Like the title says. Personally, I use -Notepad -Excel -Firefox -Filezilla -Quicken -Outlook Express most often. Yeah, things aren't much faster with an A64 rig...but Doom 3 does run a lot smoother.
My start bar area is like this:- Mozilla Firefox Adobe Photoshop CS DC++ Nero Burning ROM Notepad MSN Messenger 7.0 Paint (No idea why I hardly ever use paint) Cyberlink Power DVD Microsoft Word 2003
According to my Start Menu it's: Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Thunderbird Notepad Windows Media Player Diablo II Open Office aMSN WinRAR Doom 3
Firefox Photoshop 7 Macromedia Dreamweaver MX2004 iTunes (1800 songs now ) Steam Counter strike source Word 2003