Switching from snow leopard to windows 7 need help!

[npowers86]

i am new to windows 7 (i have made the jump from mac osx which i have used since windows 98 second edition!)
as a result i am behind quite a bit and wanted to know recommended apps for general productivity and pc use. thanks!

here are my system specs
i7-870
gigabyte p55 ud3
4gb corsair dominator ddr3 1333
sapphire radeon 4870 1gb
1tb samsung spinpoint f3
(going to purchase a vertex 3 ssd when i becomes available for the sata 6)
ultra 600 watt psu
haf-x case

im moving up from a 2ghz core due macbook white so i am making a big upgrade

 

[hang-the-9]

Few things I think every PC should have.

Document creation. Open Office, free. MS Office, not free

Media playback. VLC Media Player, free, can play DVDs. If will use a BluRay player, you will want to use the software that comes with it as VLC cannot play BluRay disks.

For music, Media Player or iTunes is good.

Movie Organizing, I like My Movies Database.

Photo, Image organizing, editing. My favorite is Google Picassa, maybe also Infranvew for editing.

Anti-Virus, Avira Antivir, Avast, AVG Free, all good.

Spyware (non-resident, meaning you run it when needed), Malwarebytes.