After over 48,000 visitors, over 1,000 specific comments, and an entertaining amount of 'passionate debate' on this site and Slashdot, here's a compiled list of the top ten Windows applications most suggested to me by the community. This list is in order starting with the most frequently recommended software:
IrfanView
OpenOffice
Picasa
Firefox
Opera
Half-Life 2
Nero 7
Winamp
AVG Anti-virus
Spybot S&D
Again, thank you everyone who took the time to offer their personal suggestions, carefully considered tips and generous advice. I'll have some more analysis soon as I finish wading through the mail!

It's interesting to note that only 2 of these applications are available only through commercial means. Perhaps the people responding to your request were a bit biased?
Posted by: Stringer | May 10, 2006 at 11:52 PM
Very interesting
Posted by: free | April 05, 2008 at 10:07 AM