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Everyone has a list of utilities they cannot do without. The first thing you do once you format and install Windows is to go to that directory with all those installs. Some of these are ones you install only when you need them and some you need to have just to get started.

George Ou at Zdnet has put together a list of his must-have free utilities.

Not surprisingly I use quite a few of these or the equivalents (I prefer Azeurus to utorrent etc). Some others like Skype and AVG, I am a big fan of.

The one other utility I cannot do without that is not on that list is DAEMON Tools. This is my preferred CD/DVD emulator. Why? It is small, it does what it is supposed to do well and best of all, it can emulate some of the most common security mechanisms used in CDs. This is very important to me as I usually rip my Game CDs on to my HDD so that I don’t have to keep switching CDs to play games. So without these emulations, I cannot do that.