Useful software classification for professional users personal use

this is a quick list of various software that can boot the productivity of an user and help self manage his/her system.  This list can be helpful if you are setting up your business/personal computer for the first time.

1. OS and updates
   1. In case of Windows, Turn on Automatic updates
   2. Have all of the important and recommended updates installed as the first step
2. Security Software
   1. Antivirus Software: Like Symantec Endpoint Protection, MacAfee Virus Scan or free apps like AVAST and others.
   2. Firewall Applications and any other security products
3. Office Application Suite:
   1. Microsoft Office latest version
4. Web Browsers:
   1. Default Microsoft Internet Explorer
   2. Mozilla Firefox
   3. Apple’s Safari
   4. Google Chrome
5. Browser plug-ins
   1. Adobe Flash
   2. Sun Java JRE (or have complete JDK installed)
   3. Microsoft Silverlight
   4. Macromedia ShockWave player
6. PDF reader and editor Software
   1. Adobe Reader and/or Acrobat latest version
7. Download managers (for Home users)
   1. JDownloader (feature rich app and greatly simplifies larges number of files)
   2. Rdesc to auto download from most popular sites
   3. Free Download Manager for rest of sites (win7 version not yet avail.)
8. Media Players (for media lovers)
   1. VLC player for that to play most of the file types out there
   2. Real Player for .rm files
   3. etc,.
9. Archive Software
   1. 7-zip (Open source)
   2. winrar
   3. winzip
10. Text Editors
    1. Notepad2 (Free, lite, simple and clean)
    2. Notepad++ (Free and supports file comparison as well)
    3. Crimson Editor (Free and supports Column selection, very handy in column editing feature)
11. File Manager
    1. Q-Dir (Free and helps admin users to open the files in user login with admin rights)
12. Software Distribution (DVD writer or ISO creators)
    1. Roxio 2011 (comes with DVD writer, ISO creator, media player, image editor, etc,.)
    2. ISO buster to directly read/recover iso images (also enables reading .bin/.cue and many other files types) (Free)
    3. Daemon Tools Lite (Free for home users) to create virtual drives and mount iso image files
13. Scheduling and Planning software
    1. Anuko World Clock (the best app for roaming/receptional folks who has to schedule organize for events in different time zones)
14. RDP Managers
    1. Remote Desktop Manager (unlimited entries in free version)
    2. Royal TS (Free version limits to only #10 entries)
    3. mRemote

For Technical savvies

1. Cross platform apps (Unix tools and commands for Windows folks)
   1. Cypgwin
2. Virtulization Software
   1. VMWare Workstation