Good enough software

There's so much software available these days, it's difficult to find which is the best without laboriously downloading, installing, configuring and testing, which I don't often have time for. Unfortunately a large proportion of software is simply not good enough, or its features are poorly described.

Here is some "good enough" software I've found for Windows:

• To diff directories, e.g. sync music or photos: FreeFileSync 6.3
• To diff the content of files, e.g. source code: WinMerge
• Windows Explorer alternative: xplorer 2
• To encode mp3s: LAME
• To see where your disk space is being used: Treesize
• To remove spyware: Spybot: Search & Destroy
• Torrents: qBittorrent
• N64 emulator: project64
• Programmer's text editor: Notepad++
• ebook management: Calibre
• Manage iPhone music outside iTunes: Media Monkey
• Graphics maniplation: GIMP
• Rename files: Bulk Rename Utility
• Macro recorder: Autohotkey
• Media player: VLC, or MPC-HC (not tried)
• Music player: Winamp
• Documents and spreadsheets: Microsoft Office
• (LibreOffice and OpenOffice are NOT good enough)