Auto App Install @ Home?

I'm a guy who builds his own pc's out of specific kit that I think best suits my needs and budget. I'm also a guy who likes to make sure his home computer is running well, as a poorly performing PC annoys the begeezus out of me! This means, the dreaded rebuild is a common occurance for me. When I say common, I'd say I'd rebuild 2-4 times in a calendar year, depending on what crap I've loaded on and how it is currently performing. Anyway.....

Last year I was reading a geek mag. I think it was PC Authority or something along those lines. I found a very tiny tid bit on a website called Ninite.com. This was a site I'd never heard of before, but when I read the article, I jumped straight to Chrome and had a look.

Ninite is a godsend for someone like myself, who rebuilds reasonably regularly, and gets frustrated with having to download Chrome, Firefox, Adobe bloatware, etc etc. Not only is it time consuming finding these common apps, but downloading, installing and configuring them not to kindly announce that they are going to update and restart your computer whilst your fragging in COD!

So what is ninite.com? It's a place to check off the common downloads that the average person will need when rebuilding their PC, which creates a small executable that you download. You then run that executable from your pc and it installs the applications you have selected. Easy right? Yep!

Another nice feature of ninite is that it auto configures the applications you select not to run on startup and prompt you with crap on a regular basis. No toolbars are ever installed and you don't have to click next for every application that installs.You can also run the same executable weeks or months later and it will automatically download and install any updates for the applications you chose. Very cool.

Anyway, I strongly suggest you check it out at ninite.com