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Its probably too late to add anything to the discussion now but I can't believe no one else mentioned it so far. Billy is a wonderfully light audio player with minimalist footprint even after loading 500+ items to the playlist. Comes in both installer and portable versions. Switched from winamp to it during my college days and haven't gone back since.

Check out their site Sheep Friends. All the applications there are designed with the minimalist footprint idea in mind and I have been using almost all of them for years now.

1. Abby [Simple allround converter]
2. Billy [Lightweight audio player]
3. Diana [Basic notes]
4. Hawk [Hex file viewer]
5. Kelly [Desktop calculator]
6. Natty [Tray mail checker/notificator]

Its probably too late to add anything to the discussion now but I can't believe no one else mentioned it so far. Billy is a wonderfully light audio player with minimalist footprint even after loading 500+ items to the playlist. Comes in both installer and portable versions. Switched from winamp to it during my college days and haven't gone back since.

Check out their site Sheep Friends. All the applications there are designed with the minimalist footprint idea in mind and I have been using almost all of them for years now.

1. Abby [Simple allround converter]
2. Billy [Lightweight audio player]
3. Diana [Basic notes]
4. Hawk [Hex file viewer]
5. Kelly [Desktop calculator]
6. Natty [Tray mail checker/notificator]

Its probably too late to add anything to the discussion now but I can't believe no one else mentioned it so far. Billy is a wonderfully light audio player with minimalist footprint even after loading 500+ items to the playlist. Comes in both installer and portable versions. Switched from winamp to it during my college days and haven't gone back since.

Check out their site Sheep Friends. All the applications there are designed with the minimalist footprint idea in mind and I have been using almost all of them for years now.

1. Abby [Simple allround converter]
2. Billy [Lightweight audio player]
3. Diana [Basic notes]
4. Hawk [Hex file viewer]
5. Kelly [Desktop calculator]
6. Natty [Tray mail checker/notificator]

Its probably too late to add anything to the discussion now but I can't believe no one else mentioned it so far. Billy is a wonderfully light audio player with minimalist footprint even after loading 500+ items to the playlist. Comes in both installer and portable versions. Switched from winamp to it during my college days and haven't gone back since.

Check out their site Sheep Friends. All the applications there are designed with the minimalist footprint idea in mind and I have been using almost all of them for years now.

1. Abby [Simple allround converter]
2. Billy [Lightweight audio player]
3. Diana [Basic notes]
4. Hawk [Hex file viewer]
5. Kelly [Desktop calculator]
6. Natty [Tray mail checker/notificator]

Its probably too late to add anything to the discussion now but I can't believe no one else mentioned it so far. Billy is a wonderfully light audio player with minimalist footprint even after loading 500+ items to the playlist. Comes in both installer and portable versions. Switched from winamp to it during my college days and haven't gone back since.

Check out their site Sheep Friends. All the applications there are designed with the minimalist footprint idea in mind and I have been using almost all of them for years now.

1. Abby [Simple allround converter]
2. Billy [Lightweight audio player]
3. Diana [Basic notes]
4. Hawk [Hex file viewer]
5. Kelly [Desktop calculator]
6. Natty [Tray mail checker/notificator]

Its probably too late to add anything to the discussion now but I can't believe no one else mentioned it so far. Billy is a wonderfully light audio player with minimalist footprint even after loading 500+ items to the playlist. Comes in both installer and portable versions. Switched from winamp to it during my college days and haven't gone back since.

Check out their site Sheep Friends. All the applications there are designed with the minimalist footprint idea in mind and I have been using almost all of them for years now.

1. Abby [Simple allround converter]
2. Billy [Lightweight audio player]
3. Diana [Basic notes]
4. Hawk [Hex file viewer]
5. Kelly [Desktop calculator]
6. Natty [Tray mail checker/notificator]

Its probably too late to add anything to the discussion now but I can't believe no one else mentioned it so far. Billy is a wonderfully light audio player with minimalist footprint even after loading 500+ items to the playlist. Comes in both installer and portable versions. Switched from winamp to it during my college days and haven't gone back since.

Check out their site Sheep Friends. All the applications there are designed with the minimalist footprint idea in mind and I have been using almost all of them for years now.

1. Abby [Simple allround converter]
2. Billy [Lightweight audio player]
3. Diana [Basic notes]
4. Hawk [Hex file viewer]
5. Kelly [Desktop calculator]
6. Natty [Tray mail checker/notificator]

Lately I've been using Billy to play my mp3 collection. Billy uses less than 2MBs of RAM even with tens of thousands of entries in a playlist. Billy can scroll through large playlists without any lag, skipping or waiting.

Billy starts instantly (even with large playlists) and sits unobtrusively in my system tray. It does what I need it to do, uses almost 0 resources and it stays out of my way. What more can you ask for?

I don't have anything to do with Billy, other than being a very happy user.

I hear that there is an actively maintained app that is similar to Billy, but has more features (including scrobbling) callled DéKiBulle. I haven't used it much, but it was nice enough when I used it.

Billy has to be the simplest no-crap mp3 player out there. Its very light and takes up very little memory even if you like to play 500+ mp3s in your playlist. I have been using it for about 3 years and can't even imagine going back to anything else (including winamp 2.98 which was the best version IMHO) No fancy shit. Total keyboard control.

Download it Here They have some other nifty goodies which you may want to check out too.

billy http://sheepfriends.com/?page=billy

On the other hand, the question is about windows. Here's the best freeware list I've found, taken off of the neowin.net forums. These are not guaranteed Clean, but most of them are. Also, you might want to check tinyapps.org, which specializes in SMALL apps (usually not enough space for ad/spyware).
Category 3D Graphics: ----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/CharacterCountF ilterForAValidList----
3Delight Free - http://www.3delight.com/index.htm
Anim8or - http://www.anim8or.com/
Aqsis - http://www.aqsis.com/
Blender - http://www.blender3d.org/
gmax - http://www.discreet.com/products/gmax/
Houdini (Free Edition) - http://www.sidefx.com/apprentice/index.html
Maya Personal Learning Ed. - http://www.alias.com/eng/products-services...ple/i ndex.shtml
Now3D - http://digilander.libero.it/giulios/Eng/homepage.h tm
OpenFX - http://www.openfx.org
SOFTIMAGE|XSI EXP - http://www.softimage.com/products/exp/v3/
Toxic - http://www.toxicengine.org/
Wings 3D - http://www.wings3d.com/
Category Anti-Virus:----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/Char acterCountFilterForAValidList----
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Avast - http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1018.html
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/
ClamWin - http://www.clamwin.com/
Category Anti Spyware:----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/Charact erCountFilterForAValidList----
Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Bazooka - http://www.kephyr.com/spywarescanner/index.html
Diet K - http://www.dietk.com/
SpyBot Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.htm l
SpywareGuard - http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html
Category IRC Clients:----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/Charact erCountFilterForAValidList----
BersIRC - http://www.bersirc.com/
BitchX - http://bitchx.org/download.php
HydraIRC - http://www.hydrairc.com/
TinyIRC - http://www.tinyirc.net/
XChat - http://www.silverex.org/news/
Category Audio Players:----JunkCharactersToDefeatLameness/Charact erCountFilterForAValidList----
1by1 - http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~pesch
Billy - http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy
CoolPlayer - http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
DeliPlayer. http://www.deliplayer.com/
Foobar 2