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I absolutely love
goldwave. Its free (trial version) audio software that will let you open and edit any file with tons of effects, EQ, etc. I use it mainly to slow down solos to half speed so that I can transcribe them.
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I kinda like
Audacity for being a truly free thing. It's showing a lot of promise, and does what I need it to do.
I installed
Notepad++ as per this thread's recommendation, and I'm liking it a whole lot.
I also ended up looking up a way to kill that "delete" option from the Recycle Bin's contextual menu (in Vista, I forget if it's there in XP), and instead ran into
RecycleNOW, which promises to be very useful and less annoying than the recycle bin.
Oh, and I don't see how there's no love for the "Express" editions of visual studio. Yes, it's very gay that they won't just install together and work like visual studio, but studio's a pretty fast code editor. They are too, and they're free.