Reinstalling Windows? Get Common Apps at Once 1

Posted by JD 10/25/2009 at 07:06

http://ninite.com/ helps make installation of commonly used applications easy. Lifehacker covered this tool nicely.

If you install test and virtual machines, this is a real time saver. A few clicks to select your apps, I selected about 10, then about 5 minutes of downloads and installs. Only once did I have to “Accept”, but that was a Windows7 UAC.

Have you seen any issues with this solution? Let us know.

For example, I did have to decrease the security so ninite could create and download the custom installation package, but that was expected. That part was expected AND necessary. After all the installations were completed, I removed it from my trusted sites. Good enough.

Some of the installed apps were not the latest and had updates available. Doing an update rather than searching for the apps, downloading, installing, is much quicker. Of course, addons for Firefox still needed to be added.

Which apps did I install?

  1. Firefox
  2. Thunderbird
  3. OpenOffice
  4. Opera
  5. Skype
  6. IrfanView
  7. KMplayer
  8. VLC
  9. Java 6
  10. Foxit
  11. WinSCP
  12. Putty
  13. Notepad++

Which Firefox addons did I install?

  • NoScript
  • Sage (Sage Too forbids AdBlock)
  • AdBlock Plus
  • Scroogle
  • Tree Style Tab

You don’t want too many firefox addons or it will get slow.

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  1. JD 11/05/2009 at 07:40

    Another option is http://www.allmyapps.com/

    It may have more apps listed than the earlier tool.