio Player (local foobar2000 page)
Video Playback
Simplest, most powerful, and best method or CCCP Combined Community Codec Pack (worst option)
Image Viewer
Irfanview Windows Graphic Viewer
Desktop Recorder
BSR Screen Recorder or CamStudio
Lossless image functions
optipng, pngcrush, jpegtran

Bulk Processing

Bulk file rename
Bulk Rename Utility (BRU)
PFrank File Renamer
Duplicate file search
[torrent Duplicate File Finder]
Search Filesystem for Keywords
File Text Finder or Windows Grep
Duplicate Image Finder
VisiPics

Document Editors / Readers

Comic Viewer / Reader
CDisplayEx
Document / File Viewer / Editor
Notepad2 or Notepad++ and Microsoft Office
PDF Reader / Viewer
Sumatra PDF

File Management

Search
voidtools Everything Search Engine
Recovery File (PAR, PAR2) and Hash File (SFV, MD5) Management
QuickPar
Quick File Hashing
HashCheck
Archiver (RAR, Zip, 7z, etc)
WinRAR or 7-Zip
File Splitting and Joining
HJ-Split

File Transfer, P2P, and SSH

FTP / SFTP / SCP
WinSCP
FXP
FlashFXP (does anyone use this)
SSH
PuTTY
Torrents
uTorrent v2.2.1 build 25302
Newsgroup Downloader
NewsBin Pro
p2p
ApexDC++
Remote Desktop Control / VNC
TightVNC / Comparison of remote desktop software

Hardware

Hardware Information
CPU-Z or HWiNFO
Graphics (GPU) Information
GPU-Z
Fan Speed Control
SpeedFan
Hardware Monitor
SpeedFan, HWMonitor, and GPU-Z
Stress Test
IntelBurnTest, LinX, prime95

Web

Website Browser
Vivaldi, Opera Web Browser v12.17 (local Opera page) and Microsoft Internet Explorer
In-page File Downloader
Opera's Links panel

Instant Messaging / Chat

Instant Messaging (MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, etc)
Pidgin Instant Messenger
IRC
mIRC (local mIRC page)
Voice Chat
Mumble
Synchronized video playback and chat
Syncplay

E-mail client

The Bat!

ISOs, Burning, Virtual Drives

Disc Drive Emulator
VirtualCloneDrive
ISO Image Burning
ImgBurn
ISO Building
ImgBurn

Security

File Destruction / Real Deletion
Eraser
File / Hard Drive Encrypting
VeraCrypt or TrueCrypt

System Management

Startup Manager
AutoRuns
BSOD Information / Troubleshooting
BlueScreenView
Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Defrag
[JkDefrag or MyDefrag Disk Defragmenter]

UI

Start Menu
[OpenShell]

App Collections

NirSoft
Sysinternals

Linux

If you can't figure it out yourself, install Windows.