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I used to have none at all, because I was worried about slowdown. But then I went nuts and added everything I always wanted to my desktop, and discovered it didn't slow down one bit. So I kept it! Yay.
Let's see... PCMCIA thingy, Volume Control, Battery Power Meter, Kazaa Lite, Norton AV, Keyboard thingy for laptop FN key, Web2Pop, Privoxy, Y'z Shadow, Wireless Network Status, LAN Network Status, Winamp, Trillian, M$ Outlook, And two custom apps I wrote to control Winamp with the Windows key and do other random stuff.
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