Windows 7 Essentials

[Matblack]

I did a clean install of W7 last night on my new drive

I'm trying to keep it relatively uncluttered, so far I have put the following on

iTunes
VLC Media Player
Lightroom - still need to copy over my pics and Lightroom backup files
7 Zip
PKR

And thats about it, I'm using Live Mail at the moment and God forbid IE as a browser , I'll put Chrome and/ or Firefox on soon.

Just wondered what other people use?

I need a video player which will output 5.1 sound tracks to S/PDIF or I need to change some settings in VLC or get a codec or something, also VLC doesn't seem as crisp as in Vista and I think I used somthing else to output the video but I'm stuffed if can remember what and how I did it

Anything anyone can't live without that I should get?

I'll put Office on at somepoint too.

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