General Software and Utilites

This is all potentially useful software but don't go crazy and install them all. Only install the ones you absolutley need. Many of these are free or inexpensive applications.

Media players
Adobe Flash Player
Windows Media Player 11
VLC
ITunes
Foobar

Office
Adobe Acobat Reader
Open Office

CD/DVD Burning
CDBurnerXP
ImgBurn

Browsers and Email
Firefox
Thunderbird

Benchmark and Testing
Sisoftware Sandra

Genreral System Tools
7-Zip
Sync Toy

Disk Defrag and Maintenance
Perfect Disk

Anti Virus and Anti Spyware
AVG
ESET Smart Security
Spybot Search and Destroy

Media Encoding and Decoding Codecs
Vista and Windows 7
Windows XP

System Backup and Recovery
Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2009
This is included in all of ADK's current systems.
Older systems used Paragon Drive Backup Personal Edition.
If you wish to upgrade to this version please contact Paragon software directly using the link above.