A couple of weeks ago I did a format and reinstall of Vista which is on my MacBook using Bootcamp. After the Vista installation completed, I thought I’d write down the applications that I installed and in the order they were installed. So this is my list of essential windows applications that I must install to help me get my stuff done.  I have missed some things that have since been installed, but this list is pretty close to the majority of tools I must have:

AVG Free
Vista SP1
Firefox
Filezilla
TextPad
Office 2007 Enterprise + SP1
IIS
One Note 2007
Visual Studio 2008 + SP1
Java
Flash Player
Skype
Adobe CS4
Nokia Software for N95
ASP.NET Ajax Extensions
ASP.NET Ajax Control Toolkit
WinRAR
Silverlight (IE ony)
Adobe Air
Live Messenger (the download was down for a couple of days)
SQL Server 2008 Client Tools and Management Studio
Adobe Flex
Tweetdeck
WinSCP
Putty
Arduino
Firefox Developer Plugin