Ninite – Installing all your favourite software quickly after a reformat
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As a techie who occasionally reformats his computer for faster speed, or is asked to help out with reformatting computers, time to productivity is often at the top of my mind.
After reformatting, there is a need to reinstall one’s favourite programs such as Chrome, Spotify, iTunes, Google Drive and even anti-virus such as Essentials. Navigating to all of these websites one by one can be time-consuming, and one may even omit to install these.
Ninite can help make this process seamless by streamlining your downloads and installations while you have your coffee 🙂
Why use Ninite?
Ninite takes out the fuss of software installation by aggregating all the downloads you wish to make. All you need to do is select the software you wish to download on their website.
How to use Ninite?
1. Pick your choice of apps
2. Click on Get Your Ninite
3. Run your Ninite
Features & Benefits of Ninite
- Says no to toolbars or unnecessary extra software – yay!
- Skips reboot requests.
- Does not bother you with any choices or options
- Installs apps in their default locations
- Installs 64-bit apps on 64-bit machines
- Installs the latest and most stable version of apps you selected
- Verifies digital signatures or hashes before running anything
Ninite’s Organizational Users
Based on their website, some of Ninite’s well known organizations users include
- Sony
- Harvard Business School
- Cornell University
Ninite Pro
For secure software and patch management, you may also use Ninite Pro which allows you to manage all your software versions
Is Ninite safe?
We have been using Ninite for over 10 years. To minimize security risks, you should also install the necessary firewall and antivirus on your computer.
Other alternatives to Ninite
There are other installers such as Chocolatey and NPM. However, these websites or tools have a layer of technicality around them and may not be suitable for normal layman users. What we liked about Ninite is it’s ease of usage – click, download and install.
Using Ninite takes no more than 1-2 minutes and I was off to doing my own errands while all of these installations completed quickly in the background.
