In Practice – Download and Install Multiple Software at Once with Ninite

If you are familiar with Windows computers, you know how tedious it is to install your favorite software one after the other. Ninite optimizes the installation of some free software with just a few clicks. Demonstration.

After installing a fresh new Windows, you probably spend some time customizing your environment by downloading and installing your favorite software. It’s long and rather uninteresting. If you mainly use open source or free software, the Ninite site could save you some ever-valuable time. The operation is very simple and very fast.

Select your apps

Go to https://ninite.com and select the software you want to install from the list provided. You will find the main internet browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, but not Brave…) as well as useful utilities for compressing/decompressing files (7zip, WinRAR), processing multimedia documents (VLC, Audacity, Handbrake. ..), chat with friends or colleagues (Zoom, Discord, Skype…), create or edit images (Blender, Krita, GIMP…) or manage your mail or accounts (LibreOffice, Foxit Reader… ). If the choice is not very wide, it is sufficient to configure computers for general purpose use. When you’re done shopping, just click Get your Ninite.

An application then loads on the computer, and all that remains is to double click on the software to launch the operation. Ninite then takes care of everything, on her own. It downloads the software in French if they are available and manages the installation like a grown-up without asking you for validation. Convenient and fast.

If Ninite is free, its big brother, Ninite Pro, offers an extensive paid service. Indeed, the latter makes it possible to manage a fleet of computers to carry out maintenance remotely via a web interface.