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From: baynole2 on 2 Jun 2010 06:48
On Jun 2, 2:13 am, par4thecourse <par4thecourse> wrote:
> http://ninite.com/
>
> It's a pretty cool offering. The site lists a load of the top freeware
> programs. You check each one you want and then create an installer of all
> the programs. It can really come in handy when setting up a friend's computer
>
> Lifehacker offers their own essential freeware pack using the Ninite
> installer:
>
> http://lifehacker.com/5548767/lifehacker-pack-2010-our-list-of-essent...
> ndows-downloads?skyline=true&s=i

I just did a reinstall of Windows & used Ninite. Very handy.Downloads
& installs "clean" versions of some useful apps.
From: Craig on 2 Jun 2010 09:08
On 06/02/2010 03:48 AM, baynole2(a)yahoo.com wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2:13 am, par4thecourse<par4thecourse> wrote:
>> http://ninite.com/
>>
>> It's a pretty cool offering. The site lists a load of the top freeware
>> programs. You check each one you want and then create an installer of all
>> the programs. It can really come in handy when setting up a friend's computer
>>
>> Lifehacker offers their own essential freeware pack using the Ninite
>> installer:
>>
>> http://lifehacker.com/5548767/lifehacker-pack-2010-our-list-of-essent...
>> ndows-downloads?skyline=true&s=i
>
> I just did a reinstall of Windows& used Ninite. Very handy.Downloads
> & installs "clean" versions of some useful apps.

Used it a few months back. Certainly makes fresh installs less painful.
There's one or two other services like this btw... They were posted
here in the last 3-4 months.

hth,

--
-Craig
From: M.L. on 2 Jun 2010 16:02


>>> http://ninite.com/
>>>
>>> It's a pretty cool offering. The site lists a load of the top freeware
>>> programs. You check each one you want and then create an installer of all
>>> the programs. It can really come in handy when setting up a friend's computer
>>>
>>> Lifehacker offers their own essential freeware pack using the Ninite
>>> installer:
>>>
>>> http://lifehacker.com/5548767/lifehacker-pack-2010-our-list-of-essent...
>>> ndows-downloads?skyline=true&s=i
>>
>> I just did a reinstall of Windows& used Ninite. Very handy.Downloads
>> & installs "clean" versions of some useful apps.

Does Ninite allow the user to specify the drive and directory to
install the software programs?
From: Craig on 2 Jun 2010 16:50
On 06/02/2010 01:02 PM, M.L. wrote:
>
>
> Does Ninite allow the user to specify the drive and directory to
> install the software programs?

Don't think so. They're pretty consistent in representing they want
feature requests though. So you might wanna give them a holler directly.

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-Craig
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