Ninite?

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Who uses it?

I'm about to re-install windows 7 and my friend showed me this, it looks cool, but should it be trusted?

Your thoughts will be very appreciated! :D
 
Used it many times before. Great for 1 off installs etc. If you are doing on mass, then look at using a Deployment Service, but thats different entirely. Ninite is pretty useful, and I've never had any problems with it :)
 
It does help greatly, as just tell it what to install, and it manages the lot.

It knows for example, if you are installing IE and Flash add-in, it will make sure IE install is completed first, before installing Flash etc. Its the little things that make Ninite very helpful, as well as downloading everything in order, then just ploughing through the installs :)
 
I always forget what it's called..

I tend to use my own bat file method of installing things, I keep an up to date bat file with all the exe's in one folder.
 
I use it at work and roll it out using Active Directory to update all our machines. Works like a treat. Only issue I ever had with it, is when it updated Adobe Reader last time it put it on startup for over 530 machines. Was a fun time going around taking it back of startup lol.
 
bledd. said:
I always forget what it's called..

I tend to use my own bat file method of installing things, I keep an up to date bat file with all the exe's in one folder.
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Could you share this method?

I do a lot of reinstalls and it would be quicker than redownloding the .exe's everytime i do a reinstall.
 
jamesfreddie said:
Could you share this method?

I do a lot of reinstalls and it would be quicker than redownloding the .exe's everytime i do a reinstall.
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make a file called installer.bat in notepad and put in the below depending wether you want it to run in background or foreground or whether your installers are .exe or .msi files.

@Echo off
start /wait "" firefox.msi /passive
start /wait "" office.exe
start /wait "" chrome.exe/quiet

 
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basically I put all the EXE or MSI files in one folder..


IE on usb stick, F:\Installers\

Then I google "silent install 'programName'"

It'll tell you the switches you need


Then you open Notepad, type in the code, save it as 'installer.bat' (not .bat.txt), then double click the bat file to test it.


echo Insatlling CCleaner
ccsetup325_slim.exe /S
echo Installing Flash IE
install_flash_player_11_active_x.exe -install
echo Installing Flash Mozilla
install_flash_player_11_plugin.exe -install

That would install CCleaner, Flash for IE, Flash for Firefox

Each type of installer has it's own 'switches'

For Ccleaner, the /S makes it a 'silent' install
For flash it uses -install as a silent install

I also use a few other cleanup things at the end to delete shortcuts that I don't want etc..

if exist "%public%\Desktop\CCleaner.lnk" del /Q "%public%\Desktop\CCleaner.lnk"
if exist "%allusersprofile%\Desktop\CCleaner.lnk" del /Q "%allusersprofile%\Desktop\CCleaner.lnk"
if exist "%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ccleaner" rd /S /Q "%programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ccleaner"
if exist "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\CCleaner" rd /S /Q "%allusersprofile%\Start Menu\Programs\CCleaner"
reg delete "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\shell\Run CCleaner" /f
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That removes the shortcuts for ccleaner, and the 'run' shortcut from the recycle bin

So my two methods of running ccleaner are..

right click recycle bin, click 'open ccleaner'
start, run, ccleaner
 
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bledd. said:
basically I put all the EXE or MSI files in one folder..


IE on usb stick, F:\Installers\

Then I google "silent install 'programName'"

It'll tell you the switches you need


Then you open Notepad, type in the code, save it as 'installer.bat' (not .bat.txt), then double click the bat file to test it.


echo Insatlling CCleaner
ccsetup325_slim.exe /S
echo Installing Flash IE
install_flash_player_11_active_x.exe -install
echo Installing Flash Mozilla
install_flash_player_11_plugin.exe -install

That would install CCleaner, Flash for IE, Flash for Firefox
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I will try that.

Thanks for the help.
 
kitkat9933 said:
I use it at work and roll it out using Active Directory to update all our machines. Works like a treat. Only issue I ever had with it, is when it updated Adobe Reader last time it put it on startup for over 530 machines. Was a fun time going around taking it back of startup lol.
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You should have used a bat file to remove it!
 
Ninite is excellent for updating flash etc on systems that people don't bother to keep up to date - it also helps to avoid accidental installations of crapware such as the Ask toolbar etc that get bundled with things like Java.
 
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