Software for Windows

I use

• Adobe Acrobat Reader (for reading PDF files)
• Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDF files from PostScript and MS Word files)
• Audacity (excellent free sound editor/player)
• Beyond Compare (excellent directory/file compare shareware, $30)
• Xenu (excellent website link checker, free)
• Cygwin Tools (for providing UNIX commands in an Emacs shell -- very important)
• ctrl2cap (for switching Ctrl and Caps-Lock -- very important for Emacs users)
• DiskPie (decent shareware pie-chart disk-usage analyzer)
• Eudora²
• Ghostscript
• Ghostview
• psutils
• Mozilla Firefox web browser
• Microsoft Office XP (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• MiKTeX (very nice TEX/L^ATEX distribution for Windows)
• MP3ToWaveConverter (shareware, $15)
• Netscape Communicator
• Emacs (most critical for my quality of life under Windows)
• ActivePerl
• Quicken
• Tera Term Pro and ttssh (secure telnet shell)
• TurboTax
• Winamp (classic sound player)³
• WinZip
• ws_ftp
• Various software that came with hardware add-ons (see below)
• Various browser extensions