TechSpot, a favorite tech-info clearinghouse of mine, has a nice post on Ninite.

Ninite will auto-magically load up a variety of freeware software applications so you don’t have to mess with it. This is especially handy if you install a new operating system - say, Windows 7.

(I am a big fan of Windows 7 - terrific operating system. See my many posts on this blog for details, and there will be much more to come.)

Ninite is actually a service; go to their site at http://ninite.com/, choose what you want to load, and let it get started. You don’t get all the customization you may prefer, but no matter how you cut it, Ninite saves time. Lots of time.

Ninite

I recently made use of Ninite on a fresh Windows 7 install and found it to be very helpful.

We’ll call Ninite “Recommended”.