Dec 2008 - Redoing my laptop, here are the programs I plan to download and put on it again in alphabetical order

AVG Free - Anti Virus
http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Virus-Free-Edition/3000-2239_4-10320142.html?part=dl-AVGAntiVir&subj=dl&tag=button
CCleaner - To keep PC clean
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
Cucku Backup - Internet over skype
http://www.cucku.com/
FireFox - Web browser
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/
Juice - For Pod casts
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
K-Lite Full codec pack with Real player
http://www.codecguide.com/download_mega.htm
MSN messenger
http://messenger.msn.com/download/getstarted.aspx?mkt=en-gb
N-Lite - For slip streaming windows updates downloaded below.
http://www.nliteos.com/download.html
OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org/
Picasa - Photo management software
http://picasa.google.com/
Quick time alternative
http://www.codecguide.com/download_qt.htm
Skype
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/download/skype/windows/downloading/
Stamp - renames Photos to the date.
http://www.klingebiel.com/tempest/hd/stamp.php4
Sumatra PDF
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/download.html
VLC Media Player
http://www.videolan.org/
Yahoo Messenger
http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/
Windows Update down loader
http://www.windowsupdatesdownloader.com/ProgramFiles.aspx

Games
FreeCiv