Do you fall into one of the following groups of people:
- You recently purchased a new PC or Laptop
- You were having trouble with your computer, and recently had the Operating System reloaded?
- Your hard drive recently died, and you had to reinstall everything on your machine from scratch.
If so, I recently found out about a nifty tool that will help you get back to normal much faster: ninite.com. Ninite is a website that quickly builds a custom installer file, which will download and run install programs for many freely available programs. Here’s a few of the programs it will run for you:
- Web Browsers: Opera, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
- Messaging: Skype, Messenger, Pidgin, Digsby, Google Talk, and Thunderbird
- Media: iTunes, Songbird, Hulu, Audacity
- Imaging: Paint.net, Picasa, Gimp, XnView
- Documents: Office 2007 Standard (Trial), OpenOffice, Adobe Reader, CutePDF
- Antivirus – MS Security Essentials, Avast, AVG Free
- Runtimes – Adobe Flash Player, Java, .NET, Silverlight
- Utilities – ImgBurn, CCleaner, Defraggler, CDBurnerXP, Recuva
- Compression – 7-zip, Winrar
- and many more.
I created an eHow document which details how to use the Ninite website: How to Download and Install Common, Free Software Quickly and Easily. I’ve used this with much success on a few computers already – let me know your experience as well!
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