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There's always BurnAtOnce: http://www.burnatonce.com/

http://www.burnatonce.com/ (based on cdrdao, as far as I know. My favorite for the time being)
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ (works for dvds as well)

Both free (as in beer), for Windows, and easily found using Google.

I'm not trying to knock off Linux (which I also use), but there's plenty of freeware out there for Windows.

K3b

Burn At Once

Ardour

Out of luck there.

audacity

Audacity is written with wxWidgets and runs on Linux, *BSD, Mac, and Windows.

TerminatorX

Out of luck.

K9copy

DVDFab Decryptor + DVD Shrink . This solution works under Wine, too, and unlike my many experiences with K9copy, does more than segfault.

Avidemux

VirtualDub. It's GPL'd and works quite well under Wine. Unlike my experiences with Avidemux, the audio and video actually sync (wtf is it with that? transcode and DVDRip do it to, forcing me to use windows apps under wine).

Diva

Is that 3ivx? Just use XVID (gpl'd for Linux and Windows). It's activley maintained and very high quality.

Foobar2000 - An audio player that is a painful reminder how heavy iTunes feels. Has 10x the functionality, and brutally enforces good practices in keeping a media library. 0.9 just came out a few weeks ago.

Media Player Classic - The only media player you'll need. With ffdshow, it handles just about anything I can throw at it, audio works, subtitles work, and its one exe.

uTorrent - Everything you'd want from Azureus, in a 150k self-contained exe. Makes it almost manditory to leave it open all the time because its just that slick and efficient.

BurnAtOnce - A cdrdao based burner with an amazingly simple interface. Who needs Nero with this around?

Exact Audio Copy - THE cd ripper. cdparanoia works fine in most cases, but doesn't leave you 100% sure your rip is 100% perfect like this one. And this fits in almost any audio workflow with its advanced tagging, and command line support.

More apps like these on other platforms please!

Productivity:

Graphics:

Media:

Internet:

Survival Kit:

Development:

Try burnatonce (www.burnatonce.com). It's very simple and to the point. It itself is not open source, but uses open source projects.

My favorite OSS for Windows:

Glest (www.glest.org) - fun RTS game with commercial quality graphics / sounds.
Battle of Wesnoth - fantasy TBS game.
vPod - for loading music on my iPod.
Filezilla - nice FTP client / server
Putty - SSH / Telnet client
XChat - www.silverex.org - yes, it's a GPL windows compilation.
7-zip - Unpack .zip .tar .rar .ace .rpm .deb, etc.
DevCPP - C/C++ compiler IDE.
PDFCreator - self explanitory.
SciTE - I use this instead of Dreamweaver at work.
Audacity - Recording audio (rarely used, but a quality app).
ClamAV - No-bloat antivirus.

What are you talking about?

Apparently you don't like free tools for burning CDs?

You can have drag and drop built in, or you can use some other free tools. Paying $100 is not a requirement for burning CDs.

Which CD Burner would you recommend?

Category CD/DVD Burning:
Burn4Free - http://www.burn4free.com/ [burn4free.com]
Burnatonce - http://www.burnatonce.com/ [burnatonce.com]
CDBurnerXP - http://hem.bredband.net/cdburnerxp/ [bredband.net]
CDRDAO - http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
CDR Tools Frontend - http://demosten.com/cdrfe/ [demosten.com]
Deepburner - http://www.deepburner.com/ [deepburner.com]
DVD Decrypter: http://www.dvddecrypter.com/ [dvddecrypter.com]
Easy Burning, DropCD & Audio CD - http://www.paehl.de/cdr [paehl.de]

http://www.burnatonce.com/

Awesome set of open source tools using cygwin provide burning goodness superior to your pay-for-nothing buddies in the market.

A few years ago, before i started using Linux seriously, I started building an almost free/open Windows XP system. Here's the basic breakdown of the so-called free system:
Shell: http://www.bb4win.org/
Burning prog: http://www.burnatonce.com/
DC client: http://gempond.com/odc/
Graphics: http://gempond.com/odc/
IM: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Browser:
Mail: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
Office suite: http://www.openoffice.org/
et cetera...
But then it dawned on me: All these programs are avaliable under GNU/Linux.

That day was the day that i switched to Debian. I haven't looked back.

Here's my top 10 list.

1. Sleipnir - Greatest tab browser, made by a Japanese guy, there's an English translation, if you haven't tried it and been using other IE based tab browser, you should give it a try. It's IE engine only. (For those who'll have trouble navigating Japanese web page, here's the download link to English version)

2. PuTTY - Just like others

3. Exact Audio Copy - Very good audio ripper for CCCD.

4. Adobe Reader - Though getting like a bloated software with Printme ad, I encounter PDF just about everyday...

5. GIMP - I thank GIMP team for such a great freeware tool.

6. VideoLAN (VLC) - Great media player + rich network functions, can play DVD (with libdvdcss, check your own law) without any commercial licensed softwares.

7. EmEditor - This is the best text editor I've found to date (tried, textpad, editplus, ultraedit what have you...but I'm not a emacs/vim guy). For what's better, it's free for academic use! It's got regular expression search/find, keyboard mapping, document tabs and all the feature you'd expect on a good text editor. I used to use EditPlus(registered) before this, but I switched.

8. ffdshow - Codecs for DivX, Xvid. No more need for official ad-full DivX codec installation.

From here, I don't have them installed, but these are worth mentioning.

9. burnatonce - A great tool for writing CD/DVD media. It's actually a Windows frontend for cdrecord and ProDVD, small and efficient.

10. DVD Shrink - To extract DVD data and back it up, no writing function, but good for storing it on HDD.

I could go on...but I've reached ten =)

I have to agree here.

Total Commander is definately the first program I put on in any new Windows install.
Ultra Edit is also near the top of my list, the best Windows text editor by far.
WinAmp is also one of the first programs I install.
I prefer Opera to Mozilla
ACDSee instead of Irfanview.

Except for the choice of browser and picture viewer/editor our top 5 are pretty much the same.

The rest of my top 10 would be:
Eudora - leave the virus of the day with MS LookOut behind
Win RAR - manages most archive formats
Nero Burning ROM - an alternate would be Burn At Once if you are looking for a free Windows burning program
Clipmate - great utility for managing multiple clipboard items
Secure CRT - last but not least, I have to do some work sometimes

Of course many of these programs also need plugins and codecs installed as well.

Someone else mentioned goldenhawks, but another nice (and even smaller if you ignore the help file) cd burner is burnatonce. Nice, relatively simple, and small.

Burnatonce is a quicker solution for bin/cue/iso burning; its based on cdrdao. I use nero for audio cds and archiving files, but its such a resource hog that I avoid it when I can. I used to be able to have marathon burn sessions in the background with version 5.5 and still listen to music and program, but with nero 6 i can't even get smooth mouse movement while burning...

dvdrhelp.com also has info and good tutorials on these (and other) programs, although you probably won't need them.

"I'm buying a new mid-grade laptop computer, which I plan to dual-boot between Windows XP Home and Mandrake 9.x. Before its arrival in a few weeks I'm trying to think of what 'essential' software I'll need to make a usable home system. In general I'd like to spend as little money as possible (free is good). As far as my needs, think 'typical family PC' without an emphasis on gaming. I know I can get something like Open Office for word processing, presentation, etc. needs, but is there such a good thing as a good free virus checker? A good free email client? A handy web browser? What would you consider the top 10 (or so) pieces of software for a new home system, bearing in mind that I need software for both the Windows and Linux side of things?""

These are the files I keep on my "Esential CDs" that I bring around to help out other non-techs (Windows users) people. (Of course because they are financially broke after paying $200 for their Operating System, they want everything else to be free.) ;-)

Anti-Virus: The best free antivirus program I have found AVG Anti-Virus 6.0

Office Suite: (Word Processing, SpreadsThe quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumped off the edge. The quick brown fox ran off with all his toysheet, Slideshows, etc.)
Open Office 1.1

CD/DVD data/audio Burner: (and doubles as a CD image creator .ISO and .CUE)
BurnAtOnce 0.99a

CD/DVD image loader/emulator (perfect for people who often misplace their CDs): (loads .ISO, .CUE, .CCD, .CDI etc. files without burning them)
DAEMON Tools 3.41

MultiMedia Player (Mpeg, Mp3, AVI, etc.)Winamp Classic 2.91

or for audio only Foobar 2000 0.7

Zip Extractor:Ultimate Zip or7 Zip 3.11

Download Accelerator:Star Downloader v1.42

Internet Browser: (other than IE) Mozilla 1.4 or Opera 6.20

System Statistics: (Motherboard, Memory, BIOS, Video, Software info, etc)AIDA32 3.80

E-mail (other than Outlook Express)Thunderbird 0.2 or Pegasus Mail 4.12

Spyware/Adware killer:Ad-aware 6 or Spybot Search & Destroy 1.2

Pop-up Killer/Browser Enhancer (for IE)Google Toolbar 2.0.102

PDF document reader:Adobe Acrobat 6.0

FTP program (other than IE and the command line FTP)Winsock FTP LE 5.08 or FileZilla 2.2.1

Internet Chat Programs (other than Windows Messenger)Gaim 0.70or Trillian Basic 0.74E

Firewall Software:ZoneAlarm 3.7.211

or if you have Highspeed Internet, a spare 200mhz PC, and two network cards laying around...ClarkConnect 2.0

CD Ripper / MP3 Creator CDex 1.51

Graphics Editor (other than Paint) The Gimp

Graphics viewer (other

Try Burnatonce Burnatonce It's a windows cdrdao / mkisofs GUI.

burnaburnatonce can too....