If you’re managing a network of computers but lack the licenses and/or software to install full operating system and software images, setting up a new machine can be a cumbersome and tedious.
Luckily, there are some free utilities – such as Ninite – available that can help do batch downloads and installs. Check it out…
Essentially, you select all of the applications that you’d like to download and install, and the Ninite service will prepare a bundle of all of the utilities before serving them up to your machine. After that, it will go through the process of installing them all.
Love this.
Think you guys have any use for this?
Greg says
I use it every so often when cleaning up PC’s for people.
We held a PC Clinic at our church and this is a great tool to install a collection of apps while working on multiple machines.
Tom says
Yep – next best thing to pushing images out to multiple machines, in my opinion.
Andrew says
I find myself setting up PCs either for coworkers or for friends on a regular basis. Ninite is always part of the equation. The only application it doesn’t include that I wish it would is Quicktime.
Tom says
There’s a similar app called nLite that also allows you to customize a Windows installation before setting it up.
I don’t know if it’s still maintained, though. I’ve not looked at it in a couple of years.
Kyle Reed says
That is pretty cool and looks like you would save a ton of time using this great free tool.
Tom says
Yep
Adam Shields says
I love it. It has a great tool. I have used it for the last couple computer re-builds.
Tom says
I haven’t built any machines in a while – I normally just keep a directory of frequently used tools in a Dropbox directory and run through the setup programs whenever I do a fresh install.
This would save just a little more time, I think ;).
Nick Shoemaker says
yes. this is noice. I [like] it! thanks Tom!