What are Reddit's favorite Software Installer Apps?

ninite.com

If you build computers or work with fresh operating system installs a lot, ninite creates a single executable that installs any number of open source programs you choose from browsers, to chat, developer tools and media players. Beyond handy.

Ninite is the perfect website for installing many common programs on a new or freshly wiped computer. It's always up-to-date, and automatically denies every "want-our-toolbar"-like option.

I'm not sure how well known it is, but https://ninite.com/ is amazing when setting up a fresh install of windows. You just pick a bunch of common programs (chrome, skype, steam, notepad++, etc.), download one executable, run it, and it downloads and installs all of the programs you selected.

In what I've witnessed, don't download anything if you don't know how to uncheck the "download this bullshit toolbar" box.

Edit: /u/John2143658709 pointed out a great program called Unchecky. I highly recommend it for those relatives that have a few new toolbars every time you visit.

Edit 2: As a lot of you have pointed out, Ninite is also a helpful program.

Ninite

It automates installation of selected software. If run again it will update the same software.

It's a fantastic time saver for anybody who has to deal with freshly installed windows machines.

/u/spez: this = the

I love https://ninite.com/

It lets you save a custom installer that includes free and essential software like Chrome / Firefox, Winrar, various audio codecs and players, programmer tools, OpenOffice and more. It makes fresh windows installs so much less painful and is as easy as can be.

Ninite is not a piece of software but a website that allows you to download many of the applications you typically need on a new / recently formatted computer, all at once, without any risks or problems or hidden bloatware or toolbars or any other shit.

Got a new computer or had to reinstall your operating system? Use Ninite to quickly install a lot of common, frequently used programs at once! Just pick the programs that you need and Ninite will give you an easy installer that installs them all for you.

What's considered small?

Not enough people know to use ninite.com so by some scale it's small. If ninite has it, you should probably use ninite to install and to update it.

~~Very different type of site, but massdrop.com just gets better the more people who use it. Users there vote in what products they like, then massdrop contacts the vendor and uses large audience size to get lower prices. The more people who use it, the better it becomes.~~

Edit: I originally suggested massdrop, though I've only had one experience with them. Their business model intrigued me and I thought it'd get better the more people who used their service. Though my only experience of them was good, it was just a single incident. Comments & PMs from other people who've used the site have now made me leery of them, so I'll retract my recommendation of them. I stand by my other site recommendation though, I'm a sysadmin by trade and ninite is solid through and through.

Ninite.com is a great alternative to typical software repository sites.

Select all the programs you want, download the installer, then run it to automatically install (or update) all of those programs simultaneously. It also opts out of all the toolbars and bullshit that plague free software.

ninite.com

Warning: You can't choose what drive it downloads to (SSD vs HDD). It will download to whatever your OS is on (usually the C: drive.) This may be a problem with people with small 120 GB SSDs like me who have to micromanage their downloads to go to their HDD to save room for the games.

Use https://ninite.com/ for all your software installs. It will save you hours on an fresh OS install and not install any of the BS/malware/adware. Run the download again and it will update all the stuff it installed originally.

For Windows, ninite is pretty good. It seems to work best if you are using it on a new system, I had a problem with it when I already had Firefox installed and tried to use a ninite installer that included Firefox. Linux distributions are already far ahead of this with their package managers, but Microsoft is supposed to be working on a similar concept for Windows.

My grandmother bought a new laptop rather than let me or my father tune her old one up. Not two weeks later I get a call saying that her laptop is running slow. I grab my USB of magical antivirus/malware programs and drive over.

I start with just letting windows defender do it's thing, finds nothing. Ok, malwarebytes now. I go make a sandwich while it's running, and come back to 30 - ugh. 3057 malicious files on her TWO WEEK OLD DEVICE. I still can't grasp how she did that.

Edit: since people were asking, the contents of my magical computer healing stick:

Defender comes pre-installed on Windows machines now, but I have Avast as a backup as there's a lot of malware that disables defender. Malware is more common than hard viruses on the machines of incompetent users IME, and I use Malwarebytes for that. Great program, malware database is updated often, scans in all the right places. If it's a heavily infected machine I run Spybot to check for spyware. I also tend to give it a quick tidy-up with CCleaner afterward.

Most of these programs have versions that can run straight off a flash drive, no installation on the infected machine required.

I also have a Ninite setup to install security programs in case I think the machine needs it.

I usually use NiNite to install essential programs that I use on the day to day. It's useful program that lets you handle the process in one go. Can also pick which programs you want and don't want. https://ninite.com

https://ninite.com/

>We install and update over 500,000 programs each day for millions of home users and Ninite Pro subscribers like NASA, Harvard Medical School, and Tupperware.

Best of all they do it without the obligatory bloatware.

ninite.com

If you reinstall windows for people regularly or setup new computers, it can combine almost every common utility and program you may need to download into a single batch installer. skips all of the stupid tick boxes that keep programs from installing extra shit etc. I wish more people knew about it.

sl in terminal
If you don't have it, standard sudo apt-get install sl, pacman -s sl, or whatever your distro use.
Fun fact - there's couple locomotives included with different parameters, go and discover!

If you are sitting on Windows you can always look at gif.

E: I was proven mistaken, you actually can run it on Windows 10 and it takes like 5 minutes to get it done.

How to get it to run -

10: Settings->update&security -> for developers -> turn developer mode on
20: Control panel ->programs->programs and features ->turn windows features On or Off ->Tick the Windows Subsystems for Linux
30:win+r or win+s -> bash
40: wait till it gets downloaded, create the admin account, get the pc to reset.

now you can start it with 'bash' as before
50: sudo apt-get install sl
60: sl

Have fun.

e2: Also, if you are on Windows Insider Program you can get the SUSE instead of Ubuntu, if you so desire, by downloading OpenSUSE or SLES directly from the store instead of step 30 onwards.

Ninite.com for free install and update management in Windows. No hassle, no junkware, safe and easy for multiple downloads, installs and updates of basically every popular app. What's not to like?

Welcome ! :D No precise parts, only a few advice for your new life:

• Never save money on the PSU. Ever.
• Gaming motherboards are mostly overpriced, the non -gaming equivalent of the same model is enough
• Unless you want to overclock, don't buy a "K" Intel. And if that's the case, the stock cooler should be enough for a while.

That's it for the hardware. now the software:

• Make a Steam wish list (and/or GoG.com...) and link it to isthereanydeal.com, you'll be notified of the deals by email.
• Steam is great, but there is also BundleStars, HumbleBundle, Gamesplanet...
• For really low budget gaming: cheapshark.com list the cheapest games of the main stores.
• You can easily install/update a lot of freewares programs using https://ninite.com/
• Backup your machine, preferably online. There are paid but life saving services like Crashplan (my favorite), Mozy, Backblaze, Carbonite... A quick and dirty solution is to use Dropbox, Google Drive etc. but you'll run out of space quickly just taking photos...

Cheers ! :D

That is not needed

TIPS TO CLEAN A NEW PC

1. Download/Install Revo Uninstaller, You can use https://ninite.com/ - 7zip, ImgBurn, SumatraPDF, OpenOffice, VLC Media Player are also good

2. Once Revo is installed, use that to uninstall unwanted programs.

What Revo does is not only uninstall the program like Norton but also removed all the files related to in the root directories which does not happen with a general uninstall. Norton really is like a Virus so it is important to do this.

You can also uninstall pretty much everything else also if you like, save the Microsoft certified programs, rest are not necessary but use your own judgement.

Type "Msconfig" in Windows Search/Run, Go to Startup Tab, if it tells you to open new Window, click on that(windows 10).

You can disable pretty much everything, only enable something like "Realtek Audio", etc. Turn off stuff like Skype.

Now when your PC turns on it won't take 30 minutes to boot up, this is also great for PC users with old computers. I bet most people who read this will have 20+ startup programs running.

For Users of Older PC's or even new ones

Go to http://www.shouldiremoveit.com/index.aspx

Go through your Programs list in Revo Uninstaller.

Search each program in Should I Remove it, You will likely have 5-10 virus programs with an old PC.

https://ninite.com/

Pick and Choose as Needed. I usually get:

• Chrome

• Foxit Reader

• VLC

• Spotify

• 7-Zip

• Dropbox

• Google Drive

• Steam

• Blizzard Launcher

• Discord

• CPU-Z

• GPU-Z

• CCleaner

Last 4 aren't on Ninite but easy enough to find. Once I get all that installed and everything updated to the newest version and logged in.. I create a backup/System Restore Point

https://ninite.com/

Awesome website, lets you bundle up links to installers for multiple programs all into one self-contained/running file, that, when run, will batch-install all the included programs.

it's a prebuilt so.....

#1 rid this device of manufacturer crapware
#2 use shutup10++ in order to kindly tell windows to stop spying on you
#3 use ninite to deploy the basic apps without having to look for them

https://ninite.com/ this website creates a single customisable download package that includes a selection of essential software of your choice such as browsers, Skype, Java, iTunes etc. Really useful if you're in a hurry or want to save half an hour.

Ninite is a website that lets you install and update multiple programs at once. It's a god send for when you've bought a new PC or OS. It doesn't have an encyclopedic list of programs but the core necessities are there. So handy to immediately get Chrome, WinRar, VLC and Steam when you're starting fresh. ~~If it has one fault it's that~~ it doesn't offer a download for Internet Explorer.

Even better, if they are not the type to install things easily, can use https://ninite.com/ to generate an install package (which can do teamviewer) in an easy option free install... for those who don't like installing things and picking options

Remember this is a preview :) We are doing this in the open. If you have feedback or suggestions, please create Issues: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues. The decision was to be open source rather than try to show up with a fully baked product that didn't do what you wanted.

Because their business model is clear - make a really handy, free consumer product to gain reputation, then sell a very similar enterprise product that adds a some features which are really handy to IT departments that manage a lot of machines and price it in a way that makes it a no-brainer compared to the employee time it saves.

Another option that I'm incredibly fond of is Ninite. Let's you install multiple packages as well. No bloatware included. Fantastic for pushing out to a lot of machines over the network as well. Plus, you only need to generate an installer once as it will download the most recent versions of the packages from the Ninite cloud each time you run the installer. Very nifty.

Edit: Random addendum: for those of you in the MSP business that may or may not use Kaseya, their "Software Deployment" module is Ninite. They charge a shit-ton for their licenses though, so I'd recommend managing Ninite separately. Save some $$$ ;)

1. f.lux (reduces eye strain at night)

2. SVP (interpolation software for mediaplayers, makes 24fps movies run at 60fps or higher.)

3. Unchecky (Software that automatically unchecks spam/adware in installers, and gives you a warning if accidently have one checked)

4. Greenshot (better screenshotting software, standard settings works like snipping tool but with functions to instantly upload your screenshot to sites like imgur and more)

5. Classic start (puts back the start menu in Windows 8/8.1)

6. Steam (obvious reasons)

7. Geforce Experience (if you have a Nvidia GPU then this is great, mostly for the Shadowplay feature and easy driver updates)

8. Clover (adds browser like tabs and more to Windows Explorer) [this program might have some stability issues so just be warned about that, especially since you won't be able to refert to standard windows explorer if it decides to crash everytime you try to start it due to Control Panel using Clover if it's installed, although it should most of the time stop crashing if you restart or force close clover with task manager a few times.]

9. Taiga [for anime watchers] (automatically updates your animelists on sites like MAL if it detecs you are watching anime)

10. Notepad++ (it's basicly Notepad but superior in every way possible)

See https://ninite.com/ for a site to very easily download and install a lot of programs you would like on a new system, including some of the ones I named above. I'd recommend you select K-Lite codecs in it aswell since it gives you all the video codecs you need to watch videos, it also installes MPC-HC which is my video player of choice, although you can uninstall it if you prefer a different video player.

Here is what is happening.

As most of you know Blizzard is going to be launching a new expansion for WoW next week (Hype). This is a critical time for blizzard that may make or break WoW forever.

Now a bunch of 'hacker' groups have threatened blizzard with DDoS attackes for a while, pretty much blackmail, give us lots of money or we will ruin your login server. This is what happened 2 years ago with WoD; the game had 5 hour queues for weeks.

This tactic doesn't really work well most of the time for a lot of reasons.

1) Blizzard really do have some of the best in the business and can mitigate some of the issues IF they have server space to deal with it. (IE there are not suddenly 5 million more people playing WoW than this time last month + a bunch more people playing Karazan on HS)

2) Taking down blizzard's servers would not be a 'big' deal if it were just another week, but Blizz has A LOT riding on the next few weeks.

They are specifically going after login functionality because it is both easy to attack AND devastating to the company's users. It bottlenecks every player and causes huge latency elsewhere. Blizzard have everything riding on battle-net login and bringing down one login server cripples 6 major games.

Here is a brief (and a little dated) overview of how DDoS works

EDIT: I wanna quickly mention that Blizz really can do very little to stop these attacks as long as you have a static feature as part of your web-service (Like a login) then you are very vaunerable to DDoS. Wanna help Blizzard? Make sure your system in not a zombie-slave to these guys by running 2 of the free great security tools that can be found here.

Not since I was shown the ways of Ninite. A (mostly) silent installer/updater that makes sure to install everything you want and nothing you don't. Running it after you have already used it to install programs will make it auto update all of those programs you had it install, and again make sure no junk gets thrown in there.

An absolute must in the IT world.

Using Ninite you can just select what you need and it'll automatically install them through their application. Aside from necessary drivers I would get the following:

Browsers: Chrome, Firefox

Security: Microsoft Essentials, Malwarebytes

Messaging: Skype, Discord (not on Ninite)

Compression: 7-Zip

Media: VLC, foobar2000, Audacity, Handbrake. You may not need the last two but since I edit videos then it's handy.

Runtimes: Java 8

Developer Tools (may not be necessary): JDK x64 8, Eclipse, Putty

Other: Steam

After you get your drivers and programs install I suggest making a clone of your drive because should you ever get a virus or malware that destroys your system, or you need a day 1 restart, you have the backup and you do not need to go through this tedious process again.

Ninite isn't free for commercial anymore.

>The free version of Ninite is only licensed for home use and as a trial for Ninite Pro. If you get paid for running Ninite (like in an IT department, PC shop, managed service provider, school, non-volunteer helpdesk, etc.) you must upgrade to Ninite Pro. https://ninite.com/terms

Ninite. Especially good if you're loading up a new computer.

Get one custom installer that will install the latest version of dozens of useful programs and utilities. VLC, Zoom, Discord, Chrome, TeamViewer, Dropbox, Blender, Steam, OpenOffice, and lots more.

For anyone that installs programs on a regular basis I recommend using Ninite . It automatically removes any extras from the install wizard, super useful after a Windows install

Get rid of mcafee, and any other bloatware.

AVG free antivirus 2016 is solid and get malwarebytes anti-malware, both free and they should be all you need.

You can get both here as well as any other popular utilities. https://ninite.com/

Ninite https://ninite.com/ if you are doing a fresh install of Windows.

Select the programs you want, download the installer, and it will automatically install everything while skipping any "external offers" like the ASK toolbar and it will update every program automatically whenever a new update becomes available.

Software: The operating system is a matter of preference. Most people use Windows. Some people like Macs. Linux is for savvy users. For actual programs, just use Ninite. Grab a browser, a doc editor, and some security. And put an ad blocker on your browser for god's sake!

Brands: HP makes good business computers and shitty consumer-grade ones. Lenovo makes quality, durable laptops (ThinkPads especially), but they come with spyware. Apple computers are good but overpriced. Best support. Acer is pretty good and very affordable. Asus is good and appropriately priced. Looks nice. Dell is shit except the XPS line. By and large, you get what you pay for.

Hardware: How much space do you use right now? Increase that by half and get a hard drive with at least that much space. Get an SSD if you want a laptop that boots quickly. Get at least 6 GB of RAM. 8 is preferred, and 16 is for editing large photos or messing with big datasets. CPUs come from Intel or AMD. Intel is usually much better (get anything that says i5 or i7), but recent AMD chips are quite good. Go to an actual store to look at laptop formats. Do you want a 2-in-1 (convertible tablet)? How big of a laptop do you want? Does it need to be below a certain weight?

Find a laptop search engine and figure out how much a laptop with these specs is going to cost. Search speciality sites and look at special offers (Costco, manufacturer sites, etc). Settle on a few choices and read online reviews. Pick one and order it.

Not covered: Bare-bones laptops and Chromebooks, serious gaming laptops.

Edit: These are just one man's impressions based on a few years of buying and recommending. If you have better info or corrections, PM me and I'll add it.

To be fair, for edge specifically, you can just get <code>winget</code> and type winget uninstall microsoft.edge

The only thing that breaks is the Help from the web links which tries to open in edge rather than your default browser

Ninite is a free tool that installs and updates many/most of the standard utilities without the Adware that comes with the apps' normal installers. You pick all the different apps you want, and it downloads, installs, and updates the apps automatically. (Chrome, Firefox, 7zip, MSE, AVG, LibreOffice, Audicity, Team Viewr, Adobe Reader, Dropbox, BTSync, Google Drive -- pretty much any general purpose utility app you could want is on their list.)

It's an invaluable tool for setting up a new system.

If you need your basic programs, especially if you've bought/built a new computer or reinstalled Windows, use ninite.com to get all the basics like Java, Chrome, 7-Zip, etc. It will automatically install everything without prompting you for anything, avoiding all the toolbars and addons that came straight from Satan himself.

Every few years at least if not more often, blow out your computer/laptop. They get dusty, and they can overheat if enough dust builds up. I've seen dust bunnies in the worst offenders.

ninite is insanely useful and free.

What is it? Go to the site, click all the free software you want from the list, click next to download the 1 program; and it will one click install all your programs without any junk.

As someone who reinstalls windows about 2x a year, this checklist is exactly what I needed. 10/10 would recommend.

It does however, miss out my favourite tool on the planet: Ninite

ninite.com is your friend here. Just select all the runtimes in one installer. Then she just needs to run one thing to update all of them with no other clicking required except to close it when it is finished. and you do not get toolbars or virus programs or any junk.

gonna have to down vote ya son cuz that means you installed some bullshit loader from who knows where rather than getting it from their website or just using ninite.com like civilized person.

I rather like Ninite. You pick which programs you want and it creates a single installer to get you going. If you want to check for updates for any/all of the things it installs, you just run the installer again.

You may also want to check out this Reddit thread. The OP has a site listing useful PC and Gaming software and the top post list a bunch of alternatives.

https://ninite.com/ For some reason or another I tend to factory reset my computers every year or so. I have to look this website up every time but it really helps. Otherwise I would start with Spotify so I can listen to music while I download everything else.

After the OS is installed, Ninite has been run and I've got it configured how I like it...

IMAGE OR CLONE YOUR OS DRIVE.

That way you'll always have a 'clean install' point you can revert to. Definitely saved my butt a few times.

Edit: Shameless plug to my post about cloning/imaging/backups

Using https://ninite.com/

1. GIMP is my basic photo editing tool. Free and easy to use whenever you have some experience
2. Notepad++ is an improved Notepad (Hence the name)
3. Windirstat shows the file sizes in a human readable format.
4. I prefer Firefox
5. iTunes. I actually kind of hate it, but I use my iPod as my media device, so it's a quick and dirty "It works"
6. PeaZip - 7zip alternative that is actually active still.
7. VLC - Plays any video file without a problem
8. SumatraPDF - Tiny fucking PDF reader

http://www.wsusoffline.net/docs/
Download updates once. Put on thumb drive/network share. Copy to computer and run the .exe in the client folder. It'll install+ reboot as many times as necessary.

Second one: https://ninite.com/
It downloads and installs programs automatically.

I'm sure everyone here has a "setting up the internet for mom and dad" story.

They just bought a new computer, so your first step is to set up Admin and User accounts. Users only log in as users. Then, use Internet Explorer or Safari to go to ninite.com to get a one-stop "background crap they're gonna need" installer.

First step is to install an antivirus, Firefox, VLC, 7-zip, TeamViewer, runtimes, codecs, a PDF reader, and LibreOffice.

Then you go into Firefox and start putting on the usual basic add-ons. HTTPS Everywhere, PrivacyBadger, uBlock Origin, and DecentralEyes. Most are pre-setup, but you tinker with uBlock Origin.

Last step? Set the antivirus to "silent" so it doesn't ask your parents for any input, just does its job. Set all OS updates to "automatic" and hopefully scheduled, so it doesn't ask your parents for any input, just does its job. And finally, hide all the menu-bar icons for those Firefox add-ons, and disable notifications, so your parents don't start turning them off, and the add-ons can just do their jobs.

Do this for less-tech-savvy siblings, too.

It's my pleasure to finally, after a really long hiatus, the release of TranslucentTB's next version. It adds a couple of things that where long asked for, such as a fluent style option for the taskbar (on build 17134 of Windows) and fixed the ghost UWP apps that dynamic windows saw. (a pretty frequent problem)

It also increases the reliability of dynamic Dtart, and adds two new modes, dynamic Timeline and dynamic Cortana.

You can download it from the store here and read the release notes linked by the post for all the details.

Please close the older build of TranslucentTB before upgrading, as the migration from an event to a mutex to detect single instance causes a name conflict in the kernel object manager if the event is not destroyed before opening a mutex with the same name.

Feel free to drop a message on our Discord or create a GitHub issue if you have any problem.

I think it has potential but it is fairly barebones right now. It is also buggy - I found 3 bugs after playing with it for about 10 minutes.

I like the UI. I'm definitely keeping an eye on it. For now I'm sticking with 2Day.

Jeg kan anbefale denne website: https://ninite.com/ til en ny computer, hvor man skal installere programmer. Det er så pisse bekvemt og let. Bare klik på programmerne du vli have installeret, og så klik på download knappen, og så kører det. Det sparer en for så ufatteligt meget tid, og den har mange gængse programmer.

There's a lot of apps that get the images off spotlight and just apply those without the buttons. I use Dynamic Theme, not because of the buttons (I don't mind ads, like at all), but because it automatically saves the images to my hard drive. Works nicely and can also do it to your desktop if you want.

Download Link (Microsoft Store)

It is forked version of 7zip but with windows 11 context menu support. You can checkout it's GitHub repo here.

If it is not showing option in context menu for some reason then you can try turning on Tools > Options > Settings > Show system menu and restarting file explorer should work.

Ninite Lifehacker Pack for Windows.

Pick the stuff you want, Evernote, Libreoffice, Office Viewer, Chrome, Skype, VLC, Spotify, Dropbox, F.Lux, 7Zip, .Net, Silverlight, Java, Revo Uninstaller, Notepad++ and AHK are my picks. Ninite packs are awesome, install the software you want with zero malware.

(Not fucking uTorrent grab Deluge instead)

And of course Firefox on top of Chrome as primary browser, and add Adblock+Ublock to both. Then add Tunnelbear to Chrome for easy proxy access.

This appears to be NSIS http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

I used this years ago in conjunction with autoit to automate my SOE software deployment job as the place I worked for let staff choose their own laptop specs and finding drivers etc after pushing the enterprise image became a pain.

So all laptops stayed on their oem windows install and I just ran my special DVD to get the SOE deployed.

Worked so well the tool saved me about 4 hours on each device sitting around clicking next, inputting keys and customising settings for software that didn't let you script silent instals.

https://ninite.com/ ist hilfreich für so etwas. Cleanup-Programm gar keins, da ich meinen PC damit nicht zumüllen will. Als Antivirus sollte Windows Defender und ein gesundes Gehirn ausreichen.

(Das Gehirn bei 50 Grad regelmäßig waschen)

Ninite is a site where you can find a bunch of programs that you'll otherwise end up installing anyway, and you can just check the ones you want and download them in a big package to save yourself from having to go to each individual site to get them.

That's what I do when I have a fresh windows installation, after graphics drivers.

What's with this pattern? It's become increasingly difficult to avoid adware. I recently had an installer that flatout installed adware without a warning or opt-out (fuck CBR Reader).

Some of these pieces of adware have become so well known I can actually name them from personal encounters alone (like those cocksuckers at Conduit).

I now try and avoid even using official installers because of this crap. Ninite is a shining example of how an installer should work (although I wish it supported more programs -- I wonder how it works on their end?). Package managers and building from source work.

I wouldn't mind a service that lets me search if an installer has bundled adware. I wonder if there'd be interest for it if I made it myself...

• Firefox
• Thunderbird
• LibreOffice
• Foxit Reader (PDF reader)
• System Explorer
• CCleaner
• Speccy
• Notepad++
• 7zip
• Java

Also, not so much essentials, but rather depending on what you do:

• Steam for gaming
• Dropbox, OneDrive, OwnCloud etc. depending on which services you use
• Teamspeak / Mumble

I mostly get those via Ninite, also useful to just check if you forgot something and prepare an installer.

I don't know about better, but here are some additional apps that I find useful:

• Acastus (Address / POI lookup)
• AdAway (adblocking, requires root)
• AntennaPod (podcasts)
• DAVdroid (contacts + calendar sync)
• K-9 Mail (mail client)
• LibreTorrent (torrenting)
• OsmAnd~ (maps and navigation)
• RunnerUp (fitness tracker)
• Termux (terminal)

Also, you can browse the "most popular" apps under the various categories on https://fossdroid.com to find more.

You should use ninite so you never even have to open edge/IE

https://ninite.com/

It's a multi-application installer for popular apps like VLC, Chrome, Firefox, Skype, Dropbox, 7-zip, etc.

You just checkbox the apps you want, it creates a single installer for the latest versions of them and away you go.

When I used this software I remember it explicitly saying that it declines any extra offers for installers, and simply installs the vanilla version.

Edit: on the official website listed under section "Ninite Will":

• say no to toolbars or extra junk

This is a list of programs I use almost on a daily basis.

&#x200B;

###Compiled most of the comments here:

&#x200B;

1. f.lux - Reduces eye strain in the late night hours (basically removes color blue from the screen)

&#x200B;

1. Cent Browser - the most feature rich chromium browser. I have been using it for a few years now. It's awesome.

&#x200B;

1. uBlock Origin - best adblocker

&#x200B;

1. Imagus - chrome extension for enlarging in-page pictures when you hover the cursor over them

&#x200B;

1. Ninite.com - helpful to easily install multiple programs

&#x200B;

1. Light Alloy - Great music and video player

&#x200B;

1. OBS Studio - Best screen recording and streaming software

&#x200B;

1. Caesium - For compressing pictures. I don't know if this is the best one though...

&#x200B;

1. Bulk Rename Utility - great utility for renaming files and keeping them sorted.

&#x200B;

1. Lightshot - best printscreen software imo.

&#x200B;

1. Recuva - for recovering deleted files

Normally I use Ninite to install my go-to software, but recently I looked into a few other things on the list and they were great to use.

Some of my favourite freeware would have to include:

• WinDirStat, which gives you colourful breakdowns of the space in your drives and what's wasting it
• CrystalDiskInfo, which makes tracking drive health as easy as pie
• DesktopOK, which saves your desktop layout so you don't lose it every time you update your video drivers or switch resolution (only software I've ever donated to, it's amazing!)
• HWMonitor for all-in-one lightweight temperature tracking

And the list wouldn't be complete without Folding@Home, to fight the diseases of the world :)

Yeah. You shouldn't be using uTorrent anymore. Like really. Don't. - full of shitty ads, bundled crapware and also considering payments. why should u bother.

If you want closest alternative to it, go qBittorent - download here to make it simple

Depending on how many programs you have, some people use Ninite. I just download the ones I need onto another drive and after I've installed the OS go to the other drive and run the installers.

https://ninite.com/news

> Spybot 2 added to Ninite.

> April 25, 2013 at 2:28 pm

That was the last one :/ from there on only updates.

I actually wrote them several emails asking if they would include other programs and they always responded with something like: "Thank you for your suggestions, we are strongly considering adding those programs since the demand for them is high."

But in the end they added nothing :(

My list of programs i wish they added to ninite:

• dev tools like eclipse ee (well, they actually have the normal eclipse in there), maven, jboss,tomcat, apache,mysql and such, i think im asking too much here as those are pretty specific.
• MP3Tag - a powerful tag-editor
• Sublime - a powerful text-editor(way better than notepad++)
• Origin & Uplay
• HWMonitor
• CPUZ & GPUZ
• JDownloader
• Teamspeak3
• Handbrake (powerful video/audio transcoder/converter)

just to name a few

FWIW for those looking for a Mastodon mobile app, I tried Tusky recently and I seriously like it more than any Twitter mobile app I have ever used. There is even a dark theme available that looks better than the default one.

Download Avast and also Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Both are free and do a decent job. You may also want to download CCleaner to clean up your computer a little.

You can get them using https://ninite.com/ for easy installation.

And since the IT guy is your mate, don't ever say any of the following after they've worked on your computer.

• It was working before you touched it.
• You did something to my computer 6 months ago and now I'm having a problem.
• I turned off / uninstalled $software that you installed. Your mate put that shit on there for a reason!
  • If they put Ninite on your computer, it means you can't be trusted to do your own updates.
  • If they installed antivirus on your computer they think you'll install everything that comes in an email attachment.
    
  • If they installed adblock, that's because they love you.
  • If they installed some backup software, it means they're trying to prevent you from losing the last 5 years of your family photos that you only have on that computer and no where else.
• I turned off automatic updates. (Forgivable if you follow this with "I'm a dumbass and I'll never do that again.")

They seem to think that's a feature and not a bug. From their website:

> We don't plan to support custom install locations because we believe where an app is installed is an implementation detail that users shouldn't worry about.

I think that's a little condescending, if you ask me. Plus, some of us have valid reasons for doing that, but they refuse to even make it an option. My setup used to be a 60GB SSD for the OS and a 2TB HDD for everything else. I didn't have enough room to install everything on C:\, but Ninite thinks I'm too stupid or something.

To be fair to them, they do acknowledge this complaint, but their solution seems to be just buying a bigger SSD.

Because Windows historically never had a general software update mechanism, corporate system administrators usually use software that packages programs up and manages many computers from one central location to keep software up to date in a large scale (most applicable to windows). An example is BMC's Marimba. Outside of programs like this, most of the time you just need to run each program km question and look for a 'check for updates' function, usually in the help menu, or look online for a newer version.

If you're using Linux, it's usually as easy as sudo yum upgrade, or sudo apt-get upgrade

EDIT: as mentioned by other commenters, apparently ninite does this now; I thought it only did blind installs but apparently it has gotten better with time. Neat.

While that's true and annoying we can already share to our PCs, or remotely open the browser with the Connected Devices (formerly Share Across Devices) app: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh4tssg

Readit and mytube also support continuing on other devices.

There is an app that does just this called "Everything". It is AMAZING and I know a few people that swear by it. Go to https://ninite.com/, tick Everything, install it and be amazed. You can thank me later ;)

I hope you are using Ninite Pro. Sure you can use a server on the LAN with a cache directory.

We use a Base install script with a line for things that we do not want icons put on the desktop and another that we do. Then i setup ninite.exe /cache SERVER /updateonly /silent in Task Scheduler daily.

I have never needed using a frozen installer.

https://ninite.com/help/features/switches.html

They have not. I hate their reasoning, too:

> No Custom Install Locations We don't plan to support custom install locations because we believe where an app is installed is an implementation detail that users shouldn't worry about.

> There seems to be a popular myth about separating applications and the OS on different partitions. Due to registry entries and other dependencies the desired separation of apps and OS is largely an illusion.

https://ninite.com/ Super easy to use, 99% useful apps with 1click installation, and it free! (hope they make donate or patreon, i dont need PRO sub, but can donate couple of bucks)

go to ninite.com there you can get an unatended installer for discord and many other apps.

&#x200B;

Install discord, and remove evidence of the app like shortcuts.

&#x200B;

Alternatively, download an "unatended edition" and keep it on an USB

ninite not actually free software itself but very handy when doing a fresh install or setting up a new machine as it allows you to select all the essential stuff you'll need/want and installs the lot in one go.

Vote it up here https://feedback.discordapp.com/forums/326712-discord-dream-land/suggestions/11286111-windows-10-universal-app

I'd like them to at least port it via Centennial program just like Slack did https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9wzdncrdk3wp

Relevant: Ninite and/or Unchecky.

Ninite is a bulk program downloader/updater that automatically skips installing bloatware. Especially great if you have to reformat machines often, or are a frequent user of virtual machines.

Unchecky is a bit more lightweight, and just unchecks 'related offers' on most software installations. Disclaimer: Windows only, and I haven't used it in a few years, so can't vouch for its recent efficacy.

There are tools to help you do it the quick & dirty way, but I'd personally recommend you take this approach:

1. Back up data on cloud storage/2nd hard drive/external drive/flash drive
2. Install new ~~hard~~ solid state drive physically
3. Install windows on new drive & set new hard drive as boot drive in BIOS
4. Use ninite (https://ninite.com/) to quickly install all the programs you need
5. Put data back on pc's main drive, reformat 2nd (old) drive to use for general storage of movies, games, etc

It says here that >We don't plan to support custom install locations because we believe where an app is installed is an implementation detail that users shouldn't worry about.

They should at least make a command line argument to set the path so power users will actually use it if they want...

in order to update automatically, it would need to run a service in the background regularly checking for updates and updating if needed - that would use up processing power, drain battery, use up bandwidth, etc. It could just notify you if a new version if out when you launch 7zip, but it would still need to ping out to a server on program launch to do that.

The beauty of 7zip is that is does none of that. It is as minimalistic as possible, and therefore can be used by organizations without a ton of security issues (this time being an exception). Anything that pings out to the internet is a much bigger threat though, and the more complex a program is - the more issues it can cause. 7zip is a simple program that does it's job.

If you want these programs to auto-update, i suggest checking out https://ninite.com/ - it packages a bunch of common windows apps together, and can keep them updated for you!

I have been using nana zip since before others started recommending it, (I had found it looking through github) and haven't had any crashes or instabilities. Nanazip can be found here(GitHub) and here (MSStore)

(shameless self promotion incoming)

Here is my game I recently published to the Xbox One via the Creator's Collection:

https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9mtp8951hqnc

The WPDev subreddit is the place to get help with developing UWP apps (which is what you need to use to develop for the Xbox One Creator's Collection).

I'm working on a guide for building and publishing UWP for Xbox One, but I don't know how long it will take me to complete. There are a few gotchas, and Microsoft's documentation is a bit lacking in detail.

Hi u/ambassodortim, did you notice any patterns in the crash? Like, does it happen after any specific actions or a certain amount of time, or is it random? Also, how long has this specific issue has been going on?

Install the beta from here. If the crash happens in the beta, there should be an error message the next time you launch it. Take a pic of the error and send it to me. If it crashes and there's no error message, let me know. If the beta version doesn't crash at all, still let me know (though it honestly would be really unfortunate if it doesn't crash).

&nbsp;

EDIT: I think I may have identified the issue. If you're getting this crash, install myTube Beta from here and wait for the 3.1.3 update this Wednesday or Thursday.

I recently added a caching mechanism to the app, which is constantly saving and deleting files from device storage as the app runs, sometimes dealing with up to 500 files at a time. The app is still works fine for me, and this caching has worked fine on PC & mobile for over 2 years in older versions of myTube, so I can't be 100% sure this is the cause. However, dealing with so many files at once seems like the exact kind of a thing a gaming console isn't really set up to handle.

We're on version 0.1.0 doing this in the open. We'd love your suggestions and feedback: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/new/choose

I would recommend to download the drivers you need from the websites of the manufacturers of your devices. You can find most of them from the mobo manufacturers page anyway.

If you want to save time installing software I would recommend https://ninite.com/

https://ninite.com/ literally the first website I open on a newly installed computer. Creates a bulk installer that runs without user interaction. I know it's not the free stuff OP meant, but it is a neat tool to download stuff and costs nothing so it qualifies IMO.

pro tip: Log on to the admin account when you set a computer up, then you have all the rights you want without extra clicks.

Also consider https://ninite.com/ it makes setting up other peoples computers easy enough.

I use https://ninite.com/ which will autodownload software from the developer/company site.

Hopefully the Win10 package manager does well because I would love auto-updated/auto-installed software. Aptitude and Yum have spoiled me.

Here's what I did when I upgraded my CPU+Mobo this weekend

• Drivers + Chipset + Bios first and foremost. Get everything up to date
• Configure fan curves and temperature monitoring. Any fans connected to mobo should be configured in BIOS. HWInfo is great for monitoring.
• Uninstall/remove unnecessary features/apps. e.g: Candy Crush, Allowing Windows Remote Assist Connections, etc.
• Do some stress testing / benchmarks to ensure fan curve and system is operating as expected following debloat (e.g: Doesn't hit throttle temps)
• Reconfigure hard drives as needed. This is usually just renaming/relettering, and maybe restoring some backed up content
• Load up ninite.com and run through the software I always need. Spotify, VLC, Steam, Handbrake, Discord, 7Zip, Spotify, etc
• Review apps set to launch on startup and ensure we're running only the essentials (stuff you need/want always running)
• Realize I forgot a cable / IO shield / etc and make a hard decision on how lazy I'm feeling. Last build was the IO shield, this build is the RGB Cable for the AMD Cooler (Being lazy for now because the default RGB scheme looks fine)
• Ensure my monitors are running at 144Hz - Important step. They almost always default to 60hz. Display Settings -> Advanced Display Settings -> Display Adapter Properties -> Monitor -> Screen refresh rate dropdown
• Run through my gaming benchmarks to confirm everything looks good. Basically just booting up my more demanding games and making sure they're stable. Witcher 3 is a nice stable game for testing loading lots of assets, hairworks, etc
• Share photos with buddies + admire the rig

Enjoy the new build! It's a great feeling when it all finally comes together

Ninite

&#x200B;

Mi ha cambiato la vita, non ironicamente, quando lavoravo come riparatore di computer. Puoi scaricare un sacco di programmi, basta selezionarli dall'elenco, lui ti tira fuori un eseguibile che senza pubblicità o click vari ti scarica ed installa tutti i programmi che avevi scelto, all'ultima versione disponibile e in lingua di sistema. Utilissimo anche il fatto che se tieni quell'eseguibile, puoi aggiornare i programmi senza toccare altro, fa tutto da solo... Troppo comodo tbh.

1. Ninite

2. Import/Export Chrome passwords

3. Windows should find most of your drivers. Yes, always best to grab the latest packages from your manufatuers websites. At least audit what you have installed from Device Manager and go from there.

4. No need to worry about SSD drivers. No drivers for cooler or RAM. There could be something software specific to control the LEDs.

Edit: For optimal transfer speeds, download the Samsung NVMe Driver as suggested by /u/aeniklast